Today is October 15, 2025, and that means my new book of poems, SURVIVING IMMORTALITY AGAIN, has been released by Alien Buddha Press and is available for purchase in print paperback from Amazon and it's also now listed on Goodreads. This is exciting to me for many reasons, one of which is this is the …
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Surviving Immortality Again envisions a modern Prometheus destined for a dystopian future mired in an inescapable earthly present for eternity. In support of my first new book of poems to be published in many years, I've created and posted a video discussing Surviving Immortality Again and reading some selections from it. Shorter than 25 minutes, it …
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My mother, Nancy Elizabeth Page Lipscomb Holstad, died one year ago today on August 5, 2024 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her funeral took place on August 11, several days later. Despite being nearly a century old, it was a bit of a shock as she lived alone in her own condo, had been slowing down but …
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Bristol Noir Magazine: Scott C. Holstad's "Once, the Meek Died Young" I have a long new poem titled "Once, the Meek Died Young" up today in the March 10, 2025 issue of Bristol Noir: Curiously Dark Fiction. I think this may be the 5th piece of mine they've published in the past year and I'm …
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Bristol Noir Magazine: Scott C. Holstad's story The Final Episode? I have a new story titled "The Final Episode?" in the November 28, 2024 issue of Bristol Noir: Curiously Dark Fiction. It's very different from the other stories of mine Bristol Noir has published this year and, for me at least, ends on an upbeat …
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