Stories by Mathew Paust

Author meets unflattering reviewer in bar 3179 views
Gasp and Dash 2282 views
The crack 2160 views
Executive sweet 2163 views
Play it, Sam 1658 views
Damned Writers 2016 views
Snatch X 1464 views
Love? 1811 views
Danger Above, Danger Below 1522 views
Grace for Mao 1665 views
404 1552 views
Paleo Prophet 812 views
Voices of the Dying 783 views
Why Men Compete 1390 views
Come Monday 963 views
Tree Voices (revised) 1578 views
Halloween Hangover 1540 views
The Little Dog from Outer Space 1440 views
The Fifth Snatch 1285 views
Unveiling Kirkiss Automated Amazon Reviews!!! 1454 views
Glory Hobble 1308 views
Cloudstopper 1309 views
Balls 1438 views
Conjured love 1723 views
Lemony snickers on Route 66 1400 views
Snatch XII 1244 views
The not so great Popsicle caper 1586 views
Lucky Strike 990 views
Snatch (6) 1277 views
MOMENT 787 views
Snatch (XIV) 1438 views
TPP or... 1380 views
Counter intuit 1278 views
Sparrow and Mockingbird Greet the Dawn 1277 views
Query 745 views
The Haunting 1202 views
Your party invitation just arrived (guest poem by Carolyn Martin) 668 views
Note from the wilderness 1498 views
Work Room 1287 views
Urgencies 1024 views
Good Deed Punished (Matthew IV) 1260 views
Attacking Panic 732 views
Blue Ridge 915 views
A Sometimes Niggling Notion 1304 views
The Atlantic 1331 views
Hospice Valediction 878 views
Boardroom Bullshit 1326 views
Dithyrambic 1221 views
Shout to the dead 1182 views
Peacemaker 1569 views
Trouble behind, trouble ahead, and you know that notion's stole from the Dead 913 views
Two poems by Kitty Boots 1333 views
Spider and Fly Cafe 1091 views
Her 1078 views
Snatch XIII 1212 views
Perilous Joy 1078 views
Balloon Seller 1204 views
Oops... 926 views
The Tree 1371 views
Donnie's end 1206 views
Perils of Poetry in a Pandemic 684 views
In the Woods 983 views
Noir in cadence 877 views
Snatch XI 1467 views
Lunch at Luigi's 1176 views
Four hearts and a vase of jonquils 1386 views
Out of the frying pan... 862 views
snatch 4 1221 views
Old Man in the Tub with MacGyver 697 views
On the Bench (Matthew III) 1242 views
Beating 874 views
Uniquer Than Thou 1100 views
Angel's Return 1491 views
Laughingly rejected by The New Yorker 1441 views
Sunrise at the Cock and Cooter Motel 1319 views
Snatch 9 (there's been a time lapse) 1282 views
Face to Face 1025 views
Dubious Appetite 792 views
Another "Accidental" Tryst 1285 views
Snatch 7 (come 11) 1172 views
May the Glad Inherit 1145 views
Heartlong 1220 views
Scent of danger 986 views
Honoring Heritage 1183 views
Off the Record 991 views
Blood on Her Hands 1136 views
Grace 1198 views
Snatch 8 (the zombie flash sequence--it never dies) 1258 views
Tree voices (revised) 1163 views
Wild turkey chase 894 views
Why Men Compete 1028 views
More news, another fugue... 613 views
Introducing Molloy Foppiano 664 views
Prisoners (edited) 1240 views
Shakespeare's Dark Lady -- John Hudson (review disguised as fiction) 972 views
Manliness!! *urp* 1121 views
When the Songbirds Went Silent in Cheerytown 1318 views
Hardaway's Poems Piss Off DC Bigwig 1208 views
Mountain godfather 788 views
Snarket 1159 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.