COMPLETE PUBLISHED WORKS OF TIMOTHY GAGER
BOOKS
ANTHOLOGIES
Best Of Timothy Gager, Edited by Robin Stratton,, February, 2023, Big Table Publishing
BOOKS OF FICTION
Joe The Salamander,, July, 2022, Golden Antelope Press. (Audio Book, Jan. 2024)
Every Day There is Something About Elephants,, March 2018, Big Table Publishing
Grand Slams: a coming of eggs story,, November 2016, Big Table Publishing. (Audio Book, May 2024)
The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan,, August 2014, Big Table Publishing
Treating A Sick Animal: Flash and Micro Fictions,, November 2009, Cervena Barva Press
Short Street, April 2004, Zumaya Publications
Twenty-Six Pack, January 2001, Dead End Street Publications
The Damned Middle: Life in a Drunken Slumber, February 2000, Dead End Street Publications
BOOKS OF POETRY
Almost Bluing for X-tra Whitening, September, 2024, Big Table Publishing
2020 Poems, January, 2021, Big Table Publishing
Spreading Like Wild Flowers, October, 2019, Big Table Publishing
Chief Jay Strongbow is Real, July 2017, Big Table Publishing
The Shutting Door, September 2013, Ibbetson Street Press
Anti-Social Network, May 2013, Red Neck Press
These Poems are not Pink Clouds, December 2008, Propaganda Press
This is Where you go when you are Gone, March 2008, Cervena Barva Press
We Needed A Night Out, November 2005, Cyberwit Publications
The same corner of the Bar, July 2003, Ibbetson Street Press
SHORT, FLASH, AND MICRO FICTION
"On To The Next Thing", January 31, 2025 10-by-10, Issue #24
"Mom and Pops", December 24, 2024 Oddball Magazine
"Fairytale of Dysfunction", November 25, 2023 Alien Buddha #57
"Wedding Guest"
"Labor Day at the Border Café ", October 12, 2023 10 BY 10, Issue 12
"Dig 'Em", June 6, 2023 10 BY 10, One Year Anniversary Issue
"Arpeggio", March 15, 2023 Molecule Vol. 8
"The Tinkerer", January 1, 2023 Blue Lake Review
"Her Hotel", August 19, 2022 Fried Chicken and Coffee
"Hey, Benni", June 30, 2022 Tell Tale Inklings #6
"Beloved Do Us Part", June 3, 2022 10 BY 10
"The Resigned Life of a Condo Trustee", August 1, 2021 Paper Teller Diorama Anthology
(Great Weather for Media Books)
"Disremembering", June 25, 2021 Punk Noir
"How You Met Your Husband"
"Poke"
"The New Coach"
, October 26, 2020 Boog City, #137, Baseball Issue
"It's a New Year"
, September 1, 2020 Right Hand Pointing, #140, scroll to the bottom
'"Ambien Beatle" January 29, 2020 Oddball Magazine
"The Four Kings of Harmony" November 1, 2019 Better Than Starbucks
"The Four Kings of Harmony" November 1, 2019 Better Than Starbucks (print edition)
"Inside the Mind of Brad's Therapist" July 31, 2019 The Very Best of Big Table Publishing Volume 2
"Jack" July 31, 2019 The Very Best of Big Table Publishing Volume 2
"Happy Birthday from Grand Slams" July 31, 2019 The Very Best of Big Table Publishing Volume 1
"Beautiful Prayers" May 1, 2019 Freshwater Literary Journal
"After the Afterlife", November 24, 2018 Flash Boulevard
"A Modern Form of Disorderly Conduct"
"Touching All the Bases"
'"What Kids Are Scared Of" August 16, 2018 Crack The Spine Print Anthology XVII
"Every Day There Is Something About Elephants", April 7, 2018 Flash Boulevard
"Continuum"
"Simplicity is Beautiful"
'"Historic Men Talking By a Fire" March 7, 2018 Oddball Magazine
'"Death Pool" March 1, 2018 Ink In Thirds
'"What Kids Are Scared Of" January 17, 2018 Crack The Spine
"Joe the Salamander" May 31. 2017 The Coil
"When She Missed the Ice"
December 21, 2016 Oddball Magazine
"They"
November 19, 2016 Flash Frontier
"Who's the Boss?
