Amazon.com: The Book of Robot: 9780692799673: Poyner, Ken: Books

2017 Elgin award nominee. Poetry exploring the development of sentience within robots, describing the thoughts and feelings and developing social understanding of the machines that share our lives.

Her parents are concerned that her boyfriend is two dimensional. Living entirely in one plane would limit his prospects. If the relationship became serious, they could predict he would become their ...

(Cover Art — Crow 0005 gel print by Anita Dime)           The Poetry       J.R. Acero     KNOWN & KNOWING   We are two strangers who happen to know the layout of each other’s childhoods; the origins o...

This year, we may not have enough rainbows for the rainbow eating contest pasted to the Founders Festival. There is still time. We hope for a storm front to go through, deliver a line of…

A collection of brief phantasmagorical tales. A professional cattle tuner who falls for a beautiful clothesline sander. . A member of the resistance warns his confederates of the efficacy of a new dec...

O:JA&L Poetry: All forms & styles Prose Poetry Ken Poyner ART THEORY There is an attempt to map his subject […]

Tipton Poetry Journal, located in the heartland of the Midwest, publishes quality poetry from Indiana and around the world. Statistics: This issue features 33 poets from the United States (24 unique

elsewhere magazine, issue 30 (fall 2026) — the prose poetry magazine. Featuring Morgan Matchuny, Meg Pokrass, Giles Goodland, Noah Soltau, Ken Poyner, and Iain Grinbergs.

Jason had convinced himself he was dating a real girl, until she asked him for a ride to the android factory where she could score an upgrade. She told him she was considerably behind, due to her data...

O:JA&L Poetry: All forms & styles Prose Poetry Ken Poyner UNDERSTANDING For a fistful of moments, I stare into the […]

O:JA&L Poetry: All forms & styles Prose Poetry Ken Poyner BALANCING THE RAPTURE Fewer were taken than we imagined might […]

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back to contents Ken Poyner Utility The great machine started: slowly at first, the slack in bands suffering into tension, small wheels half-spinning to strain. A flicker of lights racing across one s...

A man who worries he may not be capable of spurring his mermaid wife to conceive. A class of birds conflicted in their relationship with their kindred feathered overlords. A woman whose breasts sudden...

A collection of brief phantasmagorical tales. A professional cattle tuner who falls for a beautiful clothesline sander. . A member of the resistance warns his confederates of the efficacy of a new dec...

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Five Drabbles by Ken Poyner

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A vendor at the end of the commercial district says he has genuine bits of Oblivion available for sale.  He proposes he goes to the Edge, casts an empty jar on a string, then hauls it back.  He pre…

The Subterfuge To disguise the fact that she is carrying the plans for the assassination of our town council, she decides to cross the open space between

An exploration of the mathematics of sex in social terms.

Four Microfictions by Ken Poyner #TheMetaworker

Amazon.com: The Lechery of Fish Tuners: A Gathering of Curious Drabbles: 9798234082893: Poyner, Ken: Books

I have only been to the seafood restaurant once since the crabs took over. Waiting at the bar fora table was not the same experience: with the bartender scuttling sideways along the bar top,using leve...

Prose poems for y'all.

CAPABLE OF WEALTH Quibble hides the clown in his closet. In a few weeks the clown harvest will be closed and it will be too profound a preponderance of administrative legerdemain to fit one post-ha…

The town would rather not be gray. Citizens have no say in the matter. If they do not like being gray in a gray town, they can move to another town. There are red, blue…

Amazon.com: The Lechery of Fish Tuners: A Gathering of Curious Drabbles: 9798234082893: Poyner, Ken: Books

building permits renovations at Winchester House By Nicholas De Marino Out There By David Edwards something is moving, slowly… as slow as shadows on a cloudless full moon night Resident Poltergeist…

Something new from BMMP. Produced by Barking Moose Music Productions and TAMC.

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2017 Elgin award nominee. Poetry exploring the development of sentience within robots, describing the thoughts and feelings and developing social understanding of the machines that share our lives.

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THE LINK WEAKENS In the back corner where Thole makes room for used tools, used wire, second-hand nails, even used books, there is a book entitled “Stress Holds for the Neophyte”.  Most everyone who m...