M.C. Schmidt writes short stories and novels. He’s written some poetry too, but it’s all very bad and we needn’t talk about it.

Read these stories instead:

“Cube Ape” Moon City Review 2025

“The Things We Swallow” Mud Season Review

“Deer and Lemons” The Saturday Evening Post

“Cancer: A Love Story” Centaur

“Symbiosis” Artwife

“Tissue” HAD

“A Wildly Abbreviated History of Two Mouths” 42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42(2)

“Soft Rock as a Feather, Light as a Rap-Rock Board” Johnny America

“Little Miss Tobacco Spit” Pulp Lit Mag

“The Undersea Waltz” Scare You to Sleep

“The Legend, Uncle Jim” Floyd County Moonshine

“The Middle Distance” The Saturday Evening Post

“A Small Town Mystery, Solved” Mystery Magazine

“Madison and the Sea” Scare You to Sleep

“On She-Lizard Island, It’s Happy and Great” Mobius Blvd.

“Squirrel Husband” That’s Absurd! Word’s Faire

“The Random Arts Project” The Saturday Evening Post

“The Dream Girls” The Bombay Literary Magazine

“Amortal Riche” Symphonies of Imagination

“A Strange Realization in the Breakroom at Work” Maudlin House

“The Rabbit Died” Southern Humanities Review

“Her Room” Artwife

“Manna America” Coolest American Stories 2024

“The Children of Conscious Reunion” After Dinner Conversation

“1700 Likes” Rabbit Hole Anthology v.6

“Caravaggio and Me” Paper Dragon

“On Being Born Again” Mirrors Reflecting Shadows

“The Ohio Stigmata of 2009” Eclectica

“Chad and Stacy Forever” A Thin Slice of Anxiety

“The High Life” Prose Online

“The Perfect Sound of Walking” EVENT

“Lit Vegan Sex” X-R-A-Y

“Jamie’s Loss” Eunoia Review

“Cincinnati Snowstorm, 1962” Nonbinary Review

“Waiting on Randy to Pee” A Thin Slice of Anxiety

“The Loveland Frog” Defenestration

“Uncooperative Tortures” The Quarter(ly): Myths, Fables, and Folklore

“We Love You, Ringo” New Pop Lit

“Interactions With Technology at a Best Western In America” Mono.

The Decadents - Library Tales Publishing

“Hell is Empty and All the Devils are Here” The Needle Drops… Vol. 1 Urhi Publishing

“A Famous Woman” New World Writing

“Visitations” BULL: Men’s Fiction

“Funeral Pics” Every Day Fiction

“Together Around the Christmas Lights” Underwood Press - Rue Scribe

“Common Decency” Hive Avenue Literary Journal

“Pressed” Spectrum Literary Journal

“At Emily’s” Red Earth Review

“Congrats & Prayers” Abstract Magazine

“Gnats” Rumble Fish Quarterly

“Disappeared” Dime Show Review

“Sidewalk Chalk” Cleaning Up Glitter

“A Stone’s Throw” The Book Smuggler’s Den

“Honeymoon” Litro

“The Bears of Paradise” Every Day Fiction 

Murder is a Drag Indigo Sea Press

Blue Flame Second Wind Publishing

“The Little White Ones” Inklings

“Stuck” Say Goodnight to Illiteracy

“Baseball Saul” Boy’s Quest Magazine