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AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Pieces Sorted by Author
Author Titles
"Q" and "A"
Rant: The Bisexuality FAQ
Abraham Lincoln
Rant: Lincoln's Last Speech
Adam Carl
Fiction: Though I Sleep In Exile
Alison Daniel
Poetry: Eros In Wonderland
Poetry: Odysseus Goes Tripping
Poetry: A Last Violent Test of Faith Under Diocletian
Poetry: Hermes
Poetry: Watering the Moon
Poetry: Moving On
Alma J. Foster
Fiction: Little Wolff's Wooden Shoes
Ambrose Bierce
Fiction: Valuable Advice from Ambrose Bierce
Fiction: More Valuable Advice from Ambrose Bierce
Amy Barbour
Rant: An Argument from the Nonviolent Liberal
Andrew McDevitt
Rant: Punk Lyrics from the Unlikeliest of Places
Andrew Wilson
Fiction: Osai's Razor
Fiction: Matsukaze
Anne Marie Ellison
Rant: Here's What I Hate About Christmas: All the Fucking Naysayers.
Architeuthis dux (the Giant Squid)
Rant: Why I Propose to Wrest Control of This "Almanac(k)" From it's Filthy, Simian Purveyors; How I shall Accomplish the Deed; and How You, the Fair Reader, shall Benefit
Aristotle
Rant: Practical Advice for the Tragic Poet
Aurora Fadlan
Fiction: The Crispin and How She Learned the Secret of Swabian Leather Tanning, part 1 of 2
Fiction: The Crispin and How She Learned the Secret of Swabian Leather Tanning, part 2 of 2
B.R. Dionysius
Poetry: A Very Ugly Australian
Barry Blumenfeld
Poetry: Speedway
Poetry: The Dual
Poetry: The Vision After the Sermon
Poetry: Breasts with Red Flowers
Poetry: Caruso Sings Santa Lucia
Poetry: Independence Day, 1984
Poetry: My War with the Robins
Basho
Poetry: The Monkey's Raincoat
Benjamin Franklin
Rant: A Letter on the subject of DAYLIGHT SAVING To THE AUTHORS of The Journal of Paris
Rant: How I Became a Printer in Philadelphia (from his Autobiography)
Brett Richard Fennessy
Poetry: Getting Free
Poetry: Thoughts at Evening
Poetry: Inside Boxing
Poetry: O-Saru
Poetry: Curriculum
Fiction: All in Good Time
Brian Smith
Rant: Recycled Christmas: One Family's Revolution Against the Shopping Mall
Byron Adams
Poetry: Minivan Crash on I-95
C. Nolan Deweese
Poetry: Trash Day
Cara Jeanne Spindler
Rant: Dear Mr. Brooks:An Open Letter to That Guy Who Wrote That Fucking Article in the Atlantic Monthly
Poetry: Chonchón at Night
Poetry: Gilt Mirrors
Poetry: Tractors I: Plough
Poetry: As the Body Emerged from the Sculptor's Cage
Poetry: Mary Celeste
Poetry: Patagonia Transcript
Catherine Daly
Poetry: Salsa
Charles Hoy Fort
Rant: Showers of Living Things
Rant: Perhaps Hopping Colts From The Book of the Damned
Rant: By Krakatoa From The Book of the Damned
Rant: Two Bodies from Wild Talents
Fiction: The Giant, the Insect, and the Philanthropic-looking Old Gentlemanpart 1
Fiction: The Giant, the Insect, and the Philanthropic-looking Old Gentlemanpart 2
Chris Hebert
Fiction: The Failure of Sainthood among the Damned
Christopher Mulrooney
Poetry: Nue Sue Revue
Claire King
Rant: The Idiot's Guide to Attila the Hun
Clinton Palanca
Rant: On Cheese: A Filipino Restaurateur Reflects on Law and Order
D.C. Fields
Poetry: Switch
Dan Winterstein
Fiction: Mr Lipowicz's Liver
Daphna El-Roy
Poetry: Custom-Made
Poetry: Fire Escape
Poetry: The Piece That Fell Off
Poetry: The Very Last Supper
