
Short stories, novels and poetry by
Tom Barlow
PUBLICATIONS
Tom's writings have appeared in over 200 magazines and anthologies
Short Stories and Books, Print
1. "A Passing Acquaintance," The Duck & Herring Pocket Field Guide, Winter, 2005
2. "Hot Flash," Staccato Magazine, Summer 2006
3. "Left in Right Field," The Duck & Herring Pocket Field Guide, Summer, 2006
4. "The Adequate Woman Takes to the Trees," The Apalachee Review, Summer 2006
5. "Five Places You Must Visit After You Die," Book of Dead Things, April 2007
6. "Good Girl, Bad Rep," Steel City Review Anthology #1, Fall 2007
7. "Call Me Mr. Positive," Intergalactic Medicine Show print anthology, Tor, August, 2008
(This story was called "brilliantly sardonic" by Publisher's Weekly)
8. "Honeymoon at the Pearly Gate," Desolate Places anthology, Spring 2008
(Reprinted as "Lune De Meil A Las Porte Du Paradis" Galaxie Science Fiction November, 2011)
9. "I'll Hate Me Bye and Bye," Hard-boiled Horror anthology, Spring 2008
10. "Give Me Your Nightmare," Sand Summer 2008
11. "Schadenfreude," Coach's Midnight Diner, Summer 2009
12. "Excavation," Redivider, Spring 2010
13. "Take It Like A Man," Ghost Anthology, Drollerie Press, Fall 2010
14. "I Regret I Must Eat You Now," Encounters Magazine, 2010
15. "Luck of the Harvest," Crossed Genres #22, Fall 2010 and Best Of Crossed Genre #2 anthology, Feb. 2011
16. "Brothers and Sisters," Best New Writers 2011 anthology, 2011
17. "Out On a Limb," Therefore I Am, Digital Science Fiction anthology, 2011
18. "Smothered and Covered," Needle: A Magazine of Noir, Spring 2012
19. "Goat Rodeo," William and Mary Review, Spring 2012
20. "Safety in Numbers," Battlespace Anthology, Summer 2012
21. "The Perpetual Pill," I'll Never Go Away Anthology #2, Winter 2012
22. "Snowman," Vector Press, 2013
23. "The Pissing Man," Thrice Fiction, Spring 2013
24. "Smothered and Covered," Best American Mystery Stories 2013, Winter 2013-14
25. Novel, "I'll Meet You Yesterday," Bundoran Press, Fall 2013
26. Short Story Collection, "Welcome to the Goat Rodeo," PageSpring Press, Fall 2013
27. "One Heart, So Many Oreos," Cosmic Vegetable, December 2013
28. "Family of Man," Contact: Stories of the New World, December 2013
29. "The King of Flotsamland," Amok anthology, Spring 2014
30. "Vintage Mark," Pulp Modern, Summer 2014
31. "This Might Hurt a Bit," Pure Fantasy and Sci Fi, Summer 2014
32. "Slice," Plan B Ominibus, Fall 2014
33. "Heirloom," Floyd County Moonshine, Spring 2015
34. "Sisyphus at Twelve," Kzine Magazine Issue 12, May 2015
35. "Honor Among Thieves," Mysterical-E Magazine, Summer 2015
36. "No Loose Ends," Dames and Sin Anthology, Summer 2016
37. "Empathy," Stories from the Near Future Anthology, Summer 2016
38. "The Youngtown Tune-up," Mystery Weekly Magazine, February 2016
39. "The Jackpot," Thuglit Magazine #22, March 2016
40. "Second-hand Monkey," Best of Ohio Short Stories Vol. #2, Fall 2016
41. "Tornado," The Neighbors Anthology, Jan 2017
42. "The Anvil," The Sonder Review, Summer 2017
43. "Selfie," Red Room Magazine, Winter 2017
44. "Dropping the Rhino," Bards and Sages Anthology, October 2017
45. "Death Is Not the Worst Thing," Enter the Rebirth Anthology, Summer 2018
46. "Chemo Queen," Switchblade Magazine, Spring 2018
47. "Abandoned," Landlocked Lyres, Spring 2018
48. "Jigsaw," Broadswords and Blasters Issue 7, October 2018
