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  1. What the Dramatist Knows About Monsters

    I sold my first paid byline to a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper at the age of ten. That was 1975. In the fifty-one years since, I have continued to be paid to construct figures that audiences will find frightening, or sympathetic, or contemptible, or laughable, on schedule, in plays and musicals and screenplays and novels and podcast scripts and editorial work. My Dramatists Guild membership dates from 1984. My MFA is from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Graduate Theatre Studies at Columbia University. A publishing house I founded in the same year I sold the first byline has operated without interruption since. The inventory exists for a single reason: the labor of figure-construction is something I know from inside the work, and the working-dramatist's perspective on that labor is the perspective from which my new book is written. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/05/28/what

  2. Patrick W. Marsh @patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.com@patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.com ·
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  3. Patrick W. Marsh @patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.com@patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.com ·

    Read my Poem “Sit Down” Published by the Mourning Paper

    I recently had my poem “Sit Down” published by the Mourning Paper.

    They are a gothic, dark literary magazine that releases a variety of work from various writers. They have lifestyle, literature, and poetry, which is where I factor into this equation.

    The poem that was published was called “Sit Down” and it is most certainly a horror poem. It is about a little girl ghost who imprisons families at a dinner table inside the house she used to live in. Recently, I’ve been exploring the concept of ghosts and the dead having motivation for their hauntings. I have been trying to experiment with the human reasons these nonhuman entities might have. I just never liked the idea of ghosts being mindless or emotionless plot devices in media.

    You can read “Sit Down” on the Mourning Paper right here.

    As always, with these posts about publications I highly suggest you read the rest of the material this fine publication has to offer. I don’t want to just promote these places because they published me or support literary horror. Too many literary magazines like the Mourning Paper are undervalued, and I don’t want them to vanish into obscurity. As I submit my work to many different lit magazines I see them vanishing into nothingness fairly often.

    So please explore and support the Mourning Paper here.

    Thank you for reading my work and have an amazing day!

    #author #blogging #books #fantasy #fiction #horror #horrorCommunity #literaryHorror #monsters #patrickWMarsh #poems #Poetry #poetryCommunity #poetryWriting #theMourningPaper #writing
  4. Patrick W. Marsh @patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.com@patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.com ·

    Read my Poem “Sit Down” Published by the Mourning Paper

    I recently had my poem “Sit Down” published by the Mourning Paper.

    They are a gothic, dark literary magazine that releases a variety of work from various writers. They have lifestyle, literature, and poetry, which is where I factor into this equation.

    The poem that was published was called “Sit Down” and it is most certainly a horror poem. It is about a little girl ghost who imprisons families at a dinner table inside the house she used to live in. Recently, I’ve been exploring the concept of ghosts and the dead having motivation for their hauntings. I have been trying to experiment with the human reasons these nonhuman entities might have. I just never liked the idea of ghosts being mindless or emotionless plot devices in media.

    You can read “Sit Down” on the Mourning Paper right here.

    As always, with these posts about publications I highly suggest you read the rest of the material this fine publication has to offer. I don’t want to just promote these places because they published me or support literary horror. Too many literary magazines like the Mourning Paper are undervalued, and I don’t want them to vanish into obscurity. As I submit my work to many different lit magazines I see them vanishing into nothingness fairly often.

    So please explore and support the Mourning Paper here.

    Thank you for reading my work and have an amazing day!

    #author #blogging #books #fantasy #fiction #horror #horrorCommunity #literaryHorror #monsters #patrickWMarsh #poems #Poetry #poetryCommunity #poetryWriting #theMourningPaper #writing
  5. Patrick W. Marsh @patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.com@patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.com ·

    Read my Poem “Sit Down” Published by the Mourning Paper

    I recently had my poem “Sit Down” published by the Mourning Paper.

    They are a gothic, dark literary magazine that releases a variety of work from various writers. They have lifestyle, literature, and poetry, which is where I factor into this equation.

    The poem that was published was called “Sit Down” and it is most certainly a horror poem. It is about a little girl ghost who imprisons families at a dinner table inside the house she used to live in. Recently, I’ve been exploring the concept of ghosts and the dead having motivation for their hauntings. I have been trying to experiment with the human reasons these nonhuman entities might have. I just never liked the idea of ghosts being mindless or emotionless plot devices in media.

    You can read “Sit Down” on the Mourning Paper right here.

    As always, with these posts about publications I highly suggest you read the rest of the material this fine publication has to offer. I don’t want to just promote these places because they published me or support literary horror. Too many literary magazines like the Mourning Paper are undervalued, and I don’t want them to vanish into obscurity. As I submit my work to many different lit magazines I see them vanishing into nothingness fairly often.

    So please explore and support the Mourning Paper here.

    Thank you for reading my work and have an amazing day!

    #author #blogging #books #fantasy #fiction #horror #horrorCommunity #literaryHorror #monsters #patrickWMarsh #poems #Poetry #poetryCommunity #poetryWriting #theMourningPaper #writing
  6. Patrick W. Marsh @patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.com@patrickwmarshauthor.wordpress.com ·

    Read my Poem “Sit Down” Published by the Mourning Paper

    I recently had my poem “Sit Down” published by the Mourning Paper.

    They are a gothic, dark literary magazine that releases a variety of work from various writers. They have lifestyle, literature, and poetry, which is where I factor into this equation.

    The poem that was published was called “Sit Down” and it is most certainly a horror poem. It is about a little girl ghost who imprisons families at a dinner table inside the house she used to live in. Recently, I’ve been exploring the concept of ghosts and the dead having motivation for their hauntings. I have been trying to experiment with the human reasons these nonhuman entities might have. I just never liked the idea of ghosts being mindless or emotionless plot devices in media.

    You can read “Sit Down” on the Mourning Paper right here.

    As always, with these posts about publications I highly suggest you read the rest of the material this fine publication has to offer. I don’t want to just promote these places because they published me or support literary horror. Too many literary magazines like the Mourning Paper are undervalued, and I don’t want them to vanish into obscurity. As I submit my work to many different lit magazines I see them vanishing into nothingness fairly often.

    So please explore and support the Mourning Paper here.

    Thank you for reading my work and have an amazing day!

    #author #blogging #books #fantasy #fiction #horror #horrorCommunity #literaryHorror #monsters #patrickWMarsh #poems #Poetry #poetryCommunity #poetryWriting #theMourningPaper #writing
  7. Did you know that I'm writing and drawing a #comic right now? It's called #BlueOrchid and it's an awesome tale of a teenage South East Asian girl that fights lots of cool #monsters.

    You can pick each and every issue of Blue Orchid right now at bewarethecheese.com/blueorchid/ or on Amazon (just search "blue orchid comics").

    #comicbook #indiecomics #comics #manga

  8. Did you know that I'm writing and drawing a #comic right now? It's called #BlueOrchid and it's an awesome tale of a teenage South East Asian girl that fights lots of cool #monsters.

    You can pick each and every issue of Blue Orchid right now at bewarethecheese.com/blueorchid/ or on Amazon (just search "blue orchid comics").

    #comicbook #indiecomics #comics #manga

  9. Did you know that I'm writing and drawing a #comic right now? It's called #BlueOrchid and it's an awesome tale of a teenage South East Asian girl that fights lots of cool #monsters.

    You can pick each and every issue of Blue Orchid right now at bewarethecheese.com/blueorchid/ or on Amazon (just search "blue orchid comics").

    #comicbook #indiecomics #comics #manga