Bibliography

My career has been a long strange trip. Here are some of the milestones in Publications, Notable Blog Activity and Appearances/Performances.

PUBLICATIONS:

“Packing Foam,” my weird tale, was published at Daily Science Fiction, appropriately enough on Friday 13, Febr 2015. http://dailysciencefiction.com/hither-and-yon/magic-realism/james-frederick-leach/packing-foam

“Hard Truth,” HellNotes, Horror in a Hundred, 15 December 2014. (100 words about work day horror)

• “The Laughter of Dead Children” (Poem/Sentimental Nihilism) Grim Corps II, October 2013. http://grimcorps.com/magazine/
— I blogged about this publication, here:

• “Changed” (100-word Prose Poem/Lycanthrope Woes) 13 Quick Shivers from DailyNightmare.com, October 2013. https://gumroad.com/l/IZHm
— I blogged about this publication, here:
— This poem was also adapted for a promotional video which can be seen here:

• “Crawlspace” (Short Story/Home Improvement Horror) in Eerie Tales: Dreadful Delusions, 2012. Available HERE:
— Eerie Tales is a annual benefit anthology produced by the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers that supports a literacy project run by nuns. Can even you GET more wholesome than that?

• “Not Entertaining” in Necrotic Tissue, January 2011 (100-word prose poem/zombie-oriented domestic comedy)

• “Pisser” in Necrotic Tissue, October 2009 (100-word prose poem/unfortunate metamorphosis)

• “Bent” in AlienSkin, June/July 2009 (paranormal romance gone awry)

• “A Public Relations Nightmare” in Necrotic Tissue, January 2009  (100-word prose poem / economic impact of the zombie apocalypse)

• “Baptist” (Full-length Musical/A Singing, Dancing Beheaded Prophet), won the Christians in Theatre Arts National Playwriting Contest in 1997 and was given a full production at Spring Arbor University, Spring Arbor, MI in November, 2008.
— Equal parts Oscar Wilde’s Salomé and Bertolt Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle with a dollop of Grand Guignol late in Act Two.

• “Local History” (Poem/Conjectures about a Lightly Haunted House) Old West Side News, May 2005

• “That Delicious Torture, Love” (One-Act Comedy/Lover’s Revenge) produced by Heartlande Theatre as part of Play-by-Play Festival in April, 1999

• “Two Coffees, Black” a one-act play was produced by Heartlande Theatre as part of Play-by-Play Festival and re-mounted as part of the Playscape 1997 Festival in June, 1997  (teen suicide and soda shops)

• “seconds” (Poem/The Brother of the Prodigal Son) in Christianity and Literature, 1995

• Safe Passage (One act drama/Father Abraham explains it all), commissioned for and produced at the conference “An Ethos of Compassion and the Integrity of Creation,” Toronto, ON, 1992.

• “Fixtures and the Box They Came In,” (Full-length drama/ Communication Technology vs. Communication), commission for and produced at the conference “The Sound of Silence,” Niagra-on-the-Lake, ON, commissioned for the ICS Family Conference
August 1990

Instructive Ambiguities: Brecht and Müller’s Experiments with Lehrstücke, Master’s Thesis. 1992. pp. 156 plus notes. Text available here.
— I remain proud of this bit of pious juvenalia, not just for the scholarship but also the weirdo typography of text, marginal gloss and footnote, an attempt at a dialoguic text. Dig particularly page 6!

• “Collection,” (one-act drama/garbage and redemption), first produced by Trinity House Theatre, Livonia, MI

BLOGGING:
I blog almost constantly over at DailyNightmare.com (Midwest Snob Horror) under the oh-so-clever pseudonym “Doktor Leech” (the Leech Doctor). Here are a couple representative posts from recent months:

“Life Lessons from an Active Shooter Training”
“Theatre Bizarre 2013 The Procession”
“Robbed by a Pirate in New Orleans”

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I have contributed many articles over the years to 20 Minute Garden.com, mostly practical instruction pieces but I’m most proud of the more reflective, philosophical posts. Here are three of them:

“Must We Wait for the Worst to be our Best?” (Meditation and Tragedy)
“The Newel Post” (Meditation and the “Answers” of Prayer)
“Rejuvenation of Technology” (Reflections on the glee of seeing an electric sports car)

APPEARANCES and PERFORMANCES

• Penguicon 2015
— I assisted my partner Janice in a presentation about “Conflict in the Garden” — and no, we didn’t play “The Trees” by Rush.
— Speculative Poetry with Matt Betts, Nicole Castle and Trico Ludkins… and later read my poem “Solstice 2014” at a Poetry Jam.
— Dealing with rejection, an all star jam panel with Steven Saus (Alliteration Ink) Sarah Panda (ed. Steampunk World) Patty Templeton,
— “You got SciFi in my…” with Charlie Jane Anders, Patty Templeton and Matt Betts

• CONfusion 2015
Kameron Hurley, Saladin Ahmed, XXX and CCC.
Beer in Speculative fiction with XXX of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, SSs and ccc

• “Calling the Tune,” “A Fluke Encounter” and “A Late Supper” three 250-word stories, performed at the Raw Dog Screaming Press Writer’s Retreat, Hocking Hills, 6 December 2014.

• CONtext 27, 2014

• “Intervention” performed at Context 27, “Flash Fiction Contest” 27 September, 2014, Columbus, OH. I won a hard bound copy of Streets of Shadows, that cool noir urban fantasy anthology by Alliteration Ink. Double-plus good was that I got many of the contributors to sign it at the convention.

PENGUICON 2014

• “Indeterminacy as a Compositional Tool: Tarot Cards and Writing” Penguicon 2014. Also viewable on Youtube: http://youtu.be/w4Eeb4kgaKE (I also sat on several panels where I said many things I thought were clever at the time.)

• “Mood and Setting in Scary Stories” (Non-Fiction) presented at the Ann Arbor Public Library-Mallet’s Creek Branch, Sunday December 8th, 2013, with the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers/Three Corpse Circus.
— I’ll post the text of this presentation real soon. I promise.