SALLY ROONEY’S NORMAL PEOPLE: A TECHNICAL BOOK REVIEW (originally published October 14, 2019) November 24, 2021November 24, 2021

PROFILES IN SHEER NERVE: A Heavily-Bowdlerized Journal Entry regarding the Summer of 2001 and Beyond November 19, 2021November 19, 2021

INCREDIBLY CAPABLE CRONE: a book review November 17, 2021November 17, 2021

FATHER VONNEGUT November 17, 2021November 17, 2021

OWNING IT: POSSESSION IS NINE-TENTHS of the JOY November 2, 2021November 5, 2021

COLORFUL SCENES ALONG THE DIRTY ROAD TO SOMEWHERE TRUTH-ISH –or—THE SECRETS OF MULATTONATION November 1, 2021November 12, 2021

POEM of the WEAK (a short story) October 25, 2021October 25, 2021

DON’T TELL CHLOE: a short story October 25, 2021October 25, 2021

WE CAN ONLY EMBELLISH: a radio-play script October 22, 2021October 22, 2021

LIVES of the POET October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

THE REAL JIMMY DAVIS (a short story) October 20, 2021October 20, 2021

EXCERPTS FROM “THE VELVETEEN GULAG” [a memoir]: CHAPTER 42:STOCKHOLM SYNDROME October 19, 2021October 19, 2021

EXCERPT FROM “THE VELVETEEN GULAG” [a memoir]: Chapter 10: THE CHAMPAGNE RABBIT October 17, 2021November 24, 2021

EXCERPT from KOOTCHIE TOWERS (a Novel in Progress) October 11, 2021October 11, 2021

GRAYSCALE October 8, 2021October 8, 2021

VERY RECENT COLLECTED SHORT STORIES of STEVEN AUGUSTINE: 2017-2020 [downloadable pdf] September 30, 2021September 30, 2021

THE GRADUATE (a short story from DIFFICULT TEXTS) September 29, 2021October 28, 2021

TEH TYME MASHEEN September 28, 2021September 28, 2021

THE GENDARMES OF MOROCCO: a Short Story September 28, 2021September 28, 2021

AZURA’S GIFT September 23, 2021September 23, 2021

THE MAN FROM ELEPHANT and CASTLE September 23, 2021September 24, 2021

LAKE ZURICH: a short story September 21, 2021September 21, 2021

THE EXCELLENT TASTE of OUR BENEFACTORS (a short story from NOT REALLY DIFFICULT TEXTS) September 16, 2021September 18, 2021

DR. RED: a short story September 15, 2021September 15, 2021

OEDIPUS Rx (a short story from NOT REALLY DIFFICULT TEXTS) August 31, 2021August 31, 2021

ERYN; EDWINA (a short story from DIFFICULT TEXTS) August 27, 2021August 27, 2021

THE ELEPHANT IN THE RABBIT HOLE and OTHER DITTIES August 20, 2021August 23, 2021

THE NUMBERS August 3, 2021August 4, 2021

NOTES FROM A SPOT EXTERNAL TO ANY PARTICULAR GODDAMN HIVE MIND July 27, 2021July 27, 2021

ED WARD OBIT July 17, 2021July 22, 2021

THE PRACTICAL POLITICAL WITCHCRAFT OF THE CONSCIOUS REFUSAL of NEOMANIA and NOSTALGIA: A GENTLE REBUTTAL of TWO ESTEEMED COMMENTATORS July 7, 2021July 7, 2021

REALITIVITY June 27, 2021June 28, 2021

BLOOMSDAY SLAVES June 16, 2021

EXCERPTS FROM “THE VELVETEEN GULAG” [a memoir]: CHAPTER 16: A BOHEMIAN BESTIARY May 23, 2021May 25, 2021

THANKLESS THOUGHTY THINKLETS: HOURS or MINUTES of FUN FUN FUN May 6, 2021July 1, 2021

CONVERSATIONS with a REMARKABLE MAN: a Short Story April 28, 2021April 28, 2021

WHEN WARTIME MAKES C*NTS of your HEROES April 26, 2021April 26, 2021

WRINKLES the VENGEFUL CLOWN and Other Epistles April 24, 2021November 15, 2021

SAME OLD TRAP, BRAND NEW LEGS TO GNAW OFF April 18, 2021April 19, 2021

THEY* STARTED A JOKE: RECENT LETTERS WITH ET April 17, 2021April 17, 2021

NONPOP/ RE: POP April 12, 2021April 13, 2021

OBSCENE IT ALL March 28, 2021March 30, 2021

CHOCOLATE AND BACON: A DANCE and a RANT (A REPRINT) March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

TOTALITARIUM March 15, 2021

EUTAUPEA March 7, 2021March 8, 2021

THE AWFULSOME TRUTH February 25, 2021February 25, 2021

TACTICAL PESSIMISM: TERMS for a POSSIBLE DISCUSSION February 24, 2021April 2, 2021

