"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
            -Albert Einstein
                        Bio - More about M.E. Parker, recent publications and miscellaneous links to lit journals and writing resources.
                       Camera Obscura - Journal of Literature and Photography recently launched by Sfumato Press features short stories and photography in an annual print issue with web content updated regularly.
                      Occam's Razor - An unmarked intersection of literature with science where logic wrecks often occur.
Recent Stories by M.E. Parker
  • New story Forthcoming in  Alimentum
  • "The Harlot of Baltimore" - Summer 2009   MacGuffin
  • "Please Don't..." summer 2007  42opus  
  • "Truth in Violet" -  -Electric Velocipede 17/18
  • "The Summer of Ham" Spring 2006   Briar Cliff Review  - (Spring '06)
  • "Hawthorne" Spring 2009  -Peeks & Valleys (Ceased publication)
  • "Ghost Riders" - Fall 2008  The Flint Hills Review  - 
  • "Blue Charlie's and the Rings of Saturn - 2008  Quercus Review
  • "Going Nowhere" - Spring 2008  Straylight- (Spring '08)
  • "Schpeel" in  Mad Hatters' Review Number 9
  • "Colonel Bainbridge" - Summer 2006  Whistling Shade
  • "Marked Man" - Summer 2007  Barnstorm
  • New story Forthcoming in  Fried Chicken and Coffee
  • "Prayers to an Androgynous God" - Edifice WRECKED (ceased publication)
  • "Full Moon and Tiger Lilies" Summer 2006 Outercast (ceased publication)
M.E. Parker - Twitter @meparker1
"It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine."
            -Heraclitus, On the Universe