Queer author, husband, gamer, tea-drinker, emotional support person to an anxious chihuahua. He/they. Volunteer work includes Crisis Text Line, New York Cares, and Project Gutenberg. Theater degree that gets less and less use as the years go by, but still a proud member of theatrical collective The Nerve Tank. I try to keep it simple. I adore using ‘queer’ as a verb.
As an author I’m sort of starting over. Previous novellas as Mark William Lindberg have now all been rereleased (see below).
Books
Black Hole Recess
A small town has been set upon by a mysterious, seemingly-sentient black cloud that snatches up anyone who stays outside for more than a few minutes. A motley group of kids leave the school they’ve been trapped in for days and set off on a journey to find a way to stop the unknowable violence that daily terrorizes their lives.
away from the mountain
Told in fragmented mini-chapters, ‘away from the mountain’ follows a cast of survivors as they navigate a ruined wintry landscape, come together, and fall apart. A nonlinear piece of meditative post-apocalyptica.
Kindle exclusive
Queer on a Bench
Em sits down on a bench in the park and makes a deal with themself not to get up until something happens. What follows is a stationary epic that moves from stream of consciousness to daydream to memoir to playscript and digs into the origins of our very thoughts on queerness, religion, sex, gender, and public spaces.
(buy in paperback to appreciate the full original cover art by Daniel Joseph Durkin)
Forest Station
A clearing in the woods hosts a series of displaced persons fleeing an unnamed disaster. 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 survivors pass through and start to take a toll on the architecture and life of the clearing, an outside presence begins to make itself known...
81 Nightmares
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."
CW: body horror, physical assault, violence
Short stories
“In Our Cars” part of Best Gay Stories 2017, Lethe Press
Online fun
Panoply of D*struction at The Undertow (Twine-your-own-adventure) Choose who to follow through a queer rock show at The Undertow where surprises await everyone caught up in the drama…
Space Story Where You Do Things (Twine-your-own-adventure) You’re on assignment for your colony locating a precious new source of energy. Oops, you’re dead. Try again!
Short fictions and poetry on Wattpad @MWLind. Yes, during lockdown I tried to start an earnest Wattpad presence bringing quiet contemplation to a very noisy online space. Feel free to peruse!
theatereveryday (Tumblr fiction project from 2014, read it while it lasts!) Intertwining careers and existential crises in the world(s) of theater culminate in several figurative - and one literal - explosions. Written in daily installments over the course of a single year.
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