49. "The Bargain," Switchblade Magazine Issue Sixx, Summer 2018
50. "The Forsaken Wall," Alternative Theologies Anthology, Fall 2018
51. "Leave the World a Better Place," Tough Magazine, May 2018
52. "The Discovered Country," Suspicious Activities Anthology, Winter 2018
53. "Scout's Honor," Forklift Ohio, Winter 2018-19
54. "Hic," Knucklehead Noir Anthology, Spring 2019
55. "Honor Guard," Columbus Noir, Spring 2020
56. "Pilgrims of the Milky Way," Space Opera Libretti Anthology, Winter 2020
57. Short story collection, Odds of Survival, January 2019
58. "Heirloom," Best Laid Plans Anthology, Spring 2019
59. "Love in the Time of Silicone," Pulp Modern Tech Noir issue, October 2019
60. "Blood Will Have Blood," Kzine Magazine, January 2020
61. "Pesticide," Tidbits Anthology, Winter 2019
62. "The Gift," Mystery Tribune, 2020
63. Novel, Bringing Knickerbocker Home, Amazon, 2020
64. Novel, Blood of the Poppy, Amazon, 2020
65. Novel, Everything Is Inevitable, Amazon, 2020
66. "Comfortably Numb," Rust and Glass, Fall 2021
Short Stories and Books, Electronic
1. "The Writing Life," Hobart, December 2005
2. "A Slave to His Possessions," Hiss Quarterly, June 2006
3. "Cast of Characters," Defenestration Magazine, May 2006
4. "Killing Myself Has Changed My Life," Afterburn SF, July 2006
5. "Your Friend on the Outside," Thieves Jargon, July 13th, 2006
6. "Call Me Mr. Positive," Intergalactic Medicine Show, February, 2007
7. "My Daughter of Many Colours," Coyote Wild, Spring 2007
8. "Good Girl, Bad Rep," Steel City Review, Summer/Fall 2007
9. "Cats Discover Text Messaging," Temenos Magazine, Spring 2008
10. "Assassin," Fiction at Work, September 22, 2008
11. "Chicken Soup for the Sadomasochist," 3:AM Magazine, January 2009
12. "Luck of the Harvest," Crossed Genres #22, September 2010
13. "Out on a Limb," Digital Science Fiction, July 2011
14. "Not All Love Smells Like Roses," Anomalous Press, 2011
15. "Jester," Penduline Press, Summer 2012
16. "Cash," Heater Magazine, March 2013
17. "Clutter Coach," SQ Magazine, Spring 2014
18. "Hic," Plots with Guns, Winter 2013-14
19. "The Universal Liar's Club of Storm Lake, Iowa," Common Oddities, March 2014
20. "Palm Trees," Fifty-Word Stories, May 1, 2014
21. "Disappointment," Fifty-Word Stories, July 23, 2014
22. "Buzz," Olentangy Review, September 2014
23. "I've Known You for a Thousand Years," Nebula Rift, November 2014
24. "Another Man's Treasure," Beyond Science Fiction, July 2015
25. "Remember Me," Siren Literary Magazine, July 2015
26. "Vigilante," Heater Magazine, Summer 2015
27. "Even Steven," EXPOUND Magazine, September 2015
28. "The Art of Addition by Subtraction," Ekphrastic Review, March 2016
29. "Sweet Dreams," Perihelion SF, April 2017
30. "The Timid Librarian," Manslaughter Review, July 2017
31. "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Dead Fish," Tough Magazine, October 2017
32. "To Leave the World a Better Place," Tough Magazine, April 2018
33. "Desert Justice," Tough Magazine, January 2019
34. "Fire," Yellow Mama, April 2019
35. "Vacuum," Crack the Spine, Issue 259, Fall 2019
36. "Family Reunion," Tough Magazine, Summer 2021
37. "Clothes Make the Man," Idle Ink, Fall 2021
38. "The Reckless Coward," Hamilton Stone Review, Spring 2022
Poems
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"Yin Days," Remington Review, 1973
