#alexander lumans

[michaeltunk]

Michael Tunk, Drop Of Honey, 2017, analog collage, 8" x 8.5". *The last piece made for 7x7LA based on the writings of Alexander Lumans

[michaeltunk]

Michael Tunk, The Dying Light that Turns Your Eyes to Drops of Amber, 2016, analog collage, 9" x 12". *Made for 7x7LA based on the writings of Alexander Lumans

[joannemerriam]

from Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days

[covertrook]

In Boulder, I’d particularly exhausted all reasoning as to why I was lonelier in a beautiful state in the happiest city in the country than I was in rural Illinois where I’d ritually go bike riding through this one cemetery north of my attic apartment and drink spiced tequila from the bottle against a blank headstone.

Alexander Lumans

[americanshortfiction-blog]

"Control Magic," Alexander Lumans' essay for our Things American series, is all about his love of Magic: The Gathering and what he's learned from lost lifepoints. (Update: Alex got 9th place out of 20 in a tournament to celebrate the newest set, Journey Into Nyx, this past weekend. We're proud of him. )

[joannemerriam]

From Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days (Amazon ebook / print; B&N; iStore; Kobo).

[americanshortfiction-blog]

We're slowly getting our archive of web exclusives online.  First up: Alexander Lumans' "The Unicorns," from 2011, which begins:.

"The blizzard is over. But the sea waves still crash high upon the shore, making it impossible to row off any of the archipelago’s islands. The unicorns are cantering about and talking about the weather. “Fucking cold!” “And how!” The unicorns have come to the archipelago to be chosen by the Rider. It is the only archipelago for hundreds of miles with a Rider who will ride unicorns. “Fucking cold!” “And how!”

Read the story here, and an interview with Alex about it here.

[joannemerriam]

I taught my wife chess before she was my wife. It was a struggle at first. She wanted to flirt and I wanted her to be quiet. "You're getting better." I told her this when she wasn't. But when I made the offhand wager that if she ever beat me I'd marry her, then she caught on quickly. She was always black. She favored the horsies. "Chess," I once taught her, "is about all the moves you don't make." Sometimes we'd leave the game for the morning, having found each other's feet under the table and then our clothes on the floor. One night she told me, "I think it's more about the moves you can't make anymore." I said, "Maybe, honey," to which she answered, "They tell you the next move." I didn't argue; instead, I tried thinking her way for once. That night she beat me for the first time.

- Alexander Lumans, from Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days, which also contains stories by Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Joyce Carol Oates and 33 others. Get the paperback at Amazon. (Or get the ebook: Kindle | B&N | Kobo.)