david c. porter (read NTTN)

consider this: a large pile of wriggling worms

(unprompted) the situation is crazy

new Minor Horror! wrote about The Rider of the Skulls, a Mexican film in which a masked man defeats draculas and werewolves by punching them. it’s a film i find strangely magical, and in the piece i tried to figure out why. i hope you'll give it a read

today in Keep Planning, i'm thrilled to present the poetry debut of the one and only Kate Wagner, "Portrait of Myself as Gertrude Schiele", a vivid, startling prose poem of great power and immediacy. this one is not to be missed

today in Keep Planning, a great tranche of skittering scattering spasming spluttering poemtext by the singular Christian McDonough. please do check it out

new Minor Horror piece! this one's on Head Trauma, an endearingly grimy, downbeat product of the mid-aughts "indie" boom, about a guy sleeping in a tent in his late grandma's creepy, condemned house getting freaked the fuck out by a grim reaper in a parka. please do give it a read

today in Garden Scenery, a story about a difficult day, featuring an epistemological proposition. please do give it a read

new Minor Horror installment in Garden Scenery today, on one of the most bizarre, inscrutable, totally singular movies i've seen this year: Alvaro Passeri's The Mummy Theme Park. check it out below

today in Keep Planning, very pleased to present five deft, sharp, ethereal poems by Hesse Press's own Clare Kelly, from her (very cool) forthcoming collection – please do give them a read!

it's October again, which means it's time to start up my Minor Horror series again, where i write about horror movies rarely written about. up first is a work by the notable german avant-gardist Dore O., whose films *are* written about, but hardly ever in this sort of context. check it out

today in Garden Scenery, a story about a room made of paper. it contains some useful advice, so please do give it a read

today in Keep Planning, three lovely, poised, evocative poems from Finnegan Bly. do give them a read

today in Garden Scenery, a poem

this is cool to me because it's the sort of thing that was a much more common type of "viral video" around when its time lapse actually starts, and also because almost nothing really happens in it

sharing a triptych of fragments very loosely riffing on a Donald Barthelme essay in Garden Scenery today. do give it a read, it's quite short

today in Keep Planning, a sprawling, kaleidoscopic world-poem from Michael Borth. give it a read, and take a trip to the night city

today in Keep Planning, new prose from returning contributor Eric T. Racher – i call it only "prose" because i'm truly not sure there's any more specific descriptor yet invented for the strange, dark, heady blend of literary forms to be found here. do not miss this one

new fiction up in Garden Scenery today. it's about a man overseeing a remote site, and his wife, who, in his absence, has come down with a troubling illness. you can read it here

#063 – "2 Poems" by Zachary Swezy keep-planning.net/text/063

got trapped in the clocktower again :/ its baleful chiming is a reminder of my own inescapable mortality :/

really, really pleased to present a new fiction by Eric Angal in Keep Planning today. Eric is one of the best in the game right now and he's crafted a piece here that feels like being trapped in someone else's bad dream. please give it a read

reminder: it takes a very special molecule to penetrate the skin

have two new poems up in Garden Scenery today. one is called “Miser” and the other is called “Asthma”. please give them a read

(guy who has no idea what's going on here) look, i think we all understand what's going on here

today in Keep Planning, a dark, verdant corpsepoem by the singular Logan Berry, excerpted from a longer work-in-progress on the nine stages of decay described in Buddhist meditational practice. for its briefness, this is a remarkably vivid, evocative work of macabre verse. please do give it a read

#061 – "Slippage (Forest)" by Logan Berry

today in Keep Planning, very pleased to present this lovely little prose sequence from S. Taufeequddin Azher, a name certainly worth keeping an eye on, concerning, among other things, frogchildren, DASTKAR™ tea, and the tribulations of reading in public. please do give it a read

Julije Knifer, Meander No. 5, 1960 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137525

i would be terrified to meet a "brute"

today in Garden Scenery, three fictions about three men: a man with a system, a man with a steam room, and a man with a present to leave at a grave. do these men have something in common? read their fictions, and perhaps you’ll find out…

today in Keep Planning, a poem from Cletus Crow paying tribute to a creature most deserving of such honor: a farm animal. please do give it a read

a couple new poems in Garden Scenery today, in which someone is trying to tell you something. it's very important, this thing that they're trying to tell you. why won't you listen? one is called "$100,000" and the other is called "Sand Castle". give them a read

wrote up some ideas for books that probably haven’t been written yet. if you've been wondering what your next creative project should be, one of these could be just the ticket!

a new poem from Rura Oilheart in Keep Planning today. it's very likely Keep Planning would not exist without the example and inspiration of surfacescx, so i'm thrilled to finally be able to return the favor and publish the inimitable, hallucinatory verse of its editor emeritus

today in Garden Scenery, a story about a man in the subway, going into a tunnel, groping deeper into humid darkness. thank you for your attention to this matter

don't trap me on any weird island

new fiction from Avee Chaudhuri in Keep Planning today, a story about friendship, and prison barges, and vintage birthday presents, centering around a man with strangely familiar initials... do give it a read

500 million dollars isn't even that much these days. that's enough to buy like half a fighter jet

have a new batch of fragments on writing and related matters (here, “terrorism”, the gallery arts, my relative awkwardness in direct conversation, among other things) in Garden Scenery today. check it out below

new fiction from Ron Arbuckle in Keep Planning today, about an introverted pastor, and some of the people he knows, and some of the disasters, natural or otherwise, they're bound up with inside his head. do give it a read

today in Garden Scenery, a story about a village on a plain scarred by ravines. it’s called “Ravine Country”. check it out below

they put me in a tube and told me to become a human being

Film bros freak out when you break into their house and trash the place

wrote a summer poem. check it out below