Mark William Lindberg

My short story “In Our Cars” about an unfortunate summer love triangle is in great company in this anthology from Lethe Press edited by Joe Okonkwo. Purchase here.

A clearing in the woods hosts a series of displaced persons fleeing an unnamed disaster. Structured as a series of short stories or vignettes, FOREST STATION follows not a character but a place, a clearing in the woods, as a stream of people all headed in the same direction take a few moments to rest on their various journeys and play out quiet scenes of interpersonal drama. At turns meditative, violent, and inspirational, the glimpses given into these lives in transition highlight shared human vocabularies of loss and recovery and put an intense focus on the details of behavior to consider the ways we treat each other when in crisis. And as the stories go on and start to take a toll on the architecture and life of the clearing, an outside presence begins to make itself known. Mark William Lindberg, author of QUEER ON A BENCH and 81 NIGHTMARES queers the end of the world with this intricate work of meditative post-apocalyptica.

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An intimate ride through the thoughts, dreams, and prayers of a city queer on a bench in a park. Em sits down on a bench in a park and makes a deal with themself not to get up until something happens. What follows is a formally experimental stream of consciousness novella that digs deeply into the way we think about the world and view both the people around us and ourselves. Em’s relentless self-examination brings up beautiful insights and frustrating questions about privilege, gender, and religion, as the prose itself morphs from inner monologue to daydream, from journal to poetry to stage play. Emerging queer author Mark William Lindberg, author of 81 NIGHTMARES, gives us another unique look at a human mind at work.

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Genderqueer photographer Jay confronts a horrifying nemesis in a series of ever-intensifying nightmares that bring them closer and closer to a forgotten truth.

Immerse yourself in Jay’s dreamlife as they navigate hospital hallways and forest paths, process traumatic events and unearth buried memories, as they confront a dark creature that emerges out of their unrelenting stream of nightmares, a disgusting horror they can only call “the monstrosity.”

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I’ve got two very different TWINE pieces available to play through. The follow-a-character-through-a-queer-rock-event story of PANOPLY OF D*STRUCTION AT THE UNDERTOW and the choose-your-own-what’s-it-called style SPACE STORY WHERE YOU DO THINGS.

Enjoy!

Hi! I’m Mark. I write queer queer fiction, do lots of volunteer work, occasionally teach and occasionally make theater. I have three short novels available currently on Amazon, have had several short stories published, and wrote and directed an officially licensed stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway for Vassar College. My tweets are mostly political and my Instagrams are mostly artsy. I live with a man and a dog in Queens, NY.