Bosley Gravel's Hall of Vain


Bosley Gravel, eclectic hack writer, was born in the Midwest, and came of age
in Texas and southern New Mexico. He writes in a variety of genres. His fiction
focuses on the absurdly tragic, and the tragically absurd. He likes good
black coffee, nightmares, Billie Holiday, and that hour just before the sun
comes up.

Just remember this - all agents defect . . . and all resisters sell out. 
That's the sad truth, Bill. And a writer -- a writer lives the sad truth 
like anyone else.  The only difference is he files a report on it.

	--David Croneberg, Naked Lunch script


Short Fiction Credits:

The Hanged Man
Summary: While fishing on a crowded pier, a little boy named Franky draws
the The Hanged Man from the ocean. Will he learn more about the nature of man,
or the nature of beasts?

Published: The Deepening, Vol 1 #5
Available Rights: Under Contract

The Last Warrior
Summary: The Last Warrior is captured as he attempts to deliver the Begotten Seraph
from their savage enemies. Can his unwavering convictions save him from defeat?

Published: The Deepening , Vol 1 #6
Published: Anthology Builder
Available Rights: Reprint

Stafford's Hands: A Tiny Little Novel in Black and White
Summary: Stafford's hands were made for poetry, not all this.
Published: Show and Tell, Vol 1 #11
Published: The Deepening, Vol 1 #7
Published: Wanderings Magazine, Vol 4 #2
Published: Anthology Builder
Published: The Deepening World of Fiction , podcast
Available Rights: Reprint

Shree Selvanti and the Numinous Lake
Summary: Five brothers questing for a magical artifact share a night of adventure
with an unexpected guest while a dark prophesy haunts their leader.

Published: Bewildering Stories , Issue 211-212
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Ballad of the Melting Man
Summary: Like a candle, he burns . . .
Published: The Deepening, Vol 1 #8
Available Rights: Reprint
Nominated for the Million Writers Award.

Gaolbirds: A Tiny Little Novel in Black and White
Summary: How prison set two men free.
Published: The Deepening, Vol 1 #9
Available Rights: Reprint

November Gray (or the Fairy who ate a Toad)
Summary: Sedrick meets a fairy, does she share his taste for toads?
Published: The Deepening, Vol 1 #11
Published: AnthologyBuilder
Available Rights: Reprint

Earned Apples
Summary: Wess may be wise beyond his years, but does the Apple Lady know it?
Published: The Deepening
Published: Shalla Magazine, Winter Bloom 2008
Published: AnthologyBuilder
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Twice Buried, Once Shy
Summary: Murder, murder most foul.
Published: The Deepening, Vol 2 #14
Published: Redux, Macabre Cadaver, Issue #5
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Rum Dum: A Tiny Little Novel in Black and White
Summary: A priest struggles with the future, the present and the past, in an attempt to
discover what truly defines him.

Published: The Deepening, Vol 2 #16
Available Rights: Reprint

In the Shadow of the Red Rock
Summary: An afternoon in the desert.
Published: The Deepening, Vol 2 #18
Available Rights: Reprint

The Bone Tree
Summary: Mother told me that when Great Grandpa died they had no doctor or undertaker . . .
Published: Insolent Rudder, Summer 2007
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

The Scarecrow Rebellion
Summary: A short horror sketch on the nature of rebellion.
Published: Bewildering Stories, Issue 267, chosen for the Fourth Quarter Review
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

With Mars in his Hand
Summary: Can a witch on Mars truly raise the dead?
Published: Forbidden Speculations, Anthology
Published Dunesteef Audio Magazine, Page 78, Vol 3
Available Rights: Reprint

Little Snapshots
Summary: A world of introversion papered with his little snapshots.
Published: Thirteen Human Souls
Archived: Well Told Tales
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Dragon's Food
Summary: Noah has an ark with a very hungry dragon in it.
Published: Reflections Edge, Issue 34, 2008
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Queen of the Damned
Summary: Lestat, eat your heart out. :)
Published: My Strange Stories
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Jocko Homo
Summary: God made man, but he used the monkey to do it . . .
Published: Bewildering Stories, Issue 293
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Particular Tastes
Summary: Love, sex and death, just not in that order.
Published: Well Told Tales, Issue 40
Available Rights (Audio only): Creative Commons, Under Contract

Still Reflections
Summary: A sketch of what might dwell in the Hall of Mirrors.
Published: MicroHorror
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Independence Day
Summary: A mail order Russian bride finds independence.
Published: Patchwork Project
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

