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“The Late Worm” is now available!

The Late Worm

Update [10/28/25]: Now also available as a paperback from Feltrinelli in Italy and Waterstone’s in the UK.

Update [10/15/25]: The Late Worm is now available as a paperback from Amazon US.

My fourth book of flash fiction/poetry is now out and (mostly) available. The “mostly” is because there are some technical issues I’m sorting out with Amazon US. The Kindle version is available everywhere. The print version is presently available in the US at B&N and in UK/Italy/Europe at Amazon.co.uk. The detailed purchase links are on the relevant book page.

This book carries on in much the same indescribable fashion as the first three books. Oh wait, I just described it, so it’s not indescribable. Or maybe I spawned a universe-collapsing paradox. We’ll have to wait and see.

Anyway, check out my new book if you have a hankering for pretentious pseudo-philosophy, thinly-veiled allegories, and the occasional sociopath holding forth on this or that.

In the near future, I plan to put out a collection of all four books plus a variety of aphorisms that don’t fit in elsewhere. This may seem redundant, but only to the uninitiated. The initiated will realize that it can’t be redundant if it wasn’t dundant to start with. Also, I’ll include an index of first lines — which is the hallmark of books of famous poetry by famous people.

Of course, in their cases, it is usually compiled by one of the hundreds of scholars dedicated to scrutinizing every word they said. Thankfully for my sanity and theirs, nobody troubles to scrutinize every word I say … or any word I say, which means I can say any words I choose and escape scrutiny. Schlombosculation et vinum transtripula expidosion. There, I said it. Word which will escape scrutiny. They sound vaguely latin, but I’ll leave it to the scholars to decipher them. Otherwise, how will they get their PhDs in literature and have solid careers in the meatpacking industry?