David E. Matthews
David E. Matthews lives now in his home state of Texas, in the Hill Country. For 20 years, Unlikely Stories has published his barbaric yawp. A fact that stupefies him with pleasure & gratitude.
with her prowed breasts
with her hands down, like an irish dancer
she scurried slowly across
Recent Articles:
"Bray," "Sac," and "Good Game"
by Gale Acuff
excerpts from "Poet Resists: Alien Foreign and Domestic Policies"
by Gerard Sarnat
"Arbitrage," "Shutter," and "Funerary Meaning"
by Joel Chace
Gina’s Golden Hand
by Bob Ritchie
Membership
by John Grey
"Both" and "Simone"
by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
Hard Shots from Close Range
by Randy Stark
Seven Photographs, September 2019
by Garrett DeBell
"from Simple to Sublime," "The / main reason / for their misfortune," and "Embedded with the sports team"
by Mark Young
"Because the First Time I Was in New Orleans, I Died There," "Anger Song," and "In the Spirit of Negation"
by C. Derick Varn
Your Average Muslim-American Family
by Alia Hussain Vancrown
A Star to Guide Me
by Simon Read
Megan Burns
an Unlikely Salon
Four Photographs, August 2019
by KJ Hannah Greenberg
"Shipwreck," "Without Myself," and "I could remember my futures"
by Kyle Trujillo
Vincent A. Cellucci with Zack Godshall
an Unlikely Salon
Vincent A. Cellucci in New Orleans
by Vincent A. Cellucci
Christopher Shipman in New Orleans
by Christopher Shipman
Izzy Oneiric in New Orleans
by Izzy Oneiric
Jonathan Penton in New Orleans
by Jonathan Penton
Boy
by Cole Noone
"First Shot of the Philippine-American War, Feb. 4, 1899" and "Poetry and Plumbing"
by Karlo Sevilla
"Don't Fear the Rainbow" and "A Picnic Full of Secrets"
by Jeff Bagato
"Cold" and "Denial"
by Mónika Mesterházi, trans. Gabor G Gyukics and Belinda Subraman
"We Watch the Weather Turn," "Playing the Border Bet," and "We Turn Our Eyes to the Favored"
by R.T. Castleberry
"Tales from Pump #3" and "Ghost Bike"
by Matt McGee
Sam
by Kate LaDew
Year of the Rabbit
by James Penha
"The Hair that Rocked" and "Rearview Mirror"
by Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Opulent Mobility
by A. Laura Brody
Cameron Diaz
by Robert Ronnow
Florentina wants to be a writer
by Sandra Arnold
Hannah Chalew and Bill Lavender
an Unlikely Salon