An Honest Attempt
Summary: Lyle describes an attempt to speak to his girlfriend's father about marriage.
Published:The Fabulist Vol. 3, No. 1
Available Rights: Reprint

Under a Blue Jungle Moon
Summary: Their love eternal.
Published:Tales from the Moonlit Path, Issue 12
Available Rights: Reprint

Hunger: A Prayer
Summary: Will her prayers be answered? And by what?
Published:Cerulean Rain, Issue 3
Available Rights: Reprint

Something Old
Summary: Tina is going to married; she is looking for something old (and finds it).
Published: MicroHorror
Available Rights: Reprint

Vicissitude
Summary: A season of change.
Published: Every Day Fiction
Available Rights: Under Contract

The Miracle of the Whitewashed Christ
Summary: Talent and faith are sometimes not enough.
Published: Perpetual Magazine
Available Rights: Reprint

A Gift
Summary: A dialog retelling of Cleopatra's death.
Published: Every Day Fiction
Available Rights: Under Contract

Binding the Eater
Summary: Love, ropes and a haircut.
Published: Moon Drenched Fables
Available Rights: Reprint

A Moment (on the Gallows)
Summary: Sixty seconds on the gallows.
Published: Every Day Fiction
Available Rights: Under Contract

Novel, Novella & Novelette Credits:

Love of the Dead
Summary: A midnight seduction brings desire and with the desire comes a dark life
change for Joseph. Love of the Dead is a wink and a nod to the pulp vampire genre.

Published: The Deepening, Vol 1 #10-11
Published: AnthologyBuilder
Available Rights: Reprint

Anima Venti
Summary: Seward Stacy and his wife Brandi Wyne seek a new life on a mountaintop
fate frowns upon them, forcing Seward to take things into his own hands with horrifying results.

Excerpt: Shadowfire Press
Audio Excerpt:
Available Rights: Consumer (purchase)



Other Credits:

Old Tom Cat
Summary: A stray cat wanders the city.
Published: Wanderings, Vol 2, #6
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Summer Ice
Summary: A poet says goodbye to his mentor.
Published: Wanderings, Vol 2, #7
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Stained by Cain
Summary: A prose poem charting a hidden form of life.
Published: Bewildering Stories, Issue 242,?
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Her Name is Rio
Summary: Rio Grande, NM, Llarona Park
Published: Literal Translation, Vol 10, June 2008
Available Rights: Creative Commons*

Manly Food
Summary: Recipes
Published: The Art of Manliness
Available Rights: Unknown

Pending Publication:

Recrudescence (podcast), The Courtship of Lady Boo-Boo, The Hanged Man (reprint), Cannibal Lesbian Zombies from Outer-Space --verses-- Doctor Clockwork and his Furious Plastic Surgeons of Doom: The Movie (novel), Paid in Full, Skin Deep

Peer groups:

Z7, since 6/2006
Ripcot, since 2008
The Vicious Cicle, since 2008

Notable Work in Progress:

Bound
A speculative romance noir, a study of love, fear, and loneliness.(~90k)

Summary: A man's search for love carries him across the boundaries of his own spirit.
Published: Second draft in progress.
Available Rights: All

Americana: The Last Gleaming (~30k)
A slipstream detective story.

Summary: Schizophrenic detective, Drake Carson, hunts the Misfit, who he believes to be evil incarnate.
Published: Seeking publisher or agent
Available Rights: All

Servants of the Mud (~50k)
Dark mythic fantasy

Summary: A cursed djinn seeks revenge on the descendant of the man who wronged her 1500 years ago
Pauly a layabout and indifferent ex-street kid must deal with her wrath.

Published: First draft done. Resting.
Available Rights: All

American Woman (~80k)
The dark side of life in the suburbia.

Summary: Hollywood Tommy reconciles with his wife; re-explores suburban life looking for cheap thrills and danger.
Published: Drafting.
Available Rights: All

The Rejected/Homeless

In the Rough: Jack Billiard is having a very bad day; the beautiful
Babs Johnson won't give his boss, Mr. L, his diamonds back, and
Mr. L wants them . . . real bad. A parody of pulp/hardboiled crime fiction.


Venus de Milo: Good times and bad, true love is immutable. Literary.

Waiting to Succeed: Gen Xers, Adam and Jess discuss their
measurement of success. Literary.



Contact, News and announcements:
Obfuscated Email: bosley dot gravel at gmail dot com
Blog: Rude Influences
Twitter: bosley_gravel
Facebook: Bosley Gravel
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