LB Sedlacek – Cajun Mutt Press

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 06/07/24

June 7, 2024 James D. Casey IV

The Monster in the Mist

Hand stamped
the language
is unfamiliar
if you
didn’t live
it, if
you didn’t
hide it
how easy
sleight of hand
how easy
to cover
with smiles
and accomplishments
but the fear
the danger
measured, weighed
now out
in the open
the creature
gets too
confident, arrogant
extremely real
and then
caught whether
or not
you believe it.

LB Sedlacek is an award-winning writer and poet. Her latest poetry book is Unresponsive Sky published by Purple Unicorn Media. Her latest book of short stories is The Renovator & Motor Addiction published by Alien Buddha Press. She has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize both in poetry. Her mystery book, The Glass River, was nominated for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Prize. She also enjoys swimming and reading.

Instagram: @lbsedlacek
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http://www.lbsedlacek.com

CMP Featured Writers March 2024

March 1, 2024March 1, 2024 James D. Casey IV

We’ve entered March, it’s starting to warm up outside, and Night Owl Narrative No.3 is officially available!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVF469HX
(Links to 1 & 2 will be in the comments.)

Issue No. 3 Contributors:

Ben Holland, John Burroughs, Blu K. Boss, Scott Laudati, Jay Passer, A.L. Locke, Michael Duckwall, Ron Whitehead, Jim Murdoch, Wayne F. Burke, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, Joe Szalinski, Efe Tusder, Randy Barnes, Roy Duffield, Dan Flore III, LB Sedlacek, William Teets, William David Pollard, Robert Ragan, Dan Denton, Heath Brougher, Dee Allen, Lynn White, Wendy Cartwright, Sanjeev Sethi, Daniel S. Irwin, Austin Burrows, Wolfgang Carstens, Merritt Waldon, Jonathan S Baker, Rob Azevedo

Details about issue 4 coming soon! All I need to do is button up a few things, and it’ll be ready for April. Michael Duckwall’s artwork will be on the cover!!

7.2 SkullQuake by Michael Duckwall is also available!! Brother Duck offers up pieces of his soul in artistic and poetic form in this beautiful little chapbook! You can get in touch with him for a signed copy or follow this link to find it on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVG31R8S

I’m also about to start working on the rest of the book manuscript submissions! I wanted to get a few copies of the magazine under my belt first. You’ll be hearing from me soon if you’ve sent one. Hold Fast.

Below is the list of this month’s featured writers. Send 1-3 poems to cajunmuttpress@gmail.com to be considered for a spot. Send work for Night Owl Narrative to the same email. I’m taking art, short stories, flash fiction, poetry, photography, columns, articles, interviews, etc for the magazine. Anything Goes. Please include a bio and author photo with ALL submissions!

Y’all Keep Kicking Ass Out There!

Big Love, Write On,
JDCIV
🤟💀📚
🦉🎟️🦇

CMP Featured Writers, March 2024:

Still Life With Cyclops (an ebook)
by Jay Passer
03/01/24

Last Scramble
by Jay Simpson
03/04/24

Ring in the New
by Wayne Russell
03/06/24

sun up
by Botched Resignation
03/08/24

Vernon Vernon Vernon
by Wendy Cartwright
03/11/24

But isn’t this how
by Katrina Kaye
03/13/24

Rock Poets
by David Alec Knight
03/15/24

Love Is A Butcher
by Rob Azevedo
03/18/24

Leave The Light On
by JDCIV
03/20/24

Some Guy
by Dan Provost
03/22/24

A One-Trick Pony does the Moonwalk
by Jim Murdoch
03/25/24

Heaven’s Gate
by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
03/27/24

Finding New Ways to Eat Shit & Smile
by Danny D. Ford
03/29/24

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 02/17/23

February 17, 2023 James D. Casey IV

Physics and Mechanics

Lie in skin
does it fit
just right and
how does it
feel tight loose
do you like
the color the
smoothness the way
it lays across
the bones do
you like the
way it feels
when someone else
touches it or
you nick it
or cut it
or turn it
every which way
and can you
keep it clean
free of toxins
chemicals or burns
words and actions
so you can
trade it in
get credit for
repairs or just
wear it as
long as it
belongs to you.

LB Sedlacek has had poems and stories appear in a variety of journals and zines. Her poetry books include “Swim,” “The Architect of French Fries,” “The Poet Next Door,” “Simultaneous Submissions,” “Happy Little Clouds,” and “Words and Bones.” Her short stories “Backwards Wink” and “Sight Unseen” both won 1st Place Prose for different issues of “Branches” literary magazine in 2022. Her latest fiction book is “The Jackalope Committee and Other Tales” published by Alien Buddha Press. Her fiction books include the award nominated mystery “The Glass River” and “Four Thieves of Vinegar & Other Short Stories.” LB also likes to swim and read. Find out more at: http://www.lbsedlacek.com

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 04/13/22

April 13, 2022 James D. Casey IV

All Things Natural

Yawns and shadows don’t seem
like they should go together —
not unlike a giant yellow M
glowing in the woods
as bright as the moon would be
if it were out. And the
rapid report of nearby
rifle hunting squirrel,
possum (it happens in the south
you know) wrecks my dinner,
a simple bowl of vegetable
soup (no need to hunt these
veggies down). My mailbox
is stuffed with junk mail, some
of it advertising the giant yellow
M. I think of the boys and their
rifles and wonder how close they’d
have to be to knock out the neon
to keep it from shading the moon.

LB Sedlacek has had poems and stories published in a variety of journals and zines. Some of her poetry books are “Swim” (Alien Buddha Press), “I’m No ROBOT” (Cyberwit), “Happy Little Clouds” (Guerilla Genesis Press), “Simultaneous Submissions” (Cyberwit), and “Words and Bones” (Finishing Line Press). Her first short story collection, “Four Thieves of Vinegar & Other Short Stories” came out on Leap Day 2020 from Alien Buddha Press. She also served as a Poetry Editor for “ESC! Magazine” and published the free resource for poets, “The Poetry Market Ezine,” from 2001-2020. In her free time, LB likes to swim, read and attempt to play the ukulele.