2019-06-13 03:47
Written in the form of an open letter Justin, Writers are the worst judges of their work. What they love, others might hate. What triggers indifference in them might incite fervent admiratio… Read More
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Writings and Musings by Author Daulton Dickey
2019-01-01 02:36
by Daulton Dickey The power of the human imagination lies not in its ability to represent events but in its ability to exaggerate them. Such exaggerations give birth to absurdity, which, whe… Read More
2018-09-14 10:50
by Nicholas Day [Here’s a short story from Nicholas Day’s collection, Now That We’re Alone. Out now.] Nobody can deny the existence of ghosts if they possess that thing cal… Read More
2018-09-13 00:39
by TerriLynn Le Blanc “Can anyone tell me what I’m supposed to do with this?” she asked, her hands holding a bloody, beating object veins still attached deep into her chest… Read More
2018-09-12 10:45
by Ben Arzate Since my first book (excluding a chapbook of poetry I self-published), a short story collection called The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Saying Goodbye, is coming out soon, a… Read More
2018-08-27 15:40
by Daulton Dickey The face fit his skull so the goblin never removed it He tapped it from time to time to make Sure it still fit Few thoughts startled him more than when the image Of a fadin… Read More
2018-08-26 19:52
Starting today, if you buy Flesh Made World, and prove it, I’ll send you two free ebooks. Click here to Buy Flesh Made World from Amazon Click here to buy it from Barnes & Noble Read More
2018-08-15 10:40
by Daulton Dickey A panther stalked through a clearing, surveying its surroundings. It glanced at the sky as it sauntered forward. What joys a bird must experience. The beauty must dazzle it… Read More
2018-08-07 10:50
by Daulton Dickey. One of the archetypes of les enfants terribles of the arts, seemingly devoid of impulse control, young Arthur Rimbaud exhibited vice, vileness, debauchery, and madness. Al… Read More
2018-08-02 10:55
by Daulton Dickey I’ve vilified the space between my eyes and my face The soft-boiled sky sheds purple hues on the city, On two clowns with pool-cue eyes rubbing through crowds clottin… Read More
2018-08-01 10:20
by Daulton Dickey Part III [Click here to read Part I and here for Part II] I. Creatures stalk everyone. Always. They haunt and infect us. My creature, an amorphous mist, Slithers near the g… Read More
2018-07-30 22:40
by Daulton Dickey. I can’t escape low-paying jobs. No matter how long I stare at the horizon, I don’t see mountains protruding and growing and replacing clusters of trees. My nam… Read More
2018-07-25 19:11
I’ll be back on track next week with new articles, essays, and poems. My hours changed at work and I’ve been locked in a deep depression, so writing is slow right now. I hope you… Read More
2018-07-18 16:50
by Daulton Dickey You, to whom I’m speaking: ants and maggots writhe on a rectangle made from bones. Blood fills the gaps between them, and a square filled with bile sits in the upperm… Read More
2018-07-12 01:48
For Ovid by Daulton Dickey. After the clouds parted and dried up, the sky pointed its bluish mirror at the ground, At two people—a man and a woman—tossing rocks behind them. They… Read More
2018-07-09 03:24
by Daulton Dickey. Salvador Dali swore he remembered life inside the womb. He called his recollections “intra-uterine” memories. Two images he claims to have seen inside the room… Read More
2018-07-05 04:06
by Daulton Dickey Textures on its shell casting macrocosmic crescent moons, Colored with a gradient shifting from black to gray, The egg lies on its side, casting a shadow onto the red table… Read More
2018-07-03 15:46
In planning the articles for the week, it failed to occur to me that this is the week of the 4th of July here in the states, so I’m postponing publishing new articles until next week… Read More
2018-06-27 15:44
by Daulton Dickey. Part I 1. Night spills from the yolk of the sun and sprays shadows and darkness across the city. Chrome beasts slither up and down the road, screeching and roaring. I star… Read More
2018-06-25 13:41
by Ben Arzate. “Language is a trap. To deny the existence of whatever. A melancholy enticement. Like balloons. Language is a fucking disaster. I’m unsure of how to birth the part… Read More
2018-06-23 13:23
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2018-06-19 18:57
by Daulton Dickey. Surrealist Daulton Dickey lives with his wife, kids, and pet human-lizard hybrid in a universe he created. He’s the author of Elegiac Machinations, Basta… Read More
2018-04-26 02:03
Legendary in the underground for more than a decade, the controversial novel is now in print. Sentient meat covers the world. Veins fill the bloodred sky. People transform into monsters call… Read More
2018-01-03 16:45