Poetry: Sideways Shot
Poetry: Cysticercosis
Poetry: Unprivate Death Collection
Poetry: Rain
Poetry: Courage
Poetry: You Are My Playground
David Bricker
Rant: Any Country That Calls It Grog Is OK in My Book
David Erik Nelson
Rant: The Invention of the English
Rant: We Whistlers in the Graveyard
Rant: My Kid Sister Has Cancer
Poetry: Shakespeare's Sonnet #130 on Acid
Poetry: Love Song of T. Alva Edison
Fiction: The Tendency to Draw Together
Fiction: Another Locked Room
Fiction: 1K+1 Astral Nights: Prologue
Fiction: 1K+1 Astral Nights: Cycle 1, Packet 1
Fiction: 1K+1 Astral Nights: Cycle 1, Packet 2
Fiction: 1K+1 Astral Nights: Cycle 1, Packet 3
Fiction: 1K+1 Astral Nights: Cycle 1, Packet 4
Fiction: 1K+1 Astral Nights: Cycle 1, Packet 5
Fiction: 1K+1 Astral Nights: Cycle 1, Packet 6
Fiction: The Gingerbread Man
David Pacheco
Rant: The Last Time I Saw bin Laden
David-Matthew Barnes
Poetry: Shotgun
Dean Bakopoulos
Fiction: Lemonhead
Dr. Jonathan Swift
Rant: A Modest Proposalfor preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick.
EE Böt
Poetry: Three Pithy Poems
Eileen Conner
Poetry: CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE CONGRAT procedure for personal growth
Ellen Hayes
Rant: I Dated a Playboy Playmate
Emily Dickinson
Poetry: Drowning Is Not So Pitiful
Poetry: A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest
Erik Garner Warren
Rant: Mistakes Were Made
Rant: Here's What I Hate About Christmas: All the Fucking Gentiles
Rant: Hobbits Liked to Have Books Filled with Things They Already Knew: Reflections on a Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Rant: Hobbits Liked to Have Books Filled with Things They Already Knew: Further Reflections on a Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Fiction: This Is Not A Story
Francine DuBois
Poetry: President Lincoln Never Wore a Turtleneck Sweater
Franz Kafka
Fiction: The Neighbour
Fritz Swanson
Rant: Trains
Rant: On John Irving
Rant: The Pleasure of Being Downa thirty-three dollar rant
Rant: Living On the Moon
Rant: Nostalgia
Rant: CrapLongStories.com: where publishing might go, you know, maybe
Rant: Train Baron Appointed Treasury Secretary; Collection Of 19th Century Cliches Now Complete
Fiction: The Eighth Lines of Stories Never Written
Fiction: The Inspector After the Death of the Great Detective
Fiction: The Spectators
Fritz Swanson, Editor
Fiction: from the Witch Lake Reader
G. Chartrand and L. Lesniak
Poetry: A Lobster is a Tree
Genevieve Canceko
Fiction: So This Is San Diego
Georgia Blake
Rant: A Rebuttal for the "Airborne Fucking Ranger"
Geronimo
Rant: Geronimo's Mightiest Battle
Rant: Coming of the White Men
Gordon Smith
Rant: Britney Spears has Big Boobs
Rant: Kill! Kill! Kill! No Mercy For the Masses!
Rant: Voting Is For Suckers
Rant: That Was One Boring Apocalypse
Rant: Finland, Finland Uber Alles
Rant: The Retail Manifesto, part two If the Customer is Always Right, You Can Suck My Cock
Rant: 911 or Gulf Wars Chapter II: America Strikes Back
Fiction: Here
Gordon Smith and Erik Garner Warren
Rant: Quite Rich
Herman Melville
Poetry: The Maldive Shark
Irene Tejaratchi
Fiction: Spellman, Bastion of Fine Sartorial Standards
J. Daniel Janzen
Fiction: The Surprise Witness
Fiction: Yours Truly
J.E.C.
