2012-01-12T11:47:00.000-08:00

Brad Rose is a Boston-based writer. His poetry and fiction appear in print and on-line.

"Honey Gets Her Wish," and "The Locksmith's Touch" appear in the poetry journal Third Wednesday, Fall, 2011. "Slash and Burn" appears in the January, 2012 issue of Old Dominion University's, Barely South Review. "Dark House," is forthcoming in the March, 2012 sleetmagazine.com . "Pink X-Ray" will appear in the 2012 issue of the Santa Fe Literary Review. "Lost at Sea" will appear in the Feb 1, 2012 issue of The Molotov Cocktail.

Two poems, "Tehachapi Seven Eleven," and "Foreclosure" appear at cur.ren.cy: poetry and prose for hard times in January, 2012. "Burnt Ghosts" appears in the Fall, 2011 issue of the San Pedro River Review. "Second Mate "appeared in Flashshot in August, 2011. "Resurrection" and "Oh, How I Almost Loved You," are at Right Hand Pointing July, 2011. "My Assassination," appears in the Fall, 2011 (No. 44) issue of Right Hand Pointing. "Last Night at the Holiday Inn," appears at Molotov Cocktail Vol 2, No 16, November, 2011.

"Innumerate Polygamist," appears at Monkeybicycle. The prose poem "Clown Car," is in the Summer, 2011 special issue of Sleetmagazine.com."Dark Matter" is at Staccato Microfiction (Spring 2011, #22). "Rattlers" was published in the Spring, 2011 issue of The Potomac. The flash fiction vignette, "Spikes" and the poem "Second Cousins" appear in the Summer Bloomsday Issue, #19, of riverbabble. "Blue Blind," a "drabble" (an exactly 100-word fiction piece,) about Vladimir Nabokov, is in the Summer, 2011 issue of Boston Literary Magazine.

"A Passenger," appears in the Spring, 2011 edition of San Pedro River Review. "Bull-Leaping to Bach Cantata No. 54 (Stand Firm Against Sin.)" is published in the June 1st, 2011 issue of Molotov Cocktail.

Two flash fiction pieces, "Fresh Kindling," and "Waltz" appear in the Slam and Flash issue of The Legendary. "Desert Newlyweds," is published in the "Harsh Mathematics" issue #40, of Right Hand Pointing, March, 2011. Three poems, “Departure,” "Waiting Room View," and “In the Jardin du Luxembourg, Amid the Little Pink Roses of Spring, Monsieur Zero Disappears,” are published by Centrifugal Eye. "Missing Data," appears in Indigo Risings Surreal Minimalist Contest edition, March, 2011.

"Makes No Difference," appears at Molotov Cocktail, Vol. 1 #23. Two flash fiction stories, "La-Z-Boy at Gunpoint,"and "Siren's Celebration" recently were featured at Fiction at Work. The brief fiction piece,"Clown Art," appeared at MuDJoB on December 8th, 2010. "Arrow of Time" also appears at MuDJoB, in April 2011.

The poem "Alien Territory" is at Folded Word. A small poemette of less than 140 characters, "Anonymous Source," is published at unFold (April 13, 2011)
The poem, "Late Fall," appears in the anthology, Deadlier Than Thou from Short, Fast, and Deadly.

The short prose poem, "Einstein's Random House" appears in the February 24th issue of Calliope Nerve. The poem "The Liberation of the Knife Thrower's Daughter," appears in Right Hand Pointing #33, Summer, 2010. "Rouge Canoe," appears in the Summer 2010 edition of Off the Coast. " Loaded," appears at Fiction At Work on September 8, 2010. "Capsized," appears at Short, Fast,and Deadly. "How I Shot My First Husband" appears in Right Hand Pointing #34, August, 2010. "Almost Like Fun" and "Mannequin in Love" appear in the October, 2010 Issue (no. 36) of Right Hand Pointing. "The Scream" appears in Blue Print Review, August 2010, Issue#25. "Blood Type," is published in Six Little Things, No. 20, Fall, 2010.

"Poor Billy Couldn't Count, Either" appears at Staccato Fiction. The one sentence "story,"Three Months Later, Note for My Ransom, Still Unpaid" appears at Monkeybicycle.

