T shirt jeans purple tennis shoes w/ the letter T on the side
Phoenix XXXV
scar on his arm
black jeans belt an our lady of guadalupe square leather pendant on a leather necklace
the victim was found deceased in a residence his girlfriend did not know his real name
Phoenix XLI
white nike tennis shoes green socks brown dickeys pants a black t shirt w/ jesus on it & a gray t shirt w/ the virgin of guadalupe on it he also had a blue jacket & a baseball cap w/ the logo of the mighty ducks hockey team a gold colored bracelet w/ the word paz 2 distinctive cigarette lighters
the victim died after he had an altercation while he was paint sniffing
Burning House Press are excited to welcome JOHN TREFRY as the first BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today JOHN will take over editorship of Burning House Press online for the month of JUNE.
Submissions are open from today – and will remain open until 25TH JUNE.
JOHN’S theme for the month is as follows
—INANIMISM—
Submission Guidelines
All submissions should be sent as attachments to guesteditorbhp@gmail.com
Please state the theme and form of your submission in the subject of the email. For example: INANIMISM/POETRY
Poetry and Fiction
For poetry submissions, submit no more than three of your best poems. Short stories should be limited to 1,500 words or (preferably) less. We encourage flash fiction submissions, no more than three at a time. Send these in as a .doc or .docx file, along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.
Art Submit hi-res images of your works (drawings, paintings, illustrations, collages, photography, etc) with descriptions of the work (Title, Year, Medium, etc) in the body of the email. Files should be in .JPEG unless they are GIFs or videos, and should not exceed 2MB in size for each work. File names should correspond with the work titles. Video submissions can be uploaded onto Youtube or Vimeo for feature on our website. Send these submissions along with a short third-person bio, and (optional) photograph of yourself.
Virtual Reality/ 3D Artworks
For VR Submissions, please submit no more than three (3) individual artworks. For Tilt Brush works, please upload your artwork to Google Poly (https://poly.google.com/), and mark it as ‘public’ (‘remixable’ is at your own preference). A VR/3D artwork can also be submitted as a video export navigating through the artwork. If you prefer this method, please upload your finished video file to YouTube or Vimeo and provide a URL. With either format, please provide a 150 word artist’s statement.
Non-fiction Non-fiction submissions (essays, reviews, commentary, interviews, etc) should be no more than 1, 500 words and sent as a .doc or .docx file along with your third-person bio/and optional photograph.
Submissions are open until 25th JUNE – and will reopen again on 1st JULY2025/for new theme/new editor/s.
BHP online is now in the capable hands of the amazing JOHN TREFRY – friends, arsonistas, send our JUNE 2025 guest editor your magic!
Deep in the forest in a flannel nightdress, a little girl lingers without much on her chest, shame in her heart, much to confess. Here she is safe, completely at rest. Gone the behemoths of yesteryear. Her cheek on chenille, her brain bereft of all fear inside this night sans starlight except a meek constellation of which faithfully appears from a bedside nightlight replacing a moon which made her weep more nights than swoon. Tonight she looks no father than this light of her room which is not a metaphor — means to write. No beseeching big teeth inside these woods — it ends with her pen like make believe should.
I live in a genre the aged read. Decrepit men tell their mendacities before a final tomcatnap beneath cracked granite mausoleum roof. This squeezed social register, not quite weatherproof, trickles on nipples; a drooping sundress exposes flesh, rose, only ghosts reprove or molest, witness this macabre burlesque.
After a reveal of cotton candy sheep being shorn for confectionery purposes in the Burton Charlie and the Chocolate Factory film: Willy Wonka – “I’d rather not talk about this one.”
You peer a possible pasture in a
pink corridor.Perhaps peeking proves it?
Perchance a perpendicular door plays with peripheral vision, pomegranate sheep producing shorn candy floss piles pruned
to palatable heaps?Panicked to peep Continue reading “Womannotated – Why Charlie Can’t Leave The Factory”→
I lie on the bottom of the pool, my back resting lightly on the rough, cool marbelite; staring motionless up at the surface of the water. Four feet of water separates me from fresh, breathable air.
always.the.same.year (2020), 2048×2048, digital: Here our faces plunge into the endless vanity of social media until the bubbles stop. Our digital selves/saviors are the ones bleeding sanity from our tarnished skin.Continue reading “A tale of three descendants”→
Two Golden Tickets sonnets (my Charlie and The Chocolate Factory homage book of poems) from the Hot Chocolate section which involves chocolatier love triangles, femme fatale industrial spies, strip clubs and licorice .
Sugar Daddy’s
A strip club in which Arthur Slugworth, chocolatier competitor of Willy Wonka, meets the woman who will become his secretary and industrial spy and future lover of Willy Wonka.
American Candy Expo meets in
Chicago each year. Arthur Slugworth’s jet
consistently appears before show begins
day early to play. Bittersweet secrets
over his butterscotch schnapps confessed
to the ponytailed stripper; her peach ring
pop, bubblegum thong, sweet visage suggests
she is a shell you could tell anything Continue reading “Womannotated – Hot Chocolate!”→
Burning House Press are excited to welcome NEVER ANGELINE NøRTH as our JUNE 2020 guest editor! As of today NEVER will take over editorship of Burning House Press online for the full month of JUNE.
Submissions are open from today – 1st JUNE and will remain open until 23RD JUNE.
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