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My Web Publications
- Audio : The Sum of His Deeds - Stories That Lift
- Audio: Bug Lady - Cast Macabre
- Audio: Full Of Crow- Blog Talk Radio - Interviews Me - Fall 2010
- Audio: MJS Reads C'est Toujours La Meme Chose & Finally Over at FOC Poetry Hour, Blog Talk Radio
- Editor - MICROW 4
- Interview - Q&A With Green Maven Terri Bennett - Charlotte ViewPoint
- Interview - Richard Godwin Interviews me at Chin Wag at the Slaughterhouse
- Interview: Calliope Nerve Interview Series: Michael J. Solender
- Interview: Fictionaut Blog Interviews MJS Re: Food Lit
- MicroFlash - Dangling About - eBook - Pangur Ban Party
- MicroFlash - Discrete Transport - A-Minor
- MicroFlash : Your Horoscope - Right Hand Pointing
- MicroFlash: - Fantasy: Her Smile - Moon Drenched Fables
- MicroFlash: 25 Cents at a Time - Danse Macabre
- MicroFlash: A Chap Book: Six Months of His Life - Six Sentences
- MicroFlash: A Matter of Covenience - Danse Macabre
- MicroFlash: Advice to Burn - 55 a Day
- MicroFlash: Beard-Men - Litsnack
- MicroFlash: Broken Vase - Calliope Nerve
- MicroFlash: Cheese Days - In Between Altered States
- MicroFlash: Churn - Six Sentences
- Microflash: Contestant - Metazen
- MicroFlash: Currying Favor - Negative Suck
- MicroFlash: Dexter Pulls An All-Nighter At The Word Bakery - Less Than Three Anthology - Full Of Crow
- MicroFlash: Express Train Uptown - Gloom Cupboard Fiction #120
- MicroFlash: Farewell My Porcupine - Full of Crow
- MicroFlash: Going Postal - Fashion For Collapse
- MicroFlash: Group & Lost in the City - Full of Crow
- MicroFlash: He Don't Know Him - Calliope Nerve
- MicroFlash: His Last Tour - Microw Winter 2010
- MicroFlash: Latent Desire - Six Sentences
- MicroFlash: Lost Sister - Long Story Short
- MicroFlash: No Stopping It - 55 A Day
- MicroFlash: One Chunky Elvis - To Go & All The Way To The Top - Danse Macabre
- MicroFlash: Our Closet & Eternal Question - Full of Crow Summer 2009 Flash Fiction - MICROW - Peek Edition
- MicroFlash: Quiet Morning on the Square - Disenthralled #4
- MicroFlash: Stolen Want - Long Story Short
- MicroFlash: Temp Job - 55 A Day
- MicroFlash: The Lesson - The Legendary
- MicroFlash: Their Next - BULL Men's Fiction
- MicroFlash: Third Son - Six Sentences
- MicroFlash: Tourist - Gloom Cupboard #94
- MicroFlash: Tran Siberian - Dogzplot
- MicroFlash: Transformation - Six Sentences
- MicroFlash: Unknown to Me - Writers' Bloc
- MicroFlash: Walk - Danse Macabre
- MicroFlash; Dinner for Two - Blink-Ink
- Noir: 202 Red Gate - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: 675 Hennipen Avenue - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: A Lovely Shade of Blue - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: Accelerant - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: All In The Soil - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: Black Male - Thrillers, Killers N Chillers
- Noir: Blood Brothers - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: Cold Storage - The Flash Fiction Offensive
- Noir: Columbo Rerun - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: Crystal Ball - Powder Burn Flash
- Noir: Death of Privilege - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: Encore presentation - Running With the Iron Rooster - A Twist Of Noir
- Noir: Encore: The Patient Will See You Now - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: For Your Eyes Only - A Twist Of Noir
- Noir: Homegrown Tomatoes - Thrillers, Killers N Chillers
- Noir: Honor Among Thieves - Thrillers Killers "N" Chillers
- Noir: Icy Fist - Flash Fiction Offensive
- Noir: Jimmy Row - Disenthralled Issue 6
- Noir: Lucky? Oh Yeah, He's Lucky. - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: One More Good Hand - A Twist of Noir
- NOIR: Pewter Badge - Yellow Mama
- Noir: Respiratory Arrest - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: Running with the Iron Rooster - Flash Forty Anthology - EU/Smashwords Publishers
- Noir: Seventy-two Hours or Less - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: Silvery Wings - Thrillers Killers N Chillers
- Noir: The Bluffs at Torrey Pines - A Twist of Noir
- NOIR: The Illusionist - Pulp Metal Magazine
- Noir: The Patient Will See You Now - Powder Burn Flash
- Noir: The Right Moment - Thrillers Killers 'N' Chillers
- Noir: These Eyes - A Twist of Noir
- Noir: Toothache - Thrillers Killers 'N' Chillers
- Noir: Two Things I Did Not Know - Negative Suck, January Archive
- Non-Fiction - Guest Editor Issue Introduction - Danse Macabre
- Non-Fiction - Review - La Boheme Opera Carolina
- Non-Fiction Book Review: One Nation Under Blog - Pattinase - Fridays Forgotten Books
- Non-Fiction Essay - Creating Your Own Reality - On The Wing
- Non-Fiction Essay: Artist Profile: Claire Ritter - Charlotte Viewpoint
- Non-Fiction Essay: Cultural Crossroads - Charlotte's Shalom Park - Charlotte Viewpoint