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Somonka poem with Diane Kendig, They Said, Fall, 2018
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"If All Time is Simultaneous," , January 2020
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"Predator," Your Daily Poem , August 29, 2019
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"In Memoriam, D.F.W.," , Fall 2019
6. "Smiles, Behind Cupped Hands," Harbinger Asylum, Winter 19-20
7. "The Mother in the Manhole," Headline Poetry & Press, February 2020
8. "Behind Closed Doors," Headline Poetry & Press, February 2020
9. "Darkness," Headline Poetry & Press, February 2020
10. "Deluge," Heron Clan, April 2020
11. "Memorial Day in the Cemetery, Navarre, Ohio," Heron Clan, April 2020
12. "Lucy in the Sky," Live Nude Poems, May 2020
13. "Halo," Voicemail Poetry, February 2020
14. "The Red-tipped Cane," Sonic Boom, April 2020
15. "Welcome Home," Love Notes You'll Never Read, Spring 2020
16. "Saturation," Love Notes You'll Never Read, Spring 2020
17. "The Derby," The Muse, Spring 2020
18. "My Last Pair of New Shoes," Bluepepper, March 2020
19. "Prom Queen," Five-Two Poetry, April 2020
20. "Beautiful Dreams," NGY Review, April 2020
21. "Sheltering in Place," Pendemic, May 2020
22. "A Chance Meeting," Subterranean Blue Poetry, 2021
23. "The Imposter Syndrome," Marathon Literary Review, August 2020
24. "A Love Story," Five-Two Poetry, October 2020
25. "This is Not that Poem," Plainsongs, January 2021
26. "The Inverted Yield Curve," The Aurora Review, December 2020
27. "Winter Vacation," The Bangor Literary Journal, December 2020
28. "Anything Goes," Five-Two Poetry, February 2021
29. "Orphans," Aji Magazine, Spring 2021
30. "Response to a Card Found in a Second-Hand Collection of William Stafford Poems"
Hole in the Head Review, February 2021
31. "Alone," Global Poemic, Winter 2020-21
32. "Faith," Identity and Truth anthology, March 2021
33. "Anniversary," Your Daily Poem, February 9, 2021
34. "The Stages of Man, 2021," Your Daily Poem, May 15, 2021
35. "More," The Metaworker, March 1, 2021
36. "Breathe," [insert] Zine Ancestry issue, March 2021
37. "Another World," Five-Two Poetry, April 2021
38. "Surprise," Reckoning 6, Spring 2021
39. "The Invisible Man with a Shoe Rag Knows Everything," Proem, Summer 2021
40. "In the Land of Money," The New York Quarterly, Summer 2021
41. "After the Falcon," MockingHeart Review, June 2021
42. "Folk Wisdom," Tether's End Magazine, Summer 2021
43. "A Good Walk Spoiled," Mono, June 2021
44. "Customers," Corvus Review, Summer 2021
45. "Frippery," Jupiter Review, June 2021
46. "Teeter-totter," Five-Two Poetry, Summer 2021
47. "Grievances," Backchannels, Summer 2021
48. "Pyrophytes," Topical Poetry, August 15, 2021
49. "Twelve Examples of Liberosis," Modern Poetry Quarterly Review, Summer 2021
50. "Ringlorn," Modern Poetry Quarterly Review, Summer 2021
51. "Symmetry," North Dakota Review, Summer 2021
52. "Tinsel," 13 Days of Christmas anthology, December 2022
53. "Christmas Yet to Come," 13 Days of Christmas anthology, December 2022
54. "Tedium," I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing anthology, March 2022
55. "Winter's Heart," Pendemics Journal, November 2021
56. "This Is the Year," Pendemics Journal, November 2021
57. "Fortress," Sybil Journal, December 2021