The poem “Tattoo Lover” appears in the anthology Imagination and Place, Winter, 2010. "Snowman" appears in the Winter, 2010 edition of Off the Coast. "Hang Nails" appears in Six Sentence Review Vol. 1, January, 2010. "She Wore Next to Nothing," was published in The Love Book, February, 2010. "Don Juan On-Line," appears in Pow Fast Flash Fiction, January, 2010. The flash fiction story, "Lost His Shirt" appears in the book, Word of Mouth.

"Sea to Shining Sea" and "Having the Time of My Life, for Free,"appear in Boston Literary Magazine, Summer, 2010. "Kiss" recently appeared at unFold in June, 2010.

The flash fiction piece, "Two Buds at Cotillion,"appears in the Spring edition 2010 Sleetmagazine.com. The poem "March Snow at Arlington," is published in Third Wednesday, Winter 2009-2010. The nano fiction piece "One Dream, Maybe Two," is in Blink Ink #2. "Poetry is a Crime" appears at Gloom Cupboard.

"Leaving Camarillo State Hospital" FutureCycle Poetry Number 4, 2009 and in Future Cycle Poetry Anthology 2009. “The Scream,” appeared in Tattoo Highway #18, Spring, 2009 and is republished in the August, 2010 issue of BluePrintReview. "San Andreas Fault" appears in the Fall/Winter, 2009 issue of Sleetmagazine.com

"Daddy Longlegs," "That Crazy Little Thing Called Love,”"Adam's BBQ'd Ribs," and "An Apostate Visits the Temple of the Buddha," appear in the Summer, 2009 edition of Boston Literary Magazine.

The poem “Clown Car,” appeared in the Spring/Summer 2007, Up and Under/QND Review. “Pink Crab Spider Eats Bee,” appeared in Getting Something Read, in April, 2008.

The poems Courthouse Elevator, Machines in Love, and Skeleton Lover, are viewable at SpokenWar.

Recent flash fictions pieces, including,
“The Tourist” “Seven Husbands Later,”“Albert Failed,” "Horoscope", "Shaving Mirror", Designated Driver, and Freud's Dentist are all published by Six Sentences.

"Zombie Day,""Shakespeare Expropriated," and "Gangsta Mama," appear at Blink Ink.

"Obituary" appears in the January, 2010 edition of Monkeybicycle and "Rationale" appears in the March, 2010 edition.

“She Loved Richard,” “E-mail Lovers,” “Battle of Statistics,” “Failure to Communicate,” "Middle-Aged Tiki Dance," and other flash fiction pieces have been published by Espresso Stories.

Brad’s flash fiction blog--over 400 six-sentence stories-- is at Six Sentences

His tragicomic novel, written in brief six-sentence chapters, is in progress at Lola Loves Richard

Six-word "masterpieces" may be read at SMITH Magazine

"Lost His Shirt" by Brad Rose appeared in Word of Mouth edited by Robert McEvily, 2010

2011-07-25T07:49:00.000-07:00

My car’s headlights pierce twin tunnels into the night’s remote darkness, as the rain stabs down, its bright pins glittering toward God’s paved earth. Nothing ahead, but the promise of heavy weather for hours to come, and two-lane tarmac interrupted by the stutter of a white center line. Suddenly, the high-beams sweep a half-naked man, shirtless, running at the side of this otherwise vacant road. As I approach him, I slow down, but he doesn’t look up, he doesn’t pause, he just keeps running---towards or away---it’s impossible to say. I ease past him, and a half mile later, I glimpse a white Ford, empty as an abandoned prison readied for demolition, tilted on the side of the road. Windows rolled down, rain pouring in, no telling how much has been lost, or just who, if anyone, managed to escape.

Snowman

2011-07-22T17:47:00.000-07:00

Black button eyes
Blind as a stump,
two rolled bellies
crammed tight with ice,
your chalk white skin
fell out of the sky
into a world of another’s making.
A single element is the God you know.
Now that you’re here,
what pleasure is yours?

Tonight is darker than the rest,
its chill relief soothes
your bitter, blue ache.
Hold me tenderly in your arms
until the wind tears down your knife-drawn smile,
until you’ve seen through this white-dark world.

Off the Coast, Winter 2010

Six Sentences: Shaving Mirror

2009-08-16T17:25:00.000-07:00

Six Sentences: Shaving Mirror

Six Sentences: Horoscope

2009-07-03T06:36:00.000-07:00

Six Sentences: Horoscope