Rant: The Problem of Evil
Rant: The Problem of Communism; or Why It's Bad To Have an MBA as President
Rant: Don't Fear the Reefer
Rant: The Madness of King George
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Fiction: The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
James Henry Ingram
Fiction: A.D. 755 From the 1823 translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
James Monteith
Poetry: If The Earth Were a Glass Ball
James P. Miller
Rant: Brittany, We're Coming to Get You
Jason Gurley
Fiction: Of Pocket Knives, Tackle Boxes and Women in Bathing Suits
Jason Kirk
Rant: My, Has She Ever Aged Shamefully
Poetry: Saint Cecilia: World Party Telegramvitætion
Jason Michael
Rant: Why Do All These Bands Have Numbers in Their Names?
Rant: Why Doesn't Anyone Love Me?
Rant: I Have Precious Little Indie Cred
Fiction: A Faster, More Scalable Afterlife
Jeff Garito
Poetry: Boardinghouse Haiku
Jefrey Scattini
Poetry: Friends' Bar
Jennifer Metsker
Poetry: Think Tank
Jeremy Gregersen
Poetry: Familiar
Jerry Vilhotti
Fiction: Deep Purple Dream
Fiction: Eyes of a Dead Man
Jessica Dzwigalski
Rant: Warning: Excessive Use May Result in Loss of Motor Skills
Jim Oliver
Rant: Don't Let Them Kid You, It'll Be Back Next Year.
Jim Ruland
Fiction: Scenes from Being Bill Walton
Jim Therkalsen
Rant: What I Really Want to See On Television
Joe Boland
Poetry: House of Correction
John Eidswick
Fiction: The New Wine
John Sakkis
Poetry: Before Navaronne
Poetry: Alevas Hotel
Poetry: Santa Cruz
Johnny Retail
Rant: The Retail Manifesto, part one
Rant: What I Don't Want for Christmas, or The Johnny Retail Xmas Rant.
Jonathan Farlow
Fiction: The Woodpecker and Blossom Hit the Road, part 1 of 4
Fiction: The Woodpecker and Blossom Hit the Road, part 2 of 4
Fiction: The Woodpecker and Blossom Hit the Road, part 3 of 4
Fiction: The Woodpecker and Blossom Hit the Road, part 4 of 4
Fiction: How To Take The Hunt Out Of The Hunter
Jorge Sanchez
Poetry: Beginning: A Palindrome
June Warden
Poetry: Crocuses Are Coming Up
Katie Williams
Fiction: The Tightrope Walker Story
Lady Charlotte Guest
Fiction: The Dream of Maxen Welig
Louisa May Alcott
Fiction: Perilous Play, part 1
Fiction: Perilous Play, part 2
Lucas Kovar
Rant: Perfect Day
Rant: Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass
Rant: In Praise of Close-Mindedness A Manifesto for the Thoughtful Asshole
Luke Bruhns
Rant: Musings After Overtime at the Porn Factory
Rant: Live Nude Girls
M@LONE
Rant: Devil's Night
MLQ3
Rant: I Am a Bootlicker
Manish Raiji
Rant: Toward a Unified Theory of Touch
Rant: Just a Maryland Moment
Manu Chander
Poetry: Lower Tar and Nicotine
Manuel L. Quezon III
Rant: The Promise
Rant: Kill the Karaoke Singer
Fiction: It Don't Mean a Thing: Part One
Fiction: It Don't Mean a Thing: Part Two
Marcy Jarvis
Poetry: Tussie-Mussie
Poetry: Floret
Poetry: Chaplet
Poetry: Introit
Fiction: Leaves of Absence
Margaret Lazarus Dean
Fiction: Countess Tolstoi and Mrs. Nabokov Reminisce in Heaven
Fiction: A Brief Primer on the Grammar of Office
Mark Jarman
Poetry: Unholy Sonnet #9
Poetry: Unholy Sonnet #18
Mark Twain
Rant: Wit Inspirations Of The "Two-Year-Olds"
Rant: Advice to Little Girls
Rant: The Danger of Lying in Bed
Rant: My Watch: An Instructive Little Tale
Rant: Information Wanted
Rant: The Curious Republic Of Gondour
Rant: A Memory
Fiction: The Story of the Bad Little Boy
Fiction: The Story of the Good Little Boy
Marni Borek
Fiction: Missing Invisible
Martin Rutley
Poetry: 1973
Matthew Wascovich
Poetry: Half a Dime in the Desert
Poetry: Dean and the Graduated Dinner
Poetry: Above the Urban Study
Poetry: In a Studio on Perkins
Melanie Kenny
Poetry: Now Entering the Floating City
Poetry: Refrain
Poetry: Secrets in the Floating City
Poetry: Une Semaine de Bonte in the Floating City
Poetry: Nourriture
Poetry: The Baedekker Author Addresses the Floating City
Poetry: Cartography
Poetry: The Master Thief Courts the Public Librarian
Poetry: Trajectory
Poetry: The Dirigible Survior
Poetry: Crucible: The Dirigible Survivor in Love
Poetry: The Canal Digger Tells a Story
Poetry: The Astronomist's Notebook
Michael Hoffman
Fiction: Tick-Tock
Fiction: The Golden Key
Fiction: Mutilationist
Morgan Johnson
Rant: What's With All These Zombies?
