Bartleby Snopes
A Literary Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                 Nathaniel Tower


BIO: Nathaniel Tower is the founder and editor of Bartleby Snopes. His story "The Oaten Hands" was named one of 190 Notable Stories from 2009 by storySouth's Million Writers Award. He has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Below is a list of his recent publications. Due to the nature of online journals, some of the links below may no longer be active. His first novel A Reason To Kill was released in 2011, and his debut novella Hallways and Handguns is out now.


Debut Novel - A Reason to Kill
MuseItUp Publishing,  July 8, 2011

 


Published Short Fiction
(sorry for any dead links)


A Bowlful of Snails - Tales for the Toilet
Baby Steps - Foxing Quarterly Issue 1
Our Grave Yard - Carnage Conservatory Crimson Skull Contest Winner
Hair Garden - Lost in Thought Issue 3
Misty Me and Me - Jukepop Serials (September 2012)
Man on the Bridge - Nib Magazine (August 2012)
The Flaming Skull - The Pedestal Magazine (Pedestal 70, August 2012)
A Big One for Tobey - Misfits' Miscellany (August 2012)
The B's Knees - Fiction Brigade's Luscious: A Flash Fiction Collection of Sex and Relationships (August 2012)
2012 U.S. Marriage License Questionnaire - The Delinqunt Issue 18 (August 2012)
Two Birds in My Hands - Storm Cellar Vol. II No. 1 (July 2012)
You Won't Be There When It Ends - Apocrypha and Abstractions (August 2012)
I'll Kick Your Parent of the Year Award's Ass - Marco Polo Arts Mag (August 2012)
Garbage Disposals, Wedding Rings and Potato Kings - Drunk Monkeys (June 2012)
No Paranormal Romance for My Daughter - One Title (June 2012)
Steven Storky and the Case of the Lost Balls - Martian Lit (June 2012)
The Inlaw - Cowboy Poetry (June 2012)
Rock 'n' Roll Soul - Five 2 One Magazine (June 2012)
Looking for Clues - Mad Swirl (June 2012)
Suicide Prevention Survey - Spittoon Magazine 2.2 (June 2012)
It Doesn't Matter - Downer Magazine Issue 2
Living with a Giant Squid - Liquid Imagination #13
A Lengthy Interrogation Concerning a Murder I May Have Committed - Infective Ink (May 2012)
Trying to Escape - Visceral Uterus (May 2012)
Chuckles for Speed - Alfie Dog
Everything (But Death) Dies - Alfie Dog
Dr. Worthington's Lump - Drunk Monkeys (May 2012)
The Ugly Husband - Surreal Grotesque (Issue 1)
The Lifebuyer - A Baker's Dozen (Issue 2)
Kiling Mom - Martian Lit (April 2012)
The Birthmark - FilthySecretBooks Issue 2 (April 2012)
A Staple Diet - Resurgo Magazine (Issue 1)
I'm Allergic to My Mother - Piker Press (March 2012)
Riding My Balls to Glory - The Laughter Shack (April 2012)
Blade of Love - Bourbon Penn Issue 4 (April 2012)
Layers of Skin - Apollo's Lyre (April 2012)
My Biography - decomP magazinE (May 2012)
Three Flashes: The Run and Its Runner, An Imaginary Affair, and The Mommy Assaults - Connotation Press (March 2012)
The Boy Who Ate the Mountains - Prospective: a journal of Speculative Fiction (Werewolves and Other Bitches, March 2012)
The Homeless Schedule - The Smoking Poet (March 2012)
A Pledge to Stand - First Stop Fiction (March 2012)
Green Glow 84 - Nailpolish Stories (March 2012)
Stay Down Champion - Brawler Lit (March 2012)
Redeath (Again) - Orion Headless (February 2012)
Bags of Blood - MicroHorror (February 2012)
The Most Beautiful Toes - Marco Polo Arts Magazine (February 2012)
Skydivers and Pornographers - MuDJoB (February 2012)
Blue in the River - Happy Dog Mom Litjournal (Feb 2012)
Conrad's Bayonet - Drunk Monkeys (February 2012)
A Blade of Love - Drabblecast (233 - Feb 2012)
Looking for a Way Out - Crack the Spine (Issue 11 - Feb 2012)
A Stomach for All Seasons - Pure Slush (Feb 2012)
A Train to Somewhere - Train Write (January 2012)
Late Nights and Bloody Knuckles - Micro Horror (February 2012)
A Conversation between a Dead Man, Himself, and His Alarm Clock - apt (February 2012)
Grandpa's Wake and a Possum's Smile - SCUD Magazine (January 2012)
Two Hands Are Better Than Four - fwriction : review (January 2012)
A Leaky Head - Linguistic Erosion (January 2012)
First Bike Ride - Pure Slush (December 2011)
Praying for the Soul - Used Furniture (December 2011)
Building a Bridge - Pure Francis (November 2011)
Last Birthday Blast - InfectiveINk (December 2011)
Easy Mourning - Pure Slush (Slut Print Issue)
Broken Promise - Eunoia Review (November 2011)
The Last Words of a Genius - ZOUCH Magazine
Throwing the Life Away - Eunoia Review (November 2011)
Jesus Fritos - Pure Slush (November 2011)
A Happy Family - Drabblecast (220 - Trifecta XVIII)
The Arrival - The Planet Formerly Known as Earth
I Wrote a Book - Pure Slush (October 2011)
Funeral Arrangements - Golden Visions Magazine (Fall 2011)
As Easy as Black and White - Umbrella Factory (September 2011)
The Pain Scale - Best Served Cold: An Eye for an Eye Volume 1 (September 2011)
Intent to Kill - Powder Burn Flash (September 2011)
Two Cicadas - 50-Word Stories (September 2011)
The Soul Shoppe - Moon Milk Review (Summer 2011)
Quitting is Easy - (Short) Fiction Collective (August 2011)
Breasts and Pickups - Flash Fiction Offensive (August 2011)

