James K. Moran
$6
Journeys in 22 pagespublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
He grew a beard in the desert,
crossed continents,
fell into Zen trance,
drifted in space,
retreated to his heart
In a primary-coloured trail of penance,
the hero’s soul bled word balloons,
debated if killing was moral,
decided to wear or shuck a mantle,
to go on or back, or not
wanting you to walk alongside,
come back to yourself,
learning of and in change,
a sixteen year-old’s loneliness
in the smell of classroom chalk,
spring mud,
an empty evening
November 2026
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James K. Moran writes across the genres about grief, love, nomadic superheroes and drag-queen warlocks. His poetry and speculative fiction have appeared in Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology, Burly Tales: Fairy Tales for the Hirsute and Hefty Gay Man, Bywords, Glitterwolf, On Spec, and elsewhere. Moran’s fiction collection Fear Itself and horror novel Town & Train were published by Lethe Press. His reviews appear in Arc Poetry Magazine, Plenitude and Strange Horizons. In 2012, Moran founded the Little Workshop of Horrors, an Ottawa writers’ group that carves speculative and literary work into the shape it is meant to be. He also runs Queer Speculations, which workshops LGBTQIA+ or queer-themed stories from far and wide. Findable at jameskmoran.blogspot.ca, jamestheballadeer.bsky.social on Bluesky and jamestheballadeer on Instagram.
Moran lives in Ottawa, on the unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.
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