Welcome to davidwriting.com, the Web page of David Sklar, author of poetry, satire, and urban fantasy.

David Sklar’s first novella, Shadow of the Antlered Bird, was published by Drollerie Press as an e-book in October of 2008 and will be available in print in 2009. David’s published works include poetry in several publications, including Blue Light Red Light, Wormwood Review, and Paterson Literary Review; fiction in Space & Time and Membra Disjecta; and satire in The Cynic, The Wittenburg Door, and The FarceHaven Tribune. He has also written for Galileo Games, The Gaming Report, and Knights of the Dinner Table. 

David earned a BS in English from Northern Michigan University and has studied writing at The Naropa Institute and folklore at Indiana University Bloomington. He currently works as a freelance writer and editor and lives in Carlstadt, New Jersey with his wife, their 2-year old son, and a retired housecat from Cleveland, who envies the child his talent for chaos but fears his propensity to inflict it on her.

David is currently working on The Skin We Wear, a cynical romance about shapeshifters and anti-fur activists, and planning to complete a sequel to Antlered Bird. His biggest work in progress, at present, is a second child, due in late December or early January.

Shadow of the Antlered Bird is available as an e-book from Fictionwise and Mobipocket and direct from Drollerie Press.  You can view the flier for the book here.

Read the review by Liviu Suciu of Fantasy Book Critic Blogspot.

Read David’s Work Online

Fiction

• Inheritance
  • Who will come to your funeral? Perhaps more importantly, who will wait outside?
• Wind in the Reeds
  • They say he was there when the gods made the world–and he would have offered to help, except. . .
• Excerpt from Shadow of the Antlered Bird
  • In the woods, in the dark of night, you can find help, and you can find danger…and sometimes you don’t know quite what you find.

Poetry

• Earth Day
  • From Aria Kalsan Anthology: Mysteries of the Future. Worlds-weary traveler Kaia MareImbrium finds solace when very far from home.
    
• Subterranean Song
  • Sometimes a one-night stand carries obligations that last beyond death…
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Satire

• Zen Fundamentalist Kills Parents on Road
  • Published in The Cynic. A different version appeared previously in The Wittenburg Door under the title “The Fundamentalists Next Door.”
• Closed-Minded People Protest Their Portrayal in Harry Potter Books
  • The real reason Harry Potter has so many people upset. Originally published in And How!
• Gay Marriages Threaten…Um…Something, Probably
  • I’ve never heard a sensible argument against same-sex marriage…here are a few of the senseless ones. (PDF opens in new window.) Originally published in The Wittenburg Door.
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