
ManArchy Magazine has published my story The Knife Block in the exciting and highly anticipated debut issue. Read here. Like the magazine here.
I also recommend: Misty by Richard Thomas, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Well, 5) by Amanda Gowin, Dispatch From a Lot Lizard: Car Buying 101 by Bob Pastorella, and the Total DANarchy column by Dan Donche.
Welcome to the new website.
—PV
2011 website fake cover art
2011 website fake cover art
2011 website fake cover art
My story ‘Bathhouse’ is included in the new anthology by ThunderDome.

Inspired by photographs taken around the Los Angeles area by Michael Paul Gonzalez, the book features short stories from 26 authors—each asked to select a photograph and write a story of precisely 1,000 words inspired by what they saw.
The result is quintessential LA. I’m thrilled to be part of it.
(available through ThunderDome and Amazon)
El Topo photos
El Topo photos
El Topo photos

In the wake of the Warmed and Bound release, the generous and elusive Mlaz Corbier interviewed a few very lucky people for Thunderdome, mine found here.

Literary podcast duo Livius Nedin and Robb Olson tackled a plethora of Warmed and Bound contributors in their series The Warmed and Bound Sessions. My interview is available for download and streaming here.
*Includes the original song by Mr Via, ‘Sandwich Girl’
Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology
Edited by Pela Via, Foreword by Steve Erickson
Velvet Press 2011, Available now in Paperback (408 pages), Kindle and Epub
“The writers of the Velvet are contemporary fiction’s most effective and least self-conscious aesthetic guerrillas … The result is fiction at once conceived from high artistic intent and executed with depraved populist energy.” —Steve Erickson, author of ZEROVILLE
From the heart of The Velvet—a writing community built around the fervent love of neo-noir fiction—comes an original anthology. Stacked with brilliant emerging writers alongside some of the strongest established voices in contemporary literature, WARMED AND BOUND crosses literary boundaries on all sides, to deliver an altogether unique reading experience.
Through seemingly opposed conventions, beautiful prose makes a hard impression on the short story form. From a scary love story to a nostalgic thriller, a hardboiled pursuit of salvation to the black humor that is existentialism, WARMED AND BOUND is rogue humility and lovesick noir, where humanity is a dirty puzzle.
It’s Velvet Noir. Welcome.