Tag: Ryan Quinn Flanagan

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 06/24/24

James D. Casey IV

Face Painter

There was a sudden sharp sting.
The blood poured out over the concrete.

It appeared black in the darkness.
He couldn’t even be sure it was blood at first.

Then the bastard stabbed him in the face again.
Below the right orbital bone this time.

He hadn’t seen it coming.
Saw the fist and thought it a punch.

Something jumping out of the nearby garbage
and running off with this sudden commotion.

Blood running down into his eyes and mouth,
he threw a winging punch back that connected.

It was enough to scare the bastard off.
Dropping the blade, he remembered that shiny metallic
sound as it bounced off the pavement.

No one there to help,
he shuffled out towards the street.

Collapsing by the waste basket
full of dirty syringes.

©2024 Ryan Quinn Flanagan All rights reserved.

Brother Flanagan

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many mounds of snow. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Cajun Mutt Press, Dumpster Fire Press, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 03/27/24

James D. Casey IV

Heaven’s Gate

We were sitting around
in that basement party along Hickory Lane
when the Heaven’s Gate
came on the news.

Someone said:
All those people didn’t
just kill themselves!

Well, it wasn’t a serial killer,
someone else said.
How many murderers would it take
to break in and kill all those people?

I said nothing.
Nipping at a bottle of Scotch.
Listening to the various arguments.

Then they turned off the television
and cranked the stereo.

And I got real warm.
Like it was summer when
it wasn’t.

©2024 Ryan Quinn Flanagan All rights reserved.

Brother Flanagan

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many mounds of snow. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Cajun Mutt Press, Dumpster Fire Press, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.

CMP Featured Writers March 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 11/01/23

James D. Casey IV

Hanging Kevin 

I didn’t know until an aunt told me. 
A few years after my family moved away  
out of the neighborhood when  
I was nine. 
  
Different school and different friends. 
But you remember those many cherished bicycle hours 
like an original progenitor.  
  
And they found my friend Kevin hanging in his  
mother’s walk-in closet. 
Discovered by his little sister Veronica, apparently. 
In that unassuming duplex three doors down from our place 
along Bernick Drive.   
 
After their parents divorced  
and a new stepfather moved in. 
My aunt said the new man was hard on Kevin, 
was said to be a mean drunk. 
  
I don’t know if that drinking thing was true. 
I was just a kid. 
  
But I remember my father watching me. 
As though I could be next. 
  
Hearing about hanging Kevin one night after a soccer game. 
Still in uniform, in that Rose Street basement while  
my aunt Marilyn and my father caught up.  
  
I didn’t know what to think or feel or say. 
I was just a kid. 
But the world didn’t seem to care about that. 
  
So I didn’t say anything  
and learned to stay very quiet  
for years. 
  
My father’s eyes all over me 
like a nest of angry 
hornets.

©2023 Ryan Quinn Flanagan All rights reserved.

Brother Flanagan

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many mounds of snow. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Cajun Mutt Press, Dumpster Fire Press, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.

VICTORY SLAB (CajunMutt Press 2022) by Ryan Quinn Flanagan
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMVG66QY

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 09/01/23

James D. Casey IV

Order Up

These two masked men barged in  
and blasted everyone. 
  
Before fleeing on foot. 
It was over in seconds. 
  
The restaurant now completely quiet. 
  
The kid in the kitchen was in shock. 
Just kept cooking food and filling the orders. 
  
Ringing that little silver bell 
before mechanically grabbing the next ticket  
and starting all over again.

©2023 Ryan Quinn Flanagan All rights reserved.

RQF

Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many mounds of snow. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Cajun Mutt Press, Dumpster Fire Press, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.