Pat Foran

Fiction & Prose Poems

2024

• Versions of Me [Cold Signal]
• Not Afraid, She Said [Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine]
• In a Nest of Kindly Arms [Does It Have Pockets]
• Missing in the Small of Dreams [Tiny Molecules]
• Gratitude Party [JAKE the AntiLiterary Magazine]

2023

• The Melancholy of the Nape of Your Neck [The Mersey Review]
• When it Falls and We See, Then it Pours and We Are [Trampset]
• This [Bending Genres]
• The Nights I Spend Reading to a Rescue Horse Named Emmeline [Fractured Lit]
• Love Letter to What’s Left [South Florida Poetry Journal]
• The Ones Who Know Us [The Disappointed Housewife]
• Worst [HOOT Review]

2022

• The Lengths He Will Go to Learn Bo Derek’s Deepest Sex Secret [Louisiana Literature]
• To the Shortage of Lifeguards That Will Live in This Rill [Pithead Chapel] (Best Small Fictions 2023)
• The Father Who Said [Flash Fiction Magazine]
• The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia Claire’s House of Fine-Tooth Combs [The Ekphrastic Review]
• A Heart Thing [Emerge Literary Journal] (Wigleaf Longlist 2023)
• This Wave, a Little One (Quietly) [The Bureau Dispatch]
• Every Which Way, the Wind [Reckon Review]
• Lying Not Lying [Gastropoda]

2021

• A Centrifugal Wish [MoonPark Review]
• Me and My Imagined Ex [Trampset]
• Soylent Green Isn’t People, it’s the Color of Leisure Suits 13-Year-Old Boys Wear on the Bar Mitzvah Circuit, c. 1975 [Sledgehammer Lit]
• What in Blazes [Coffee Contrails — audiobook/story]
• The Last Thing We Were Was Drowning [Tahoma Literary Review — Soundcloud link]
• Simple Answers to Essence Questions at the International Paperweight Festival [X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine]
• A Marconigram for Margaret [LEON Literary Review]
• The Starfuckers of 1998 [The Daily Drunk]
• Flutters [Schuylkill Valley Journal]
• Live Tweeting from JCPenney Christmas Catalog Model Fantasy Camp [The Wondrous Real Magazine]
• Three Micros [New Flash Fiction Review / The MegaMegAnthology]
• The Idea of Me, at Sea [Cotton Xenomorph]
• Your Heart, in a Thimble and on its Way to the Thinnest Home in the World [Truffle Literary]
• Engelbert Humperdinck [New World Writing]
• Mutuals [No Contact]
  (Wigleaf 50 Top 50 2022)
• What We Ask, What We Wish [republished in Second Chance Lit/The Phoenix Project]

2020

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• A Thinner Man [Largehearted Boy]
• A Corn Cob of a Man Nips a Little Night Music (Hypocrisy is Dead, Long Live Love, Death and Other Tools of Engagement) [The Daily Drunk]
• Modern Love (I’m Sorry) [Moonchild Magazine]
• I Sang the Telephone Book to You the Day You Hung Yourself [Wigleaf]
  (2021 Mythic Picnic Prize in Fiction)
• Dear Wigleaf [Wigleaf]
• Pet Beds [Flash Boulevard]
• En Aeropuertos [New Flash Fiction Review]
• Hope [Dream Journal]
• When You Entertain Notions of Freedom and the Sea Settles in for the Night and You Think She Might See You Out There, in the Distance [New World Writing]
• What the Dreaming Town Says to You, You in This Only Love [Tiny Molecules]
  (Best Microfiction 2021)
• Hard Truths About the Soft Lies My Body Tells Me [(mac)ro(mic)]
  (Wigleaf Longlist 2021)
• Is Like Little Richard Is [The Daily Drunk]
• Feeb [HOOT Review]
• The Red Telephone (Sometimes My Life is So Eerie, Or Maybe Just So) [Largehearted Boy]
• Favorite [Flash Boulevard]
• Reckoning at the Doomsday Prep Food Storage Super Store [Flash Boulevard]
• Sing to Me the One About the Righteous Embrace of the Ineffable [X–R-A-Y Literary Magazine]

2019

• How Cold the Morning, How Heavy the Waltz (MoonPark Review)
  (Wigleaf Longlist 2020)
• At the Super Elastic Bubble Plastic Commercial Shoot [Gone Lawn]
• Here Come the Brides! (Trampset)
• The Way Lon Chaney and the Woman He Loves Sometimes Forget [Bad Pony]
• Misunderstanding and Misinformation in the Recorded History of Identity Storytelling (Okay Donkey)
• Space Music from Space Land (Fictive Dream)
• Parental Peace Talks (BULL)
• The Truth About Florence Henderson’s Floating Notes (Milk Candy Review)

2018

• For My Dearest Claire, the New CEO of Airport Therapy Dogs, LLC (Little Fiction)
• What We Ask, What We Wish (SleazeMag)
• Tilt (Anti-Heroin Chic)
  (Best Small Fictions 2021)
• Summer Songs from the Blimp Ruins (Gravel)
• Greetings from La Dolce Pantomime (Bending Genres)
• Layers (The Disappointed Housewife)
• Futures (formercactus)
• How to Have a Conversation (The Cabinet of Heed)

2017

• These Healing Waters, They Want to Wash Over Me (Five:2: One #thesideshow)
• What We Think We Know at This Hour About the Broad Shoulders of Joan Crawford When She Rises After a Restless Night (MoonPark Review)
• Simon Hangs a Fingerpainting While Happenstance Glows Like Earthshine (WhiskeyPaper)
  (Wigleaf Longlist 2018)
• In Anticipation of a Lionhearted Sigh Under a Dilettante Moon (Unbroken Journal)

Creative Non-Fiction

• Sometimes when I'm driving I get a call [Reckon Review, 2024]
• Cory and His Miracle Mop [Voices of the Winter Solstice / The Burning Hearth (curated by Constance Malloy), 2021]
• Beneficiary [jmww Journal, 2021]
• Never [Rejection Letters, 2021]
• Top Ten Episodes of TV Shows I Watched in 2019 on DVDs That Belonged to My Son Cory (Little Fiction)
• Top Ten Songs I Sang Along With on the Drive to and from Work in 2018 (Little Fiction)

Interviews

• with Coffee Contrails (October 2021)
• Author Spotlight: Wondrous Real Magazine (April 2021)
• with Milk Candy Review (May 2019)
• with Tommy Dean (July 2018)

ETCETERA

• My Fave Five in June 2020 [Bending Genres blog, July 2020]