Website of surreal-absurd writer Marcus Silcock

Letter of the Week

  • It’s been a nice week for publishing some new microfiction. Broken Antler has just published my fairy tale/mythological story “For the Birds.” You can read the story, along with some other great stories, in the new issue of Broken Antler over here

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  • “I do not like to expose my neck to the barber. My head is full of migratory birds, thinks Kato, walking the dust park remembering the lush fish. On the way to work, a plump man always stopped to ask for loose change. She refused until one day. That one day changed the rest of

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  • I have a new prose poem in the latest issue (number 159) of Right Hand Pointing. Right Hand Pointing is fab minimalist magazine. I have loved the magazine over the years. I am super happy to my new work in there. It is a childhood story. A bit of magic beneath the trees. Check out

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  • I am happy to have a serial prose poem in the new issue of Diagram. Diagram has been around a good while. It was one of my earliest publications in the early part of this century. My earlier work is in issues 3.4 and 4.4. This new work is in issue 25.4. The serial prose

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About Never Mind the Beasts

A website for surreal-absurd microfiction and prose poems, influenced by various art movements of the 20th century, such as Surrealism, Absurdism, Minimalism, New York School Poetics, Naive Art. As well as our day to day existence.