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Josh Madlaugher Byrnes

About Me

I'm a recent college graduate in Southern Louisiana. I graduated in Psychology and Criminal Justice. I'm currently working on a lengthy bit of fiction, and will be shopping around for a publisher soon. Until then you can check back here for some more throw-away fiction, and updates as to what I'm doing.I'm also a contributing writer for POV Magazine in which I supply a technology and video game related column each month.

I have plans to visit Japan in the coming year, so look out Japan...here I come.

In my spare time I write short stories and novellas. Most of my stories lean toward the wierd or bizarre and are riddled with uncommon gramatical/phoenetic flows, so I feel right at home with the Bizarro crowd. Great bunch of folks.

I'm checking out myspace to talk to some interesting people and advance my writing.

I just started a new moblog called The Looney Bin . So pop in and check out some of the things I see.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people to hold conversations with...impossible?
We shall see.

People To Meet...

D. Harlan Wilson

Cade Voisin

Carlton Mellick III

Matt Parker

Morgan Webb

Cracker

Chris Genoa

Kevin Pereira

Andre Duza

Tomomi Nishida

Vacherie Boy

Jeremy R. Johnson

Posh

Justin "Yardstick" Martin

Brian Keene

Jerryca

Jeff Vandermeer

Scott Moschella

Natalie N.

James Gunn

Frostee

Colin Patrick

Gina R.

Fuzzy Furl

Lloyd Kaufman

Liam Lynch

Vincent Sakowski

E. Rob

Brandon Z.

The Randy Russell

Dan Tractenberg

Alex Albrecht

Jeff Cannata

Steven Niles

Nathan Fillion

sELF

Flight of the Conchords

Wired All Wrong

Meet All My Friends Here

My Blog

My stream of consciousness is a shallow one...

Last week, I was chatting with a good friend of mine, Sophie , about some writing ideas. Later that day she sent me a little short that she sat down and hammered out without much forward planning or ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:24:00 GMT

I’ve grown increasingly bitter...

I came to the realization last night that, while I've grown substantially more peaceful over the years and most things genuinely don't bother me in the least, my quips have become increasingly bitter ...
Posted by on Mon, 05 May 2008 08:57:00 GMT

Back in business...

Ok guys and gals, for a quick recap of the last month or so. Laptop logic board fried. Lost an ass-load of stories on that hard drive. Been super busy at work. Read several books in my down time. Hila...
Posted by on Fri, 02 May 2008 14:14:00 GMT

Well, it happened....

So as of this morning, my laptop is officially no more.  The poor thing breathed its last breath bright and early this morning as I tried to check email on it.  So until I decide to shell ou...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:47:00 GMT

Star-crossed....

Ok guys, I've been in the process of attempting to get some writing done each day, and post atleast one of the writings up here each week for folks to read and give me feedback. The following is one ...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:22:00 GMT

What’s the word I’m looking for.....

oh yeah....UPDATE!Just to do a quick update as to what's going on these days.My dad is still in the hospital, and that's the main reason i haven't been updating junk here or posting stories as of late...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:37:00 GMT

More notes on Neanderthals

Warning....it's late....I'm tired....This might not make any sense and be fill of typos....I apologize in advance.Ok, so it's been a while since I've written one of these so I figured now is a good ti...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:39:00 GMT

That big green bastard...

Ok, just a quick little note...before I call it a night.Consider this a public service announcement/call to arms.As many of you may know, there is a new Shrek movie. Which an equal amount of you must...
Posted by on Wed, 09 May 2007 17:36:00 GMT

Another late night story....

Ok, so Ash Uh Lee wanted another story to read. Well I was working on this other story idea that is really way out there so I thought I would throw together a quick little read based off of that stran...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:46:00 GMT

I'm outa this bitch...

Ok, for those of you who don't know. I'm done with school for while after Saturday. On Saturday December 16, I will officially be the proud owner of a degree in Psychology and Criminal Justice.  ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:33:00 GMT