Rant: On the Difficulty on Ascertaining Normal and Recognizing Costumes (a field study)a thirty-three dollar rant
Rant: 1001 Uses for a Container
Fiction: The Famous and Talented Horror Author
Fiction: Confessions of a Game Show Terrorist
Fiction: Whispering into the Sky
Nadine Antoinette Maestas
Poetry: Exercise IIThe case of the misplaced ace in hand
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fiction: The Devil in Manuscript
Fiction: The Maypole of Merry Mount
Nicholas Buzanski
Poetry: Observance
Nicholas Harp
Poetry: Tetherball : An Explanation
Nicola Bruno
Poetry: A Marmot in The City
Poetry: MELTDOWN
Nicole Aimee Roux
Poetry: On this Ferris Wheel
Nicole Boback
Rant: Shuffle Your Own Damn Papers
Rant: Sympathy
Norman Lock
Fiction: Dreaming Moriarty
Pappy Hants
Rant: Capitalist Pigs Deserve No More Moral Clarity Than the Rest of Us
Paul Durica
Fiction: Mr. Oakley
Paul Genesius Durica
Fiction: Harding in Alaska
Paul Hardacre
Poetry: The Beetling Rocks
Poetry: Charon To Make-Up
Poetry: Third In Three Days
Penelope Talbert
Poetry: tuesday, three p m
Presley Waits
Rant: Clitoris: The Anatomical Gerund
Radhika Sharma
Rant: Honey I Shrank My Pants
Ralph the Airborne Ranger
Rant: A Rebuttal for the Nonviolent Liberal
Rant: St. Joeseph and the Fish Flies
Rant: A Rebuttal for A Rebuttal of A Rebuttal . . . i think this has gone too far
Reid Baer
Poetry: Feeling A Little Persecuted
Poetry: Modern Day Politician
Poetry: The Walking Man's Prayer
Rich Furman
Poetry: Por Que
Poetry: Kisses
Poetry: Never to Meet
Poetry: Angry Chickens
Riley Hoffman and Morgan Johnson
Fiction: The Love Letters of Jack Warren and Devon March, part 1
Fiction: The Love Letters of Jack Warren and Devon March, part 2
Fiction: The Love Letters of Jack Warren and Devon March, part 3
Fiction: The Love Letters of Jack Warren and Devon March, part 4
Fiction: The Love Letters of Jack Warren and Devon March, part 5
Fiction: The Love Letters of Jack Warren and Devon March, part 6
Rob Miller
Rant: I Have This Fucked Up New Job
Rant: My New Job Is WAY More Fucked Up Than I Thought
Robert Y. Rabiee
Fiction: Trying Not To Laugh Out Loud
Fiction: Jeremy And The Lord
Rochelle Hope Mehr
Poetry: The Medium and the Message
Roy Johnson
Fiction: Tart, part 1 of 4
Fiction: Tart, part 2 of 4
Fiction: Tart, part 3 of 4
Fiction: Tart, part 4 of 4
Sally McBootykins (formerly known as the Giant Squid)
Rant: What Greatly Displeases Me in the Current Executive Administration
Sappho of Lesbos
Poetry: We Know This Much
Sara Schneider
Rant: The Retail Manifesto, part threeNot to Beat a Dead Horse, But Please . . .
