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August 31, 2010

Quiet Lightning San Francisco Reading Information

Matty Byloos Reading at QUIET LIGHTNING Reading Series, San Francisco, CA

Barkle and StinkThis is going to be one helluva reading lineup, hosted by Evan Karp and Rajshree Chauhan, and will be celebrated with the publication of Sparkle and Blink Issue Number 7, this time to be called Barkle and Stink. More info below.

September 6, 2010 Monday Night Reading With Special Guests, at Quiet Lightning, S.F.

Check out the details on the bookstore website here: Quiet Lightning Events Page, San Francisco, CA

September 6, 2010 Quiet Lightning, S.F.

Reading and Performing At (Location):
Mina Dresden Gallery

Reading and Performing With (Writers): (more…)

August 17, 2010

Why There Are Words in Sausalito, CA: Reading Photos and Video

Photos From Why There Are Words: Matty Byloos on Thursday, August 12, 2010

This reading took place in Sausalito, CA on the evening of Thursday, August 12, 2010. The reading featured Matty Byloos, Rosaleen Bertolino, Josie Brown, Jeff Gillenkirk, Margaret Kaufman and Townsend Walker.

Details from the event live here, at the Why There Are Words website.

Why There Are Words: Matty Byloos August 12, 2o1o

Why There Are Words: Matty Byloos August 12, 2o1o

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August 4, 2010

Flash Fiction Draft: Night Memory

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Night Memory: The Only Light in the Room

I’m waiting for a cab outside of a school. It’s late afternoon, but not dark. The cab arrives and five of us strangers pile in. The first stop is only maybe three hundred yards down the road.

It’s suddenly darker, just past dusk. When the cab stops, the kids next to me start to exit on the street side. The cab driver yells and then slaps the side of my leg with his hand. I am stunned and yell, Hey! (mostly out of fear). For a moment, I think I’m in danger as I recall the two side streets we have just driven past and the apparent mayhem at the end of each block.

I get out curbside to let the kids out, and after they exit and run without paying, the taxi screeches away without me. One second, I think – it’s closer to go back then to run in the direction I was headed. But I left my bag in the car, so I chase. (more…)

July 30, 2010

Flash Fiction Draft: Bird Dream, or The Inherent Value of Emu Eggs

Emu Eggs

Emu Eggs. Egg of Emu. Eggs Containing Emus.

The problem doesn’t so much as start in Portland as it does in Southern California, about eleven hundred miles away. I don’t realize it at the time, but my girlfriend and I are breaking up. One day we are together, a couple. Then suddenly, we are not.

It is early morning, and things are being done around the house. What at first appears to be simple cleaning, chores and the like, suddenly turns into all-out house moving. I don’t recognize the apartment as my own as such, but can tell that I live there with my girlfriend. Or at least yesterday, I did.

When her ex-boyfriend appears, there is also an abundance of cats. After my cup of coffee that morning, I head to the bathroom, where there is a short line of new cats, waiting patiently for their time under the hood in the litter box. This only strikes me as strange for a moment. I am in there on other urgent business.

It dawns on me in an emotion-less way that i am moving out, and my girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend of old has moved back in to her life, and our former apartment. But we’re all friends, so this is more like a television show version of the same events than anything real, which is to say, painful but also remote. (more…)

July 29, 2010

Freelance Writing Around the Web by Matty Byloos

old typewriterThis is an ever-expanding list of all the things I have written, and will continue to write, around the web.

They are linked here, can be read through those links, and will be categorized under headings of the sites where the articles are located.

The Nervous Breakdown
Where Centaurs Find Themselves in the Whole Love Deal. 7/27/10

We Who Are About to Die
Writing Prompt, or Bob Dylan meets Jasper Johns. 8/23/10
What is wrong with poetry readings these days? 8/9/10
Billy Idol called; he wants to know if you both see and feel his sex attack. 7/29/10
For we who are about to love our mother friggin pillow pets. 7/19/10
Dinner party thoughts inspired by Matthew Simmons, A Jello Horse. 7/16/10
Getting to know: WTF podcast with Marc Maron. 7/15/10
Spotlight on open books, Long Beach. 7/9/10
I am smirking out loud. (Exquisite Corpse curated by D.W. Lichtenberg) 5/20/2010
Die Antwoord: Not only the answer, but perhaps also, an important question. (4/16/10)

Man Jr.
Top 5 Rock Documentaries and Movies, Maybe. 8/5/10
MMA Highlights From Recent Years Past. 7/28/10
Top 5 Clutch New York Yankees of the Modern Era. 7/23/10
World Cup Stadiums Go Green. 6/16/10
Or visit the Matty Byloos on MANJR Author Page.

The Fanzine
Film Review: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. 11/20/09
Matty Byloos Author Page on The Fanzine.

Easy Ways to Go Green
This site features regularly updated content on all things eco-related. Published, edited and mostly written by me, unless otherwise noted in individual posts. Easy Ways to Go Green.

House Mod
I took over as Head Writer of House Mod in July of 2010. Much of the blog writing on the site from that point forward is by me.

Adventure Worthy
Freelance writing on Hotels, Travel and Dining around the world.
Author page with all articles here: Matty Byloos on Adventure Worthy.

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