July 4, 2016 63 Channels Magazine
"The Road Starts: 896, Newark, Delaware"
April 30, 2016 Fried Chicken and Coffee
"How She Traded Up on Damnation", August 28, 2015 Tell Tale Inklings I
"How He Was Left"
"After the Afterlife"
June 27, 2015 Right Hand Pointing, #188
"The Prominent Father"
February 25, 2015 Oddball Magazine
"Touching All The Bases"
February 3, 2015 Breakwater Review
"You Buy Too Much Kale"
September 16, 2014 Flash Frontier
"Being Aesthetically Pleasing"
July 8, 2014 Cape Fear Review
(written with Teisha Twomey)
"Iron Mike Behind Bars"
June 9, 2014 Cape Fear Review
"Best Fiends", May 28, 2014 Fried Chicken and Coffee
"Pole"
"The Beauty on the Inside"
"No.Station"
May 28, 2014 Akashic Books Thursdaze
"All About Zebras in The Wild", May 9, 2014 The Legendary
"What Are The Reasons They Hang On"
"Systematic Knowledge"
March 29, 2014 Pure Slush
"Clarence's First"
March 7, 2014 Paragraph Line
(written with Teisha Twomey)
"A Modern Form of Disorderly Conduct" December 28, 2013 Right Hand Pointing
"How It Worked for Them" December 1, 2013 In Between Altered States
"Tours of Duty" October 15, 2013 Midway Journal
"How Penguins Break" October 13, 2013 Uno Kudo 3
"NFL Preview, New England Patriots" September 6, 2013 American Short Fiction
"Where (in the) House", July 22, 2013 Santa Fe Literary Review, Print
"Sissy Spacek", July 12, 2013 Bartleby and Snopes, Issue 10, Print
"Joe the Salamander" June 24, 2013 Go Read Your Lunch
"Sissy Spacek" April 9, 2013 Bartleby Snopes
"After Receiving a Picture of Dick Butkus
via Text Message" March 14, 2013 Metazen
(written with Teisha Twomey)
"Twin Gets Just Desserts", March 4, 2013 In Between Altered States #33
"Leftovers at the Lays Factory", March 3, 2013 Wigleaf
"Dear Wigleaf"
"Where Do You Bury The Survivors", February 28, 2013 The Legendary
"Full Moon"
"About Shooting"
"Their Own Planet", January 30, 2013 Men in the Company of Women Anthology, Print
"The Transference of Todd and Lucy"
"Happy Holidays", January 11, 2013 Exquisite Quartet, 2012 Print Anthology
(written with Meg Tuite, Dena Rash Guzman and Robin Stratton)
"Happy Holidays", December 17, 2012 Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet at Used Furniture
(written with Meg Tuite, Dena Rash Guzman and Robin Stratton)
"The Lottery Winner"
, December 1, 2012 Right Hand Pointing #58
"Sometimes There Are Things Which Come Out of the Darkness"
, November 14, 2012 Oddball Magazine
"Some Things You Might Not Have Realized"
, October 27, 2012 Unshod Quills
"No Sex Since Last Spring"
, September 1, 2012 In Between Altered States, #28
"Mental Notes From Catechism"
, July 30, 2012 Matchbook
"Girl With A Gun"
, July 15, 2012 Connotation Press audio "Girl With a Gun" included
"What You Dream About"
"Continuum"
"Hello Iceman"
, July 2, 2012 Paragraph Line
"This Tornado Loves You"
, June 25, 2012 JMWW, Summer, 2012
"Loveville"
, June 19, 2012 Fried Chicken and Coffee
"How Do You Love A Capitalist?"
