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, will be published by Drollerie Press as an e-book in 2008 and as a chapbook in 2009. David’s published works include poetry in several publications, including Blue Light Red Light, Wormwood Review, and Paterson Literary Review; fiction slated for publication in Space & Time and two upcoming Drollerie Press anthologies; 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 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.

Note: reports of the release of Shadow of the Antlered Bird are a bit premature. However, you can view the flier for the book here, and you can sign up here to be notified when it becomes available.

Read David’s Work Online

Fiction

• Inheritance
  • Who will come to your funeral? Perhaps more importantly, who will wait outside?
• 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. Scene from an upcoming novella from Drollerie Press

Poetry

• Orpheus (What the Greeks Did Not Know)
  • We all know what failure cost him. But what would the price of success have been?
• 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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