by Daulton Dickey. Decoupled from Reality At some point, severe anxiety decouples you from reality. Psychologists refer to it as derealization. As someone who’s experienced such a stat… Read More
2018-01-03 16:40
by Andre Breton. So strong is the belief in life, in what is most fragile in life – real life, I mean – that in the end this belief is lost. Man, that inveterate dreamer, daily m… Read More
2018-01-03 10:58
by Daulton Dickey. —So tell me why you’re here. —I’m tired. Not exhausted, but … just, I don’t know, tired. Sarah’s wearing that gray face sad peop… Read More
2018-01-01 19:23
Rooster Republic Press https://roosterrepublicpress.com/ For Immediate Release Review Copies for Flesh Made World, an experimental novel by Daulton Dickey, Now Available Death surrounds Sara… Read More
2017-12-31 19:06
Click here to read an excerpt “Daulton Dickey’s ‘Flesh Made World’ is a glorious mindfuck. The eloquence of Dickey’s writing style consumed me like a dru… Read More
2017-12-29 01:42
#1 Andy Kaufman and the Physics of Human Response #2 Andy Kaufman: Architect of Reality #3 Tyler Returned, a Story By Jessica McHugh #4 Interstellar Space: When Music Hurts #5 Banished from… Read More
2017-12-28 01:06
# 1 In a Psych Ward on Suicide Watch: A True Story #2 How Misogynists Think: Confessions of a Former Misogynist #3 Gustave Courbet and the Origin of the World #4 Afarin Sajedi: The Paintings… Read More
2017-12-23 00:19
by Daulton Dickey. Few things are worse than poverty. Struggling to make ends meet from week to week, month to month takes a toll on you, both mentally and physically. Stress and anxiety cor… Read More
2017-12-20 04:55
Due to elevated anxiety levels and the stress of the approaching holidays, I’m taking a hiatus this week. I hope to return to form soon. Thanks for visiting the site and reading the ar… Read More
2017-12-18 12:05
About the book: Death surrounds Sarah and Daulton. While grieving for their loved ones, they each must navigate a universe where time isn’t linear, where memories and fantasies collide… Read More
2017-12-18 12:00
by Daulton Dickey. 1. Cracking an egg always produces something worth sharing. Sometimes it’s worth eating, sometimes it’s worth serving to others, and sometimes it produces a de… Read More
2017-12-15 12:15
by Daulton Dickey. Some say Swiss-born performance artist Milo Moiré is a provocateur without a point, a nudist more suitable for Instagram than the art world. Her critics have denoun… Read More
2017-12-15 12:10
by Daulton Dickey. Encountering lobster- or lizard-human hybrids occurs frequently when you’re an imagination masquerading as meat. I bumped into one or the other at least once a day;… Read More
2017-12-15 12:00
by Daulton Dickey. Empty and broken It all falls down Empty and broken, the city streets evacuated with a sense of calm. Everything shattered. Glass lay like snowflakes, in piles tall as peo… Read More
2017-12-11 12:10
by Daulton Dickey. (Note: This is the latest installment of an ongoing column. Click here to the index for previous installments.) I was working the counter when some old knucklehead sa… Read More
2017-12-11 12:00
by Daulton Dickey. Ryder Collins’s novel, Homegirl!, (click here to read an excerpt) is one of the best books you’ve never read. It’s intimate and obscene, profound and pro… Read More
2017-12-08 12:05
by Daulton Dickey. “There is a place of fertile tension between desire and consciousness, between looking out at the world and looking back in to the self,” artist Heather Sheeha… Read More
2017-12-08 12:00
by Daulton Dickey. Since their inception as on-screen personas, the Marx Brothers appealed to surrealists. Antonin Artaud hailed “the powerful, total, definitive and absolute originali… Read More
2017-12-06 12:10
by Daulton Dickey. It confused her whenever it happened. And it was at least partly confusing because she couldn’t always anticipate when it would happen. Sometimes a chill curled her… Read More
2017-12-06 12:00
by Phoenix Rises. I enjoy the show, Teen Wolf. Watching the show and becoming a fan was actually an accident, a strange mis-recollection of (past) memory. Basically what happened was, it was… Read More
2017-12-06 02:01
by Daulton Dickey. Daulton Dickey is a novelist, poet, and content creator currently living in Indiana with his wife and kids. He’s the author of A Peculiar Arr… Read More
2017-12-04 12:00
by Jessica McHugh. “Janie, will you please eat something? Please? Maybe later, okay? Are you comfortable? Would you like a blanket? You look cold, Janie. Are you cold? Do you need a bl… Read More
2017-12-04 11:45
by Daulton Dickey. So I’m sitting in my car outside the emergency room, windows down, smoking a cigarette. Signs every ten feet or so declare this property smoke free, but for the amou… Read More
2017-12-04 00:39