SUPERFICTION February 13, 2021February 14, 2021

DEPT. of OVERWROUGHT UNDERSTATEMENTS February 3, 2021

AMERICA: A ONE-ACT PLAGUE January 29, 2021January 29, 2021

INVOICE of a DEGENERATION January 16, 2021January 17, 2021

NOW MORE THAN EVER January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

SOME LIKES-LITE THOUGHTS ON HERESY December 31, 2020

NIGHT WATCHMEN of OBLIVION December 25, 2020December 27, 2020

KULTURAL KARE PACKAGE 4:THE XMAS RE-ISSUE December 22, 2020

KULTURAL KARE PACKAGE 3: THE XMAS RE-ISSUE December 22, 2020

WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING December 21, 2020January 7, 2021

KULTURAL KARE PACKAGE 2: THE XMAS RE-ISSUE December 21, 2020

KULTURAL KARE PACKAGE 1: THE XMAS RE-ISSUE December 20, 2020December 20, 2020

OUR THEME is WOUNDS December 18, 2020December 18, 2020

INVITATION to the CONTEMPLATION of our SHADOW-TWIN November 28, 2020

A BAD NOVEL WITHIN THE BAD NOVEL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR: A REVIEW and WARNING November 19, 2020November 21, 2020

SUNDRY COMBUSTIBLE ERUCTATIONS October 22, 2020October 24, 2020

PORTRAITS OF THE LEFTY-RIGHT and RIGHTY-RIGHT and WHATEVER’S LEFT: A REPRINT October 5, 2020

AN INFORMAL DEBATE on the DOMESTICATED AESTHETIC of the LITERARY MIDDLEBROW September 23, 2020September 23, 2020

THE MAGNIFICENT AGONY of the ARTIST TWO KILOMETERS UP the SHEER ROCK FACE of YOUR SERENE INDIFFERENCE September 21, 2020September 21, 2020

PARABLE September 11, 2020September 23, 2020

WE, the SMUPID September 8, 2020September 23, 2020

THE MOST TERRIFYING PREDATORS ARE ONLY VISIBLE IN HINDSIGHT September 4, 2020September 23, 2020

PET’S PROBS: A SHORT STORY September 2, 2020September 3, 2020

An Endless Collision of Myths August 23, 2020August 24, 2020

THE GLITTER PILL CHRONICLES August 5, 2020September 23, 2020

THE EMOTIONAL EQUIVALENT of FUCK-YOU-MONEY July 16, 2020July 16, 2020

NOTA BENE: RESPONSIBLE CT July 10, 2020July 14, 2020

MISSIVE 2 AMERIKA, #1 June 30, 2020June 30, 2020

careless marching of Time (updated) June 29, 2020July 1, 2020

IN THE NAME of WIFE & DAUGHTER & GRANDDAUGHTER (& a few billion others) June 18, 2020

BLOOMSDAY in the PLAGUE June 16, 2020June 16, 2020

about that time i was detained on suspicion of bank-robbing in minneapolis June 7, 2020June 9, 2020

RACE TRICK, VIRUS TRICK, SCIENCE TRICK: WHOOSH June 3, 2020July 13, 2021

Bojovat za novy zivot June 2, 2020August 2, 2021

TALE of the BLACKEST GIANT (a long short story) May 28, 2020July 4, 2020

Sarah Gold or Tempus Fuggit May 28, 2020May 29, 2020

INTRODUCING INA BOYD May 28, 2020May 28, 2020

ANOTHER COUNTRY SMELL (a short story from the collection EVEN MORE DIFFICULT TEXTS) May 28, 2020May 28, 2020

THE BIRTHMARK (a short story from DIFFICULT TEXTS) May 27, 2020May 28, 2020

THE ELEPHANT EYE MYSTERIES (an allegorical horror story) May 27, 2020May 28, 2020

THE STRANGE CASE of the CUDDLIEST REVOLUTIONARY (A TIMELY REPRINT): UPDATED May 19, 2020May 20, 2020

SMERSH, SPECTRE, KAOS, WHO May 17, 2020September 23, 2020

THE NIGHTINGALE: A MEDITATION May 10, 2020September 23, 2020

CHAPTER 20 from THIS INCREDIBLE SEX COMEDY: A NOVEL May 6, 2020May 6, 2020

CHAPTERS 5-7 from THIS INCREDIBLE SEX COMEDY May 3, 2020May 3, 2020

CHAPTERS 8-10 from THIS INCREDIBLE SEX COMEDY May 3, 2020May 10, 2020

CHAPTER 26 and (most of) CHAPTER 27 from THIS INCREDIBLE SEX COMEDY May 1, 2020September 20, 2020

STRONGER THAN… April 18, 2020April 18, 2020

THOUGHTS ON NOT-THINKING April 16, 2020April 16, 2020

THE BROTHERLAND MIRACLES (chapters 10 -15) April 12, 2020

RAVENELLA: a Fairytale by Steven Augustine April 1, 2020April 2, 2020

FLATTENING ALL CURVES ON THE IRONY BOARD or ALL HAIL THE NEW FEAR March 31, 2020September 23, 2020

QUARANZINE: THE APRIL LOOMS EDITION March 29, 2020September 23, 2020