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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