, June 8, 2012 Paragraph Line
"Their Own Planet"
, April 9, 2012 Paragraph Line
"Chiller"
, April 2, 2012 In Between Altered States #23
"Coffee Maker"
, March 20, 2012 trnsfr magazine V
"Six Facts about Influencing Baseball in Heaven"
, February 2, 2012 Final Fenway Fiction:
More Stories from Red Sox Nation
"If We Don't Think, We Will Sleep"
, February 1, 2012 Microw 6
"A Circus Story"
, January 1, 2012 Right Hand Pointing
"Aspirations"
, December 14, 2011 Unshod Quills
"Action Figures"
"Becoming a Couple"
, December 9, 2011 Metazen
"Things About Callie"
, December 1, 2011 Blue Lake Review
"I Don't Know Who You Are"
, November 28, 2011 In Between Altered States
"Home Invasion"
, November 14, 2011 Fried Chicken and Coffee
"Fireworks"
, November 14, 2011 Squawk Back #31
"Multiplicity"
, November 2, 2011 Midway Journal
"Shooting Them Out"
, November 2, 2011 U.M.Ph.!
"Last Call"
, June 30, 2011 Curbside Splendor
"Channeling"
, May 13, 2011 Red Fez
"Bipolar"
"A Little Slice Of"
, April 25, 2011 not from here, are you?
"A New Life"
, March 31, 2011 Thunderclap V link to purchase or view free download
"What's in the Clouds"
"Some Sort of Anonymous Meeting" (written with Elizabeth Rawlins)
"Every Day There Is So Much about Elephants"
, March 28, 2011 Smokelong Quarterly 31
"Bonfire"
, March 22, 2011 Prick of the Spindle
"The Recital"
, March 20, 2011 The Legendary
"Devided"
"Not the Stuff of Fairy Tales"
, March 12, 2011 RE: Telling (print anthology, click link to purchase)
"The Things We Have"
, March 1, 2011 In Between Altered States
"They Covered all the Rust Spots with Bumper Stickers"
, February 19, 2011 1 AM Project Zine
-(safe download)
"The Soul Must Go On"
, February 15, 2011 Metazen
"Entertaining Just An Option"
, February 7, 2011 Monkeybicycle
"How to Give Dating Advice as a State Social Worker"
, January 14, 2011 JMWW V
"The Old Place"
, December 31. 2010 Fried Chicken and Coffee
"Every Day There Is So Much about Elephants"
, December 27, 2010 Smokelong Weekly
"Closure"
, December 23, 2010 In Between Altered States
"Bipolar"
, November 30, 2010 MiCrow
"Where Did You Come From?"
, November 15, 2010 Night Train
"We Measure All This Distance in Longing"
, October 13, 2010 The Blue Lake Review
"A Dedicated Customer"
"About a Million Punches"
, October 9, 2010 Waterhouse Review
"After She Left a Note"
, September 1, 2010 Negative Suck (view September 2010 archive)
"You Deserve Somebody"
, September 1, 2010 U.M.ph.!
