In verse, essay, and play, the sordid saga of Lefty Smith's tumultuous visit to the Land of the Sun lurches back into the light.

Left in the Lurch

Gee takes a look back at how he was groomed to be a protestant pastor while sleeping with his mentor's ex-wife.

June 19th 2024


Lips

Absurdist stories capped with two cruel little novellas, experiments in high adventure on a strange parallel plane. Nov 1st 2023.

The Penult

This is my poetry chapbook: A distillation of phobias from everyday life, messages scrawled in piss and smuggled out.

Fear of sleep

Excerpt from King Solomon's Mines, by Colin Gee

All expenses paid

A translation of Guadalupe Dueñas' 'El moribundo'

The dying man

Article about Tiene la noche un árbol, the 1954 collection of Mexican gothic stories by Guadalupe Dueñas of Jalisco, Mexico.

To the Night Belongs a Tree: The Stories of Guadalupe Dueñas (1910–2002)

Jesus in the shit

Snow Country

Still life with an adobe wall, Still life with Sua, Still life under the volcano

Another poem from the Lefty Smith universe

Luigi's penthouse

New poem from the universe of Lefty Smith

Lefty's tender side

Imagine my surprise when the lonely hitchhiker I picked up outside of Oaxaca City turned out to be one of my childhood idols, superstar actor and stuntman Tom Cruise.

Hitchhiking with Tom

Excerpt from the saga of Lefty Smith.

Lefty found a house to rent
other side of town
big garden said Lefty
two bedrooms
a fixer-upper.

Left in the Lurch: 3-poem excerpt

What in the hell are you doing, Baby George, my dad asked, standing over him in his own PJs.

Baby George

After he died they went through the house he had shared with Jennifer and found a lot of things.

The things they found

Review of White Paint Falling Through a Filtered Shaft by Adam Johnson

Adam Johnson on the straight and twisted

This gorgeous moleskin, it is turning my prose to pedestrian garbage.

The birthday present that eats hands

You see them ring them bells / Tragedy strikes in the third grade

2 more poems

Lefty is stealing Mark's girl

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