by Daulton Dickey. It always rains ashes when the city’s on fire. Another weekend when the sky’s falling. Someone somewhere screams. Standing in a dark room, I wrap my fingers ar… Read More
2017-12-01 12:20
by Daulton Dickey. Let’s get the point out of the way first, then expand on it: memoirs are works of fiction. Specifically, memoirs as artifacts of “truth” or “realit… Read More
2017-11-30 12:10
by Daulton Dickey. Psychopath, madman, degenerate, depraved, rapist, monster—you can find dozens of adjectives to describe Marquis de Sade, and most fit. The man responsible for the wo… Read More
2017-11-30 12:00
by Franz Kafka. Translated by Ian Johnston “It’s a peculiar apparatus,” said the Officer to the Traveler, gazing with a certain admiration at the device, with which he was… Read More
2017-11-30 11:50
by Frank Kafka. Translated by Ian Johnston Before the law sits a gatekeeper. To this gatekeeper comes a man from the country who asks to gain entry into the law. But the gatekeeper says that… Read More
2017-11-29 12:40
by Daulton Dickey. Born in 1979 and currently living in Tehran, Iran, artist Afarin Sajedi creates haunting yet vivid surreal works. She often depicts close-ups of people—usually women… Read More
2017-11-29 11:40
by Justin Burnett. In my later teens, I happened across John Coltrane’s album Interstellar Space while sifting through neat rows of CD jewel cases in a Half-Priced Books. I almost coul… Read More
2017-11-27 11:10
My Adventures in Unemployment, Underemployment, and Bipolar Disorder, Part 6 Read More
2017-11-27 11:00
by Daulton Dickey. “If we consume the product as product, we consume its meaning through advertising. Let us imagine for a moment modern cities stripped of all their signs, with walls… Read More
2017-11-26 03:55
by Daulton Dickey. I’m depressed. I don’t want to get out of bed. When I do, I sometimes have to persuade myself that life’s worth living. I have a wife and kids—they… Read More
2017-11-26 01:21
*fixed Daulton Dickey is a novelist, poet, and content creator currently living in Indiana with his wife and kids. He’s the author of A Peculiar Arrangement of Atoms:… Read More
2017-11-26 00:04
ex·is·ten·tial·ism ˌeɡzəˈsten(t)SHəˌlizəm/ noun noun: existentialism A philosophical theory or approach that emphasizes th… Read More
2017-11-25 00:37
by Daulton Dickey. Daulton Dickey is a novelist, poet, and content creator currently living in Indiana with his wife and kids. He’s the author of A Peculiar Arrangemen… Read More
2017-11-24 18:43
Why the far right figure in Francis Bacon’s Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion is screaming Read More
2017-11-24 14:46
Off and On the Road or, How I Got Stoned and Became a Literary Junky by Daulton Dickey. [Author’s note: this is an old piece, written about 7 years ago. I recently re-discovered it and… Read More
2017-11-23 23:39
“Like David Lynch, Daulton Dickey has found a language to articulate the obscenity of the unreal, itself the confluence of the perversion of capitalism and the seduction of technology… Read More
2017-11-22 20:57
by Justin Burnett. Possession is a strange concept. Like many of the categorizations we use to piece together what roughly might be called our social existence, possession is marked more by… Read More
2017-11-20 12:30
by Justin Burnett. Discussing horror as a literary genre proves to be an exceedingly difficult undertaking. A reader familiar with contemporary horror writers will undoubtedly protest agains… Read More
2017-11-20 12:00
My Adventures in Unemployment, Underemployment, and Bipolar Disorder Read More
2017-11-17 12:00
by Daulton Dickey. What is Perversion? When we hear the words “pervert” or “perversion,” we tend to think of them in terms of sexual deviancy. As with most words, &ld&hell…Read More
2017-11-17 11:30
The Street Kid: A Beautiful Journey by Phoenix Rises. The street kid has been a prominent metaphor throughout my fiction, and there is a reason for this. In fact one could argue, I am The St… Read More
2017-11-15 11:30
Andy Kaufman understood the concept of persona and the games we play, and he used his understanding to manipulate people.… Continue reading → Read More
2017-11-13 12:00
My Adventures in Unemployment, Underemployment, and Bipolar Disorder, Part 4… Continue reading → Read More
2017-11-13 11:30
by Michele McDannold. Thank you for the best childhood ever for the nicely manicured lawns dutifully tended to every Sunday after church for the sun tea baking on the porch and the strawberr… Read More
2017-11-12 16:10
by Daulton Dickey. Surrealism encompassed a variety of media and artists of all kinds, many of whom found a place in the Modern Art canon. Some artists, such as Dali and Magritte, produced i… Read More
2017-11-10 11:35
by Daulton Dickey. “My passion was dead. For years it had rolled over and submerged me[…]” –Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea 1. Suicides aren’t always dissatisfied wit… Read More
2017-11-08 11:30
