Mark Budman's works have appeared or are about to appear in such magazines as Weird Tales, Mississippi Review, Virginia Quarterly, The London Magazine, Iowa Review, McSweeney's, Turnrow, Connecticut Review, WW Norton anthology "Flash Fiction Forward," and elsewhere.
So, you want to be an editor? Want to live the life of glory and power? How about reading some real-life email from would be contributors first?1. If I read your guidelines, I wouldn’t have time to write.2. F..k you, and your guidelines. If you don't love it now you'll love it later. So hope you don't read it because like people to live with regret.3. I thought you were a con man. Now I ...
An Open Letter to Men Who Don't Wash Their Hands in the Public BathroomBy Mark BudmanI know this is nothing compared to a roadside bomb, campus shootings or the health care fiasco, but why don't you stop for thirty lousy seconds to wet your hands with water? Perhaps you are hungry for some finger food? Perhaps you long to hold hands with your girlfriend? Or maybe you are giving out those leaflets ...