Two Lefts Don't Make a Right - InfectiveINK (August 2011)
My Only Joke - Electric Windmill Press Issue 1
Mourning Through Fishnets - InfectiveINK (July 2011)
A Bad Day to Ride a Train - Subtle Fiction (July 2011)
Painted Mind – Short Humour (June 2011)
Cornfields and Fog Dances – The Other Room Journal (Summer 2011)
Montanawich – Toasted Cheese 11:2 (June 2011)
Zombie Road – House of Horror Magazine Issue 2 (May 2011)
Searching for the Right Name – Corner Club Press
Be Not Afraid – Pink Eye Lemonade (March 2011)
Layers of Skin – State of Imagination (April 2011)
Flowers for Our Dead Lovers – In Between Altered States (2011)
Pulled Apart by Horses – Short, Fast and Deadly (i66)
The Cancer Tree – Aurora Wolf Fairy Tale Anthology
The Outlaw Trilogy – Static Movement Serial Killers Anthology
A Boy Who Looks Like Horses – Johnny America (March 2011)
A Visit from the Moon – Caper Literary Journal (March 5th, 2011)
The Grand Unfurling – Untoward Magazine (Feb 2011)
Table for Twelve – Necrotic Tissue (Issue 13 – January 2011)
A Happy Family – Bourbon Penn (Jan 2011)
Wavering Faith – The Literary Burlesque (Jan 25, 2011)
No Luncheon for the Dead – Ear Hustler #2 (Dec 2010)
Everything But Death Dies – Mirror Magazine (August 2010) - Mortality
The Cruelest Man – The Foundling Review (December 2010)
The Day My Brother Made The Earth Stand Still – The Foundling Review Special Invitational Issue (Events)
The Great Nude Dude – Pig in a Poke (October 2010)
Dead Man Sleeping – Liquid Imagination (Issue 7)
9 Lives of a Cat – Short Humour (August 2010)
To Kill a Deer – Hobo Pancakes (August 1st, Issue 3)
An Unheeded Return – DivineDirtQuarterly (August 2010)
Suicide Draft – Spilling Ink (Sept 1st, 2010)
A Plan for a Bridge – The Momo Reader (August 2010)
A Tale of Two Writers – Leaning House Press (August 3rd, 2010)
A Lesson in Racism – hando no kuzushi (inaugural issue, Aug 2010)
Cleveland Cassidy's Dick – New Flesh Magazine (July 28th 2010) and YEAR ONE ebook
We Planted Corpses – negative suck (August 2010) - Featured on Fiction Daily on August 4th
The Suicide Lie - Bananafish (September 2010)
The Mole – Silly Mess (June 25th, 2010)
The Russian on the Train – Mirror Magazine (May 2010 - Sloth)
The Taming of Cerberus – CBH 100 Plus True Stories Anthology (Feb 2010)
The Fallen Oak – Writers’ Bloc (April 2010)
WWJRD – PicFic (Folded Word) – (Jan-February 2010 – serial on twitter and blog)
Quitting is Easy - Skive (Issue 13, December 09)
Love in the Bookstore – Southpaw Journal Issue 3 (November 09)
The Spider and the Corpse, or, The Corpse and the Spider – WEIRDYEAR (October31st, 2009)
Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Tree – Full of Crow (October 2009)
The Ladybug Murders - Shoots and Vines 4 (October 2009)
Nuclear Mouth – Writing Shift (October 2009)
Stories from the War – The View from Here (October 2009 online, November print)
There’s a Pube in my Coffee – Zygote in My Coffee (Sept 29th, 2009) issue 126
The Disappearance of I – Clockwise Cat (Issue 15, early fall)
Six Degrees at a Time – Pens on Fire (January 2010)
The Suicide Lottery – Delivered (September) print edition
Putting the Fun in Funeral – Shoots and Vines (Sept 2 09)
The Disappearing Artist – Shoots and Vines Long Print Mag (August 09, Into the Well)
The Arrival – This Zine Will Change Your Life (June/July 09)
Last Words of a Genius – Shoots and Vines (June 09)
Ugly – Shoots and Vines (June 09)

