Northwestern '81

Root for the underdog -- they'll never let you down

email: clay h waters at claywaters dot com

Some of my published stories, poems, essays and reviews, (through 2006) in case anyone's interested.

"Cold Dreaming in an Empty Bed" & "Cat Sleep," poems, The Listening Eye, 2006

"Vicar Wallace Oversees the Church Dedication, 1844," & "Sex by Other Means," poems, River Oak Review, Summer 2006

Amy As It Approaches Zero, poem, Wild Violet, Vol. V Issue 2

Witching Hour, apocalyptic horror/science fiction, AtomJack Magazine, July 2006

California, 1980 , edgy coming-of-age story, AntiMuse, July 2006

Ten-Foot Two, Eyes of Blue, science fiction, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Summer 2005

Drop-Dead Gorgeous, murder mystery, Futures Anthology Magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2005

The Devils You Know, horror/science fiction story, Astounding Tales, September 2005

Waving to the Dead, horror story, Naked Snake Online, May 2005

Health Scare, poem, Plainsongs, Winter 2005

Duran Duran 2.0 -- a review of the band's comeback album, National Review Online October 2004

We Commend Her to the Stars, Neverary, October 2004

The Sound of Choir Practice in Heaven (7:30 To ~ ), As Heard From Hell poem, Hazmat Review v.5 no 2.

Definitions On Central Park West, poem, Small Spiral Notebook Summer 2002

Review of "Kill Your Idols" for National Review Online, August 2004

Two poems in Gnome online magazine, "Syringe" and "Ghost In The Machine"

" The Adventures of Smallpox Susie and Pandora Dan," short story for
Apocalypse Fiction:

my poetz.com page with Martha S. After The War and Passenger Pigeon, 1913

Master Seeks New Flesh, Chaos Theory: Tales Askew, 2004

The Times Remembers Reagan, National Review Online, June 2004

Raines on His Parade, on Howell Raines mega non-culpa in The Atlantic, National Review Online, April 2004

Burning Blair, a review of Burning Down My Masters' House by Jayson Blair, National Review Online, April 2004

The Guardian, short story, Outer Darkness, Spring 2004

"Public Lives" of Liberals, op-ed, The America Enterprise, March 2004

Gray Lady Warns Bush: Stay away on MLK Day, op-ed, National Review Online, January 2004

Rub Dub Dub, poem, Thorny Locust, Vol. 11 Fall 2003

The Fall of 1646, short story, Dark Moon Rising, October 2003

H is for Human, I for Insect, short story, Lullaby Hearse, September 2003

Cut from the Raines Cloth--No Change at the Times, op-ed, National Review Online, July 2003

Nyssa and the Time-Stopper of Clapham, short story, Wild Violet, May 2003

How Greta Dies, short story, Abyss & Apex, May-June 2003

How Does Your Garden Grow?, horror story, Black Petals Halloween 2002

Leaving Planet Britney poem, Can We Have Our Ball Back? No. 11

Across The Hudson, Gulf Coast Writers Association prize

Anti-Semitism, PC-Style World Net Daily

Kink-y Palecons? LewRockwell.com 10/23/01

Baby, It's Cold Outside, science fiction, Burning Sky Issue #10

Eight Arms To Hold You, horror story, House Of Pain

The C.B. Murders Literal Latte Vol. 7 No. 2

Stacey dies in Glendale in 2085poem, The Higginsville Reader Summer 2001

The Atari Generation BEEF: The Meat May 8, 2001

Joe Camel Noses On To The Summer Reading List Enter Stage Right May 2001

Jokes Aren't Funny BEEF: The Meat April 23, 2001

Winch Mistress New York Hangover November 2000

Charlotte's History Lesson, scary story, Slugfest Magazine 1998

We'd All Like To Think That Satire.org February 1998

Abduction, gritty gothic, Liquid Ohio Spring 2000

Toshi Gumball Will Rock From Where You Live!, urban legend-rock myth story, New York Hangover July 2000

"Passenger Pigeon, 1913" "California 1983" poems, Exit 13 magazine 2000

Grotesque Victorian gothic kink, The Santa Barbara Review Spring 1998

With Martha S. After The War, poem, Conservative Review, Nov-Dec 1996

Spin, dystopian science fiction, April 1999 Fantasque

Syringe, poem, New Delta Review Summer 2000

Original Sin, poem, Sepulchre Summer 1999

Egypt As It Approaches Zero, poem, American Literary, Winter 1998

Aster Bunny, short story, Starsong Sept. 1991

The Lady of the House, poem, The Lucid Stone Summer 1998

The Last Southern Girl, poem, The Listening Eye 1998

Gifts For Nobody, short story, Dodobobo No. 13

Returning to Lebenswelt, poem, Poet Lore Fall 1995

spidersex, poem, Frisson Spring 1998 Last Resident, short story, The Noctural Lyric #21

Young Lady Morris Bathes in 1758, poem, Nebo Fall 1993

Immaculate, poem, Mankato Poetry Review May 1996

exercises for cheekbone and ankle poem, Grasslands Review #6

Acropolis for One poem, Blood And Fire Review Spring 1998

Fade Away & Radiate (does anyone die in this picture?), Abilene Nursing Home #11, poems, Onionhead July 1991

Pawns, short story, The Iconoclast No. 54

Declare a Mistrial A review of "Don't Shoot The Messenger" by Bruce W. Sanford, SpinTechMag Nov. 1999

Nat Hentoff, The Last Honest Liberal Enter Stage Right April 1999

John Sweeney's Children: Labor Lost America's Future Foundation October 1996

Roasting The New York Times' Tim Weiner The American Partisan May 1999

Michele Mitchell's "A New Kind Of Party Animal" The American Enterprise Nov-Dec 1998