"You Have To Splice It Together"
, June 27, 2010 In Between Altered States
"How It Went Down", April 28, 2010, Six Sentences, Volume 3
"Arms up to the Sky"
, April 24, 2010 The Criterion
"Eight Years Later, Charlie Goes to Omaha"
, April 22, 2010 Metazen
"I Look at You Through Glass and Water"
, April 4, 2010 Litsnack
"Bigger Than Charles Atlas" (written with Elizabeth Rawlins)
, March 30, 2010 Metazen
"How to Give Dating Advice as a State Social Worker"
, March 15, 2010 JMWW
"Tenth Frame Spare"
, March 3, 2010 Fried Chicken and Coffee
"Somewhere on the Edge"
, February 24, 2010 Shalla Magazine
"Joe the Salamander"
, February 21, 2010 Air in the Paragraph Line #13
"Channeling"
, January 31, 2010 Big Toe Review
"Grubs"
"Brophy is in the Air"
, December 28, 2009 Wilderness House Literary Review
"A Little Slice Of"
, November 9, 2009 Night Train
"Somewhere on the Edge"
, November 7, 2009 Suss: Another Literary Journal
"Coney Island is Dead", Oct. 17, 2009, Dogplotz 2009 Print Anthology
"You, Heaven"
, October 17, 2009 Hippo Pants
"Feed Your Head", October 8, 2009, Askew Review 14
"Zig Zag"
, October 7, 2009 Six Sentences
"They Did Not Want to Know"
, September 16, 2009 Dogzplot
"Wine and Cheese with Alexi and Natasha"
, September 14, 2009 Fried Chicken and Coffee
"Pretty Flamingo"
, August 31, 2009 Monkeybicycle
"Diary of an Angry Psychologist: Wednesday’s Appointments"
, August 20, 2009 The Legendary
"Time Away"
, July 20, 2009 The Legendary
"The Note"
, June 16, 2009 U.M.ph.!
"What's an Atheist Doing Behind the Wheel"
, June 1, 2009 Trailer Park Quarterly
"Interoffice Relations"
, May 26, 2009 Tuesday Shorts
"FuTuRe Tube"
, May 18, 2009 Thieves Jargon
"You Did Not Hear the Ping", May 3, 2009, Skive 11
"At His House", April 8, 2009, Six Sentences, Volume 2
"How Do You Fix It?"
, February 1, 2009 971 Menu
"Coney Island is Dead"
, January 31, 2009 Dogzplot
"All because they had enough children"
, January 12, 2009 Thieves Jargon
"He is all mine"
, January 11, 2009 The Legendary
"The Short Marriage of a Bride and Groom"
, January 3, 2009 The Scapegoat Review
"Someone will come upon a Savior"
, January 1, 2009 Not Just Air, Issue 8, Pregnant
"Jealousy"
"Your Vasectomy Journal", November 24, 2008, Twelve Stories
"Brophy is in the Air", November 3, 2008, Slurve
"The Flounderer", October 23, 2008, Poor Mojo's Almanac
"It's more than Flesh Burning", September 7, 2008, Gloom Cupboard #55
"Paying For It", September, 2008, Mourning Silence, The First Issue
"Coach", August 25, 2008, Thieves Jargon
"The Cheeseburger and The Cherry Jubilee Flambe", July 16, 2008, Slurve, The Green Issue
"The White Bike", May 13, 2008, Askew Review 13
"Hidden Hoboken", April 7, 2008, Long Short Story
"Cheers to Sylvia Plath", March 11, 2008, Tuesday Shorts
"This Really was Love", February 29, 2008, The Smoking Poet, Spring 2008
"The things you do Remember", February 6, 2008, Zygote In My Coffee, Issue 101
"The Chicken Factor", February 1, 2008, New Graffiti
"Santa Has Needs", January, 2008, Santi: The Lives of Modern Saints Anthology
"How to Care for a Sick Animal", January 8, 2008, Big Toe Review
"Vex", December 15, 2007, Litsnack
"Daddy", November 26, 2007, Thieves Jargon
"Searching for My Bukowski", November 14, 2007, Penguin
"In and Out", November 1, 2007, right hand pointing
"Joeseph", September 11, 2007, VerbSap
"Through the Trees", Summer 2007, Letter X Magazine, Vol. 9
"Just Dessert", July 26, 2007, Silent Actor, Issue 1 (Print and on-line)
"Fantasy Camp", July 25, 2007, Further Fenway Fiction: More Stories from Red Sox Nation
"Canvas", June 20, 2007, Zygote In My Coffee, Issue 90
"Why Couples Have Pets", June 19, 2007, Tuesday Shorts
"Mother and Daughter", April 19, 2007, Poor Mojo's Almanac