Crushed by the Sky – Fiction at Work (June 09)
The J - Three Cheers and a Tiger Contest Winner (April 09)
When the Spring Dies – The Library’s Best Volume 1 (April 09) print edition
The Body Dumper – Southpaw Literary Journal (April 09)
A Dick Move – The Right Eyed Deer (Issue 2, April 09)
Another Day at the Park –
Mud Luscious Issue 7 (April 09)
176 Days Until Today – Outcry Magazine (Volume 9, March 2009)
Cancer Research – Short Humour (March 09)
Killing Myself Slowly –Ranfurly (March 09)
The Oaten Hands – Toasted Cheese Journal 9:1 (Baker’s Pick) (March 2009)
The Rise and Fall of the Sewer People – Short Humour (Feb 2009)
Bradley Sands is a Dick – Bradley Sands is a Dick Anthology (Jan 09) Contest Winner
Overuse – Perspectives Magazine (Jan 09)
Promise of an Outlaw – Cantaraville (Jan 09)
Flirting With Immortality – Skive Magazine (December 08) Skive 10
Journey Across a Salty Sea in Search of a Flower - Perspectives Thanksgiving 08 Contest Winner
An Early Halloween – Pens on Fire (Nov 08 and Dec 08) – Winner of Halloween Contest
Hindsight of a Friend –Pens on Fire (Nov 08)
The Package – Bottom of the World (November 08) print edition
The Unplayed Piano – Bottom of the World (November 08) print edition

When the Spring Dies – Short Story Library (November 08)
The Fortune of an Accident – Long Story Short (November 08)
Waiting for His Wife – SHINE! (October 08)
One Cent Baby – Cynic Mag (August 08) Volume 10 Issue 8
The Day They Beheaded Me – Inscribed ~ A Magazine for Writers (Aug 08) Volume 3 Issue 4
Hindsight of a Friend –Darkest Before Dawn (July 08)
One Missed Call – Bartleby Snopes (July 08)
Snaggle – Bartleby Snopes (July 08)


Muse Christmas in July Hunt.