Poetry: My Angel
Sara Schneider and Fritz Swanson
Rant: It's All Jim Lehrer's Fault
Sarah Erdreich
Poetry: Touch
Poetry: Like a Calvin Klein Ad
Sarah Whitney Womack
Rant: On the French and their Friggin ChickensA Letter from a Provencal Kitchen
Scott Berzon
Poetry: Colorado . . . Blue
Sea Stachura
Poetry: Mr. Donner Hallucinates Jesus Speaking From The Last Supper.April, 1847
Sean Norton
Poetry: Transporter Room
Shannon Kyle Beasley
Fiction: 12
Sir Francis Bacon
Rant: Of The Impediments of Knowledge in Handling It by Parts, And in Slipping Off Particular Sciences from the Root and Stock of Universal Knowledge, Being the 8th Chapter, The Whole Chapter.(from Valerius Terminus)
Stefan Kiesbye
Fiction: Apartment on Niagara Street, Buffalo NY
Fiction: Kaspar
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 1-4
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 5-7
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 8 and 9
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 10-12
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapter 13
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 14-16
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 17 and 18
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 19 and 20
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 21 and 22
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapter 23
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 24-26
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 27-29
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 30-32
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 33-35
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 34-37
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 38-41
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 42-44
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 45-46
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 47-49
Fiction: In Wedersen Chapters 50-53
Stephen Leacock
Fiction: The Errors of Santa Claus
Taco es Guido es Stupido es Guadalupe
Fiction: Karma Fucks Back
Terence S. Hawkins
Rant: Protocols of the Elders of Sweden
Rant: My Summer Vacation
Rant: My Summer Vacation Redux
Rant: "Pussy Bomb" Latest Threat Says Ashcroft, FBI
Rant: Another Church Shocker: "Fuck It!" Says Resigning Cardinal
Rant: Ruth Handler: Death Of A Tit Man
Rant: Is There A Retard Specialist In the House?
Rant: The New Gender Politics of Draining the Lizard
Fiction: The Minnow Files
Fiction: Why I Don't Explain How I Lost My Sweater
Fiction: A Fragment from Raymond Chandler's First Scenario for the Sopranos
Fiction: Hey Baby
Terrence McWee
Fiction: Taint or: "Tod" means death in German, the very language of Death
The Creative Witting Workshop at Western Wayne Women's Correctional Facility
Poetry: A Mother's Love
Poetry: Freedom Poem
Tobias Seamon
Fiction: The Hangman's Salon
Tom Plain-and-Tall
Rant: A Rebuttal for Johnny Retail
Urquiza Vicente
Poetry: Memorabilia
Poetry: Proof That Felines and Women Invented the Subconscious
Zacarias Moussaoui
Rant: Motion to Stipulate my RIGHT AND DUTY TO LIVE ON THIS EARTH A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE (with Four Wives), and to Stop This Judge Misrepresenting My Fight for Life
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Rant: Batteries
from Heimskringla
Fiction: Yule in Ancient Norway
syndicated advice columnist the Giant Squid and Rob, his lab assistant)
Fiction: On Parables
the Giant Squid
Rant: On the Meaning of Thanksgiving;the full text of a speech given by the Giant Squid to the assembled orphans of Our Lady of Fatima.
Fiction: What I Am Telling You When I Tell You of Love
the PMjA Staff
Rant: Page 617 from the Poor Mojo Special Services Exam:Qualification Exam Relevant for Levels X to OP13
Rant: Here's What I Hate About Christmas: Erik Garner Warren is a Jerk
Rant: Page 707 from the Poor Mojo Special Services Exam:Qualification Exam Relevant for Levels X to OP13
Rant: Page 319 from the Poor Mojo Special Services Exam:Qualification Exam Relevant for Levels X to OP13
Rant: Page 321 from the Poor Mojo Special Services Exam:Qualification Exam Relevant for Levels X to OP13
Rant: Poor Mojo is One Year Old!
Rant: What Should be in *Your* Submission?
Rant: A Selection of Christmas Headlines
the PMjA Staff)
Rant: If You Come Only Once, You've Been Cheated: A Post-Structuralist Examination of the Hegemony of the "Pure" and "Sordid"[1]

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