NEUTRAL SPACES

NEUTRAL

SPACES

Nicholas Grider

about

Author of the story collections MISADVENTURE (A Strange Object/Deep Vellum, 2014) and FOREST OF BORDERS (Malarkey Books, 2019) and the poetry chapbook GET EXCITED, MF (Imipolex Press, 2015, under the name Owen Merth)

STORIES

"Adjacent" - Identity Theory (Oct. 2022)
"Facedown In a Pumpkin Patch" - Maudlin House (Oct. 2022)
"The New Neighbor" - Fatal Flaw (Oct. 2022)
"Final Boss America" - Vol. 1 Brooklyn (Oct. 2022)
"Sales Pitch" - Nurture (Sept. 2022)
"Live Love Laugh Leave Quietly" - Rejection Letters (August 2022)
"March Into the Interior" BULL (August 2020)
• "Invasion of the Dad" Heavy Feather Review (spring 2020 print issue)
"Signature" Okay Donkey (nominated for Best Microfiction 2020 anthology)
"We the People" X-R-A-Y
"The Same Husband Twice" Queen Mob's Teahouse (named on list of "Best Online Fiction 2019" in Entropy Magazine)
• "Care Bear Stare" BUTTER
"Hello There, Talk Show Host" Okay Donkey
"This is How I Make My Escape" Five:2:One
"Tom Hanks is Still a Good Idea" Vol. 1 Brooklyn
"Exit Music" Atticus Review (also in spring 2020 print issue)
"Neither the Game Nor the Rules That Guide It" Indicia
"Family Economics" Midnight Breakfast"
"Plagues and Obligations" X-R-A-Y (as Simon Henry Stein)
"Existentialists Sing Sad Songs" Electric Literature's Commuter (as Simon Henry Stein)
"Raven" The Molotov Cocktail
"Big Ideas (Don't Get Any)" The Fanzine
"Millions of Americans are Strange" Guernica
• "Formers (by Alphabet)" Caketrain (2013 issue (print only))
"Disappearing Act" Bare Fiction
• "Misadventure" Conjunctions (Spring 2012 issue (print only))
"Nightfall" Hobart

Plays

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (one-act play)
  produced at CalArts May 2008, directed by Lily Whitsitt
The World Is Full of Burning Dogs (one-act play) Occulum

Poems

• two poems, Puerto del Sol spring 2020 issue (print only)
"OMG WTF" Always Crashing (as Simon Henry Stein)
"Inventory/History" The Arsonist (as Simon Henry Stein)
from "Small Fires of the Near Future" Dream Pop
from "Tiny Gradations of Loss" DIAGRAM
from "Tiny Gradations of Loss" The Collagist

OTHER WORK

STOCHASTIC NOCTURNES (ambient/drone album)
THIRTY PIE CHARTS (visual book) Gauss PDF

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