58. "Soldiers in Heaven," Sybil Journal, December 2021
59. "The Conchie," Sybil Journal, December 2021
60. "Ear Witness," Five-Two Poetry, December 2021
61. "Test to Failure," Superpresent, December 2021
62. "Ingredients," Superpresent, December 2021
63. "To Our Executor (first draft)," Panoplyzine, January 2022
64. "The Motor Mouth Boy at Christmas," The Broken City, December 2021
65. "The Stoic," Bindweed Magazine, April 2022
66. "Gardening Lessons," Bindweed Magazine, April 2022
67. "The Beat," Bindweed Magazine, April, 2022
68. "And Still You Said No," Agape Review, December 2021
69. "Friction," Masque & Spectacle, March 2022
70. "Leavetaking," Riverbed Review, January 2022
71. "Shoveling Snow," Rust and Glass, January 2022
72. "Haiku #10," Three Line Poetry, Winter 2022
73. "When the Music's Over," Live Nude Poems, April 2022
74. "Gone to Ash," Marathon Literary Review, February 2022
75. "Night Troops," The Woolgathering Review, February 2022
76. "The Way of Time," Nine Tenths Press, Spring 2022
77. "Godzilla at Sixty-Eight," Bombfire, March 12, 2022
78. "Wayward Fingers," Trampoline, Summer 2022
79. "Kneel and Pray," Topical Poetry, May 8, 2022
80. "Bush Meat," Willow Wept Review, September 2022
81. "Picasso vs. Mrs. Potato Head," Big City Lit, Summer 2022
82. "Hunger," The Pine Cone Review, Summer 2022
83. "Syncopation," The Pine Cone Review, Summer 2022
84. "The Resentment Box," The Pine Cone Review, Summer 2022
85. "A Gathering of Shadows," Pinhole Poetry, October 2022
86. "Assumptions," The Inflectionist Review, Summer 2022
87. "And Your Name Is," Green Ink Review, June 2022
88. "Apps," Open Skies Anthology, Summer 2022
89. "The Planning Meeting," Open Skies Anthology, Summer 2022
90. "Warlord," WorldPeace Special Ukraine Issue, Summer 2022
91. "Tranquility," Deep Overstock Journal, Summer 2022
92. "Destiny," RockPaperPoem, Summer 2022
93. "Nightclub America," Triggerfish, January 2023
94. "Freedom, First Grade," Topical Poetry, July 17, 2022
95. "Labor Day," Fiery Scribe Review, September 9, 2022
96. "Phonophobia," Fiery Scribe Review, September 9, 2022
97. "How to Avoid Those Awkward Moments," Ghost City Review Fall 2022
98. "Break It Down," Setu, August, 2022
99. "The Silence of the Sunshine," Common Threads, November, 2022
100. "When I Burn," Wise Owl, December 2022
101. "Twenty to the Dollar," Wise Owl, February 2023
102. "Jeffery Epstein Speaks From the Grave," The Five-Two, December 2022
103. "Doctor Zeus," Spilling Cocoa on Martin Amis, December 17, 2022
104. "Christmas to Come," Wingless Dreamer, Winter 2022
105. "Incandescence," The Farside Review, January 2023
106. "Haiku," Plum Tree Tavern, February 2023
107. "The Prophet," Quarter Press, Spring 2023
108. "Obligation," Sheila-Na-Gig, March 2023
109. "Trophy," Sheila-Na-Gig, March 2023
110. "Cash," Dissent, Summer 2023
111. "Zipper," Dissent, Summer 2023
112. "Three Cat Haiku," Concrete Wolf, Purr and Yowl issue, Spring 2023
113. "The Planet Killer," Backchannels Journal, Spring 2023
114. "American Gothic," Topical Poetry, April 9, 2023
115. "Solitude," Hobo Camp Review, May 2023
115. "Jacob Runs Away to the Circus," Hobo Camp Review, May 2023
116. "Celebration," Between the Lines, May 2023
Podcasts
1. "The Hard Way," Well Told Tales, June 15, 2007
2. "Give Me Your Nightmares," Cast Macabre, Fall 2010