A Dialectic in Defense of Experimental Narratives through the Study of Slaughterhouse-Five and Paris Peasant… Continue reading → Read More
2017-11-08 11:00
by Daulton Dickey. In Amerika by Franz Kafka, the character Karl Rossman is shipped away to America by his parents following a scandal with a servant girl. From hotel employee to bum to serv… Read More
2017-11-07 01:07
A writer's adventures in unemployment, underemployment, and bipolar disorder… Continue reading → Read More
2017-11-06 12:30
The 3rd installment in a series about Unemployment, Underemployment, and Bipolar Disorder.… Continue reading → Read More
2017-11-06 11:30
by Ryder Collins. Of all her boyfriends or pseudo-boyfriends or even friends, Homegirl liked to hang at Punkboy’s house the most. For a dirty punk rock boy covered in tatts who didn&rs&hell…Read More
2017-11-04 11:46
Notes on an Essay Concerning Writing, Performing, and the Nature of Reality… Continue reading → Read More
2017-11-03 11:00
by Daulton Dickey. Courbet and the Academy In France in the nineteenth century, an elite group dictated art. The Academy, as it’s known in English, held strict ideas about art–al… Read More
2017-11-02 00:37
2017-11-01 11:25
by D. Cay. Uproot cultural norms. If something is considered “common sense,” then you should ridicule or satirize it. Target modesty and decency. Celebrate obscenit… Read More
2017-11-01 10:40
by Daulton Dickey. Gonzalo lives a strange existence. Like his parents before him, he’s a cemetery man. Stuck in rut, Gonzalo wants something more. Bitter at his lot, he stumbles throu… Read More
2017-10-31 03:55
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2017-10-30 11:00
by Daulton Dickey. (This is the second installment of a series, previously titled Notes of a Miserable Fuck. Click here for the first part.) e. I’m never more conscious of my financial… Read More
2017-10-30 10:00
by Justin Burnett. There’s dark music and then there’s dark music. When dark music is brought up in a conventional setting, it’s safe to assume that albums like Depeche Mod… Read More
2017-10-28 04:28
A reformed misogynist shows how misogynists think and how to identify misogyny in our culture.… Continue reading → Read More
2017-10-27 11:00
by Phoenix. Any account of philosophical history and the important works produced is bound to be not only non-definitive and incomplete, but also unsatisfying. This is because philosophy is… Read More
2017-10-27 10:00
by Daulton Dickey. H.R. Boldwood is a writer of horror and speculative fiction. In another incarnation, Boldwood is a Pushcart Prize nominee and was awarded the 2009 Bilbo Award for creative… Read More
2017-10-25 11:00
by Daulton Dickey. The third season of Rick and Morty, Adult Swim’s surreal and absurd animated sitcom, recently completed its run. One of the most anticipated shows of the past s… Read More
2017-10-25 10:00
by Daulton Dickey. I came across Graeme Jukes’s mixed media on Ello. The images immediately arrested me. Steeped in early 20th century avant-garde movements, especially the Dadaists, h… Read More
2017-10-24 11:25
Andy Kaufman was more than an entertainer. He was an architect of reality.… Continue reading → Read More
2017-10-23 11:35
by Daulton Dickey. Kelly Kyv is an artist whose works you won’t see plastered in magazines or online—to the detriment of lovers of strange, quirky, absurdist art. Now a resident… Read More
2017-10-23 10:00
The failing health of fiction.… Continue reading → Read More
2017-10-23 02:29
Although we usually publish new material on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we’re breaking the routine this Tuesday to publish the first of many features about Andy Kaufman. Rem… Read More
2017-10-22 13:42
by Daulton Dickey. Darkness lingers everywhere in this world. One way or the other, it will find you. Some of us are prepared for it while it blindsides others. The world itself is dark, fil… Read More
2017-10-20 12:00
The first part of a series about living in poverty and coping with mental illness in modern America.… Continue reading → Read More
2017-10-20 11:00
An interview with multifaceted writer Jessica McHugh.… Continue reading → Read More
2017-10-18 10:50
by Daulton Dickey. Words are elusive bastards.They disappear the moment you think you’ve wrangled them. Two words float in conjunction with a clause: you see them, reach for them, groa… Read More
2017-10-18 09:45
by John Livelsberger. (Hammond, IN) With an infectious smile Martin Navejas, Photo: John M. Livelsberger Martin Navejas greeted us at the entrance of the White Ripple Gallery in Hammond. Thi… Read More
2017-10-16 08:45
by Daulton Dickey. Peggy Christie began writing horror in 1999. A member of the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers, she’s written novels and short stories, including The Vessel… Read More
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