"Overnight Shift", April 13, 2007, 55 Word
"The Best Interest of the Child", April 6, 2007, Thieves Jargon
"The Ferry Boat to God", April 6, 2007, Slurve Magazine
"A Tavern, 6 PM", March 15, 2007, March, 15, 2007, Word Riot
"The Top of Grace's Upper Lip", February 19, 2007, Zygote In My Coffee, Issue 80
"Bullyhood", December 20, 2006 To Be Read Aloud
"Eggs", November 4, 2006, Story Garden 7
"Punchless Jimmy Collins", October 27, 2006, Thieves Jargon
"Flying to Los Angeles", April, 2006, Fish Drink Like Us Anthology
"The Seven Minute Date", Summer, 2005, Air in the Paragraph Line #10
"A Fired Bartender's Last Call", April 29, 2005, Swank Writing
"Dances", April 2005, VerbSap
"Inches", April 2005, Insights: A Collection of Contemporary Short Stories
"Shoreline", February 2005, Write-This Magazine
"And Now For Something Completely Different", June 25, 2004, Thieves Jargon
"Flying to Los Angeles", December 25, 2003, Write-This Magazine
"Sofa for Jesus", December 2003, Out of the Blue Writers Unite Anthology
"A Wing, A Prayer, and A Tall Man", June 2003, Word Riot
"Boxing With Ernest", March 2003, Scene Boston Magazine
"Between North and South", Midnight Mind Magazine
"Use of a Parry", November 1999, Fiction on the Web
POETRY
NON-FICTION/ESSAYS
October 1, 2021, The Epiphanies Project: Twenty Personal Revelations
"Going From Important To
What Was Really Important"
June 2, 2020, WorkIt Health
"Being Of Service in the Age of Corona"
September 8, 2016, The Fix
"How 12 Steps Worked to Produce a Vegan"
November 10, 2015, The Sobriety Collective
"Timothy Gager's Story"
November 17, 2014, Big Table Publishing, Featured Authors
"My Analysis of Television and How It Influenced, "The Thursday Appointments of Bill Sloan"
September 22, 2014, Mass Poetry Website
"Going Wherever Time and Writing Takes Me"
September 18, 2013, The Somerville Times: Lyrical Somerville
"A Seven Year Old Takes a Drink"
February 9, 2011, The Somerville News: Lyrical Somerville
"Dire Series Memories"
January 31, 2011, Drinking Diaries
"My Personal Catelog of Dating Drinkers and Non-Drinkers"
June 9, 2010, Screw Iowa
"The Truth in Fiction and why you always hurt the ones you love
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February 4, 2010, Food Shenanigans!
"Wait, who's in the Super Bowl again?"
NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLES and EDITING WORK
2016-present, Wilderness House Literary Review
Fiction Editor
2014-present, Newton Writers and Poets Center
Board of Directors
2014-present The Dead Market Writings
Editor. Writers repost published on-line work from now dead links
2012-2014 Show Me Your Grits
Editor where writers show their grittiest work
2012-2013, 1998-1999 New Graffiti Magazine
co-editor with Renee Angers
2011-2013, Printer's Devil Review
Editorial Consultant
2008-2010, Wilderness House Literary Review
Fiction Editor
May-August 2009, Story Garden 8: The Best of Scrawl
Editorial Staff
2004-2006, Heat City Literary Review
founding co-editor with Maria McCarthy
March 13, 2012, The Somerville News
"Somerville Writers and Writers Festival Alumni are in force at AWP"
November 8, 2006, The Somerville News
Interview with Lisa Carver
January 19, 2005, The Somerville News
In Appreciation: An Obituary for author Larry Brown
October 20, 2004, The Somerville News
Interview with Steve Almond
June 2004, Ibbetson Street Update
Czars of the Massachusetts Poetry Scene
May 2004, The Boston Girl Guide
Review of Deborah Priestly's The Woman has a Voice
May-June 2004, Premier Boston Magazine
Interview with Akrobatik
Out of the Blue Writers Unite: An Anthology of Fiction and Poetry from the Out of the Blue Art Gallery,
co-editor, December 2003, Crooked River Press