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Joshua Alan Doetsch fell back on writing ever since the sad day the high school guidance counselor informed him that “Spiderman” was not a viable vocation. While you sleep, he weaves words in the plasma cauldron of his computer screen under the twilight laughter of a black-light, advised by a rubber raven and his pet snake, Lenore. His fiction thesis, Souls Unsure (a dark epic about a voodoo priestess, a fallen angel’s journey through the underworld, and a very sad teddy bear) won the UIS Outstanding Master's Thesis Award (the first time a work of fiction won the award at that school)—and he’s currently scrambling in the laborious enterprise of gathering enough body parts to sew together and animate into an unholy, lurching demographic to sell the book to. Meanwhile, his horror novel, Strangeness in the Proportion, won the White Wolf Novel Contest and will be available at major book stores sometime in the near future. As for his short stories, “Teddy Bear Rex” was nominated for a Pushcart Award and “Snow, Blood, and Sparrows” appears in the anthology, Book of Dead Things , by Twilight Tales Press , available now. Joshua has a fondness for fedoras, finds happiness in voodoo doll smiles, does a pretty mean Christopher Walken impersonation, and once upon a road trip dreary, out of extreme boredom and morbid curiosity, wrote a Blues song about necrophilia. He also writes fascinating internet profiles in the third person.



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See Joshua Off to Norway!

I'm off to Norway! Going to be writing for a video game company in a far off place for a year. So please, please, please come send me off in style and visit. Maybe bring a snack. Maybe bring a libati...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:01:00 GMT

Old Baba Hubbard

"Old Baba Hubbard"by Joshua Alan DoetschOld Mother HubbardWent to the cupboard,To fetch a body of the barrow.But her iron teeth growled mean,For she'd already picked the bones clean,And had even sucke...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:17:00 GMT

Haiku Revised

the Night Owl devoursthe Early Bird before dawnand thus saves the Worm
Posted by on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:36:00 GMT

Twitter...

I broke down and joined Twitter. You can find me at JoshuaDoetsch. Say hi.
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Mwahahahahahahaha!

A several weeks ticked by&just like that.Over a month in fact.Theyve been light laughter and heavy laughter weeks. A little life and alittle death. A coin flips&but it all balances out in the end. Ip...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:39:00 GMT

Where is my Motivation?...

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Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:51:00 GMT

Other Me, Other You...buttons make better doors than windows

Wrote a very short, twisted take on a familiar fairytale recently, for a zine my friend Brayton J. Cameron was putting together called Dear Deer Wolf Bear Shark. The story had to feature one of those...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:03:00 GMT

Murmurs from the Pseudopod

Gotten a lot of mostly good feedback for the audio version of my story (“Blood, Snow, and Sparrows”), over at Pseudopod.org and more comments over at their DISCUSSION FORUMS. My favorite ...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:16:00 GMT

Wanna hear a story?

Hello, lovelings!Pseudopod.org has broadcast my first piece of audio fiction (my short story, 'Snow, Blood, and Sparrows' originally from Book of Dead Things).I'm a big fan of audio fiction and tickle...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:31:00 GMT

Random Clipping While Cleaning Out My Notebook

...Whole flocks of black sheep.No one is a conformist.  So everyone is....
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:06:00 GMT