How the Moon Works In How the Moon Works, globally underappreciated author Matt Rowan, strives for literary greatness and fails heroically. Cobalt Press
Matt Rowan
Matt Rowan lives in Los Angeles. He edits Untoward and is author of the collections, Big Venerable, Why God Why, and How the Moon Works (Cobalt Press, 2021). He's placed work in Cosmonauts Avenue, HAD, and others.
Los Angeles , CA, United States
Books
Selected work (18 publications)
Spots Spots were dotting things in a peculiar way, all of a sudden.
flash
A Party Already The idea of it wasn’t quick to be gotten rid of. I’d been invited to a party, again.
Suffice it to say, after some internal debate, I attended.
Short Story
Ladder Man “I can be creepy with just a ladder,” Ladder Man said to me on the other side of my second-story window.
flash
FrontiersmenSpace is a great time. It’s a lot of fun being an astronaut out in it. I especially enjoy the space tether that allows me to dangle out in the void of it all. I love having the job of retrieving space junk.
Fiction
micro-fiction
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