- Non-Fiction Review: Shoots & Vines Print Zine, Into The Well - Full Of Crow - Zines
- Non-Fiction: Machine Theater - Charlotte ViewPoint
- Non-Fiction: Preview Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Comes to Charlotte
- Non-Fiction: Preview: Literary Arts Panel at Queens University - Charlotte ViewPoint
- Non-Fiction: Review - Village Idiot, Ross Vassilev - FOC Reviews
- NonFiction - Review - Machine Theater's ThomThom is a Wild Ride
- NonFiction -Reggae Central Jams For Charlotte - Charlotte ViewPoint
- NonFiction Preview- Charlotte Jewish Film Festival - Charlotte ViewPoint
- NonFiction Theater Review Mary Poppins CLT Blog
- NonFiction: Ca Depend Interview With Charlotte Film Festival Program Director, Jay Morong - Charlotte ViewPoint
- nonFiction: Dreamgirls Review - Charlotte ViewPoint
- NonFiction: Emmy Award Winning Producer Reflects On Reality TV - Charlotte ViewPoint
- NonFiction: Fahrenheit 451 Redux - Like the Dew
- NonFiction: From the Lunch Counter to the Tobacoo Warehouse - Like the Dew
- NonFiction: MJS Interview With Lily Tomlin - Charlotte ViewPoint
- NonFiction: new Normal - Heartland is Not in Kansas Anymore - Like The Dew
- Nonfiction: Sex Abuse Scandal - Pope: "The Devil Made Them Do It" - Like the Dew
- NonFiction: Sky Falling. Now What caveat Empto in Consuming New Media. Like the Dew
- NonFiction: South Carolina Likely To Lose Subversive Revenue - Like The Dew
- NonFiction: U.S. History? According to NC, It Doesn't Matter - Like the Dew
- NonFiction: When Muslim Garb Makes You Nervous - Like The Dew
- NonFiction: Y'all Get Fat Now, Hear? - Like The Dew
- Nonfiction; Preview: Harry Connick Jr. - Charlotte ViewPoint
- Paranormal: Cajun Queen - Flashes In The Dark
- Paranormal: Getting Ready - Full of Crow
- Paranormal: Orange Dot - Thrillers Killers N Chillers
- Paranormal: Special Place - Thrillers Killers N Chillers
- Poetry: A Relative Point of View (Pantoum) - Full of Crow Poetry October 2009
- Poetry: Bad Coffee - Metazen
- Poetry: Black Breeze - Gloom Cupboard #99
- Poetry: BlueLine Southbound - Right Hand Pointing
- Poetry: C'est Toujours La Meme Chose - Spoken War
- Poetry: Cicadas Cry & Maymount - Shoots & Vines
- Poetry: Cranbrook Lane - Danse Macabre
- Poetry: Don't Stop The Music & Grandpa - Shoots & Vines
- Poetry: Gears that Grind - Collaboration w/Lynn Alexander - Blue Print Review
- Poetry: Issue of Seat - Zygote in my Coffee
- Poetry: It's You Not Me - Calliope Nerve
- Poetry: Last Winter's Leaves & Granada - Shoots & Vines
- Poetry: Lazy Saturday - Shoots & Vines Print #4
- Poetry: Looks For Someone Else & Granada - The Legendary
- Poetry: North Woods & Futures Past - Outsider Writers Collective
- Poetry: Numerology - LITSNACK
- Poetry: Panic Attack - Calliope Nerve
- Poetry: That Day in Paris I Had to Work & Laughing Waters - Shoots & Vines
- Poetry: This Cloud I Know - Gloom Cupboard
- Poetry: Warming Cold - Calliope Nerve
- Poetry: Winter Solstice - Metazen
- Review: Eastern Standard Crime Review of My Story- Blood Brothers
- Video- Solender reads at TYPEFACE in Charlotte - Spring 2010
- Young Adult: The Sum of His Deeds - Stories That Lift
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- Michael Solender
- Charlotte, NC, United States
- “You’re not from here, are you?” Is a refrain I’ve often heard in various places in my life. A transplanted northerner (I’m from Minneapolis, MN) living south of the Mason Dixon Line for the past 15 years, I am not from here in many subtle and not so subtle ways. The belief that “..the nail that sticks out gets hammered down” challenges me to look closer and question more. Not being “from here” is mostly a good thing. I don’t need the familiar to be comfortable. I seek out different experiences and enjoy different points of view and opinions. I am a corporate refugee, having been one of "them" (you know, THEM of US vs. THEM.) for 20+ years. I gave it up to follow my passion - telling stories and connecting in a more personal way.
Places I Like to Hang Out
- A Twist Of Noir
- All The News That's Fit To Print
- Bloody Bridge Review
- Blue Print Review
- Brevity
- Bull Fiction For Thinking Men
- Calliope Nerve
- Charlotte ViewPoint
- Cherry Bleeds
- Danse Macabre
- Disenthralled
- Fashion For Collapse
- Fictionaut
- Full Of Crow
- Gloom Cupboard
- Hobo Camp Review
- IMDB
- In Between Altered States
- kill author
- Like the Dew
- LITSNACK
- Maybe It's Your Upper Lip
- Meck Deck
- Metazen
- Minimum Failure
- My Name is Mud
- Negative Suck
- Outsider Writers Collective
- Pangur Ban Party
- PANK
- Powder Burn Flash
- Pulp Metal Magazine
- Pure Slush
- Right Hand Pointing
- Shoots & Vines
- Six Sentences
- SpokenWar
- Stories That Lift
- The Legendary
- The Writers Alamanc
- Thrillers Killers "N" Chillers
- Writers' Bloc
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