Stories by Mathew Paust

Author meets unflattering reviewer in bar 3203 views
Gasp and Dash 2303 views
The crack 2174 views
Executive sweet 2191 views
Play it, Sam 1668 views
Damned Writers 2052 views
Snatch X 1477 views
Love? 1832 views
Danger Above, Danger Below 1534 views
Grace for Mao 1682 views
404 1570 views
Paleo Prophet 831 views
Voices of the Dying 795 views
Why Men Compete 1406 views
Come Monday 979 views
Tree Voices (revised) 1600 views
Halloween Hangover 1557 views
The Little Dog from Outer Space 1462 views
The Fifth Snatch 1309 views
Unveiling Kirkiss Automated Amazon Reviews!!! 1473 views
Glory Hobble 1335 views
Cloudstopper 1327 views
Balls 1452 views
Conjured love 1739 views
Lemony snickers on Route 66 1408 views
Snatch XII 1277 views
The not so great Popsicle caper 1605 views
Lucky Strike 1005 views
Snatch (6) 1291 views
MOMENT 801 views
Snatch (XIV) 1450 views
TPP or... 1399 views
Counter intuit 1296 views
Sparrow and Mockingbird Greet the Dawn 1293 views
Query 763 views
The Haunting 1221 views
Your party invitation just arrived (guest poem by Carolyn Martin) 690 views
Note from the wilderness 1512 views
Work Room 1303 views
Urgencies 1046 views
Good Deed Punished (Matthew IV) 1273 views
Attacking Panic 739 views
Blue Ridge 929 views
A Sometimes Niggling Notion 1319 views
The Atlantic 1343 views
Hospice Valediction 893 views
Boardroom Bullshit 1342 views
Dithyrambic 1236 views
Shout to the dead 1199 views
Peacemaker 1593 views
Trouble behind, trouble ahead, and you know that notion's stole from the Dead 929 views
Two poems by Kitty Boots 1349 views
Spider and Fly Cafe 1112 views
Her 1117 views
Snatch XIII 1237 views
Perilous Joy 1093 views
Balloon Seller 1222 views
Oops... 941 views
The Tree 1384 views
Donnie's end 1231 views
Perils of Poetry in a Pandemic 695 views
In the Woods 1002 views
Noir in cadence 897 views
Snatch XI 1491 views
Lunch at Luigi's 1198 views
Four hearts and a vase of jonquils 1405 views
Out of the frying pan... 879 views
snatch 4 1240 views
Old Man in the Tub with MacGyver 709 views
On the Bench (Matthew III) 1258 views
Beating 886 views
Uniquer Than Thou 1113 views
Angel's Return 1510 views
Laughingly rejected by The New Yorker 1455 views
Sunrise at the Cock and Cooter Motel 1344 views
Snatch 9 (there's been a time lapse) 1313 views
Face to Face 1046 views
Dubious Appetite 803 views
Another "Accidental" Tryst 1309 views
Snatch 7 (come 11) 1188 views
May the Glad Inherit 1169 views
Heartlong 1240 views
Scent of danger 996 views
Honoring Heritage 1201 views
Off the Record 1002 views
Blood on Her Hands 1168 views
Grace 1212 views
Snatch 8 (the zombie flash sequence--it never dies) 1280 views
Tree voices (revised) 1176 views
Wild turkey chase 899 views
Why Men Compete 1049 views
More news, another fugue... 620 views
Introducing Molloy Foppiano 685 views
Prisoners (edited) 1256 views
Shakespeare's Dark Lady -- John Hudson (review disguised as fiction) 993 views
Manliness!! *urp* 1135 views
When the Songbirds Went Silent in Cheerytown 1336 views
Hardaway's Poems Piss Off DC Bigwig 1222 views
Mountain godfather 802 views
Snarket 1170 views

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Mathew Paust

Location	Hampton Roads, Va
Occupation	Writer
Website	http://mdpaust.blogspot.com/

Books by Mathew Paust

IF THE WOODSMAN IS LATE: Tales of Gro...

by Mathew Paust

Booklocker.com, Inc., 2011.

EXECUTIVE PINK

by Mathew Paust

Booklocker.com, Inc., 2010.

Sacrifice

by Mathew Paust

Bartleby Scriveners Assoc., 2012.

About Me

Midwest bred Southern transplant, ex-daily journalist, ex-family man, apprentice novelist, open-minded randomly quirky poet stubbornly committed to reciprocity.

Why do you write?

Compulsion. Best way I know to quiet an addled mind.

Any favorite authors? Books?

I'm not going to bore you with an interminable list of obligatory and esoteric works with which any writer of conceit should be familiar and, at worst, pretend to hold in sacred esteem. Oh OK, OK!. here's one that if you haven't read it, you really should give it a whirl: "Super Sad True Love Story", by Gary Shteyngart.