Migration is available!

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Available at the publisher’s website Pski’s Porch or directly from Amazon.

“The waters have quickened with darkness. The fox continues to fall apart; also, you were right: I should never have kept company with the crow. A parliament of Great-Horned Owls caught him cheating in a 7-card stud marathon; they tore off his left wing behind the butterfly farmer’s towering vivarium.

Can you imagine? Me underneath a lowering moon, threading a pine needle with a spider web, wondering where I went wrong? I tried like hell to sew the jack of diamonds to the crow’s body for a makeshift wing, but my efforts were futile.”

Rebirth

July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 / brian1morse / Leave a comment

Thanks to Spelk for publishing my latest short piece, Rebirth! Took a break from crime writing and went back to anthropomorphic surrealism. I hope you enjoy.

“The woods and oceans rattled their swords in a jagged dance toward oblivion…”

Crossing the Queen

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 / brian1morse / Leave a comment

Thanks to Close to the Bone for publishing my latest short piece Crossing the Queen “Cigarette smoke curled around Veronica’s right wrist like a translucent gray handcuff. She uncrossed her black-stockinged legs, stood up, and dropped ash into the blood that pooled around Allen’s head.”

Crossing the Queen is heavily influenced by film noir, as are many of my stories, but Veronica and Allen are named after Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd of This Gun for Hire, The Blue Dahlia-written by Raymond Chandler, and The Glass Key. I do imagine the two characters looking like them. I hope you enjoy!

The Fallout – Mystery Tribune

March 18, 2019 / brian1morse / Leave a comment

Thanks to Mystery Tribune for publishing my latest piece found here: The Fallout

“The parking lot of Jackie’s bar unfurled like the Serengeti plains. I channeled Mandela the lion, and with a focused rage, set my double vision above the Ford Fiesta’s steering wheel…”

The Buttered Pig

March 4, 2019 / brian1morse / Leave a comment

Thanks to Shotgun Honey for publishing my latest noir piece, The Buttered Pig

Caged

October 26, 2018October 31, 2018 / brian1morse / Leave a comment

Thanks to Visitant for publishing my latest piece! via Caged

Stella and the Turnaround

October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 / brian1morse / Leave a comment

Thanks to Close to the Bone for publishing my latest noir piece: Stella and the Turnaround Intoxicated with the promise of a large score, Leo’s gait was now steadied by the swollen bankroll in his pocket. As he passed the Hotel Cadillac…

Birds of Prey, Akashic Books

October 15, 2018October 31, 2018 / brian1morse / Leave a comment

Thanks to Akashic Books for publishing my short story Birds of Prey

http://www.akashicbooks.com/birds-of-prey-by-brian-morse/

Here’s a photo of a Red-tailed Hawk I took to celebrate a bird of prey.

Noir Flash Fiction

August 16, 2017 / brian1morse / Leave a comment

I wrote a flash fiction piece about a master card cheat that slips up, and pays for it. Thanks to Pulp Metal Magazine for taking it on. I have a couple companion pieces that I hope to share in the near future, but for now, My Blue Mistake Thanks for reading!