It’s my pleasure to announce that my new collection Blabber, Chat, Shouting Match: 50 Dialogue-Only Fictions is available to order from corona\samizdat.
A book of 50 short stories by a unique, witty, and, if necessary, brutal author.
Blabber, Chat, Shouting Match: 50 Dialogue-Only Fictions takes the traditional genre of literary dialogue and interrogates the form through a fictional lens in our era of hyper-communication and viral misinformation. A product of a self-imposed, yearlong writing challenge, Greene’s book delivers a diverse collection of conversations. Bigfoot, gods, AI dating apps, serial killers, and men debating whose turn it is to cross a busy and blood-spattered road are just some of the characters you’ll meet in these philosophically charged and emotionally raw short stories.
I’d like to acknowledge all of the wonderful zines, reviews, journals, anthologies, and magazines which published stories from this collection. The Creative Café, Lit Up, Train Lit Magazine, The Green Light Literary Journal, Z Publishing, Public House Magazine, Midnight Mosaic, Defenestration Magazine, Gypsum Sound Tales, Raw Art Review, and The Metaphysical Review all have my heartfelt thanks for believing in my work. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Many thanks too goes to any and everyone who read my work in these publications or who gave valuable feedback on some or all of these stories. This includes the writing critique group I run, Tri-State Writers, and my beta readers, Laura Howell and Edi Salihu, as well as others who I’ve forgotten who helped shape a couple of the pieces I wrote many, many years ago and brought forward into this collection. And, of course, a zillion thanks goes to my wife, Libby, who helped polish my manuscript with her keen eye.
Thank you to everyone who buys a copy of Blabber, Chat, Shouting Match. I couldn’t do this without readers like you.
Randal Eldon Greene 