ABOUT THE BOOK
In free verse, prose poem, and micro-fiction formats, Pink X-Ray explores the interior lives of a variety of characters— from precariously balanced war veterans and jilted lovers, to disaffected police detectives and widowed husbands—each of whom find themselves navigating the often surreal terrain of everyday existence.
In pieces ranging from “Safety Dancing for the Recovering Arsonist,” to “Ken Plans a Trip to Toys R Us” and from “Honey Gets Her Wish” to “Abandoned House,” Pink X-Ray traverses the themes of loyalty/betrayal, emotional connection/alienation, vulnerability/resilience, and love/desire.
As the poet Howie Good writes, the poetry and fiction contained in Pink X-Ray, “remind us that good literature is not only something to read, but also something to experience.”
Table of Contents
- Veteran’s Benefits
- Note to Self
- Tehachapi Seven Eleven
- Abandoned House
- Honey Gets Her Wish
- March Snow at Arlington
- Quarry Lake
- Death Explained
- An Apostate Visits the Temple of
the Buddha - In Golden Gate Park
- The Mug Shot Photographer
- Burnt Ghost
- Safety Dancing for the Recovering Arsonist
- Everything Happens for a Reason
- A Passenger
- Rouge Canoe
- A Prisoner of Love
- The Distant Shooting I Hear Reminds Me of the Boys in Marketing
- Two Buds at Cotillion
- Perfect Background Music
- Not Enough Bullets
- Ken Plans a Trip to Toys “R” Us
- Visiting Los Angeles’ National Veterans’ Cemetery, Westwood, CA
- Rattlers
- I Drive to North Carolina the Day After the Execution of My Wife’s Murderer
- Oh, How I Almost Loved You
- Horse Fly
- The Last to Know
- Hatchet Job
- Snowman
- Last Night at the Holiday Inn
- The Next Thing You Know
- Naked to the Waist
- Las Vegas Jackpot
- The Snow Leopard
- Second Cousins
- The Scream
- A Stabbing
- What I Heard from the Girl who Tends Bar at “The Blackboard”
- Shaving Mirror
- I am a Telephone
- They’re Reading My Mind Again
- That’s a Whole Other Story
- Friday Night Drive to Watertown
- Amateur Advice
- Doppler Effect
- Since Dad Left
- The Truth about Love
- Waiting Room View
- A Bite, Not a Sting
- Your Words Are Like Heaven
- Cyborg’s Blue Quantum Love Dance
- Makes No Difference
- Tattoo Lover
- Me and Buddy at the Pink Elephant
- Rented Tux
- Escape Artist
- The Traveling Salesman Problem
- True Religion
- Titanic
- Even the Trees
- Bull-Leaping to Bach Cantata No. 54 (Stand Firm Against Sin)
- Mr. Wittgenstein Writes to Ms. Stein
- Luck
- A Girl Like You
Brad Rose was born and raised in southern California, and lives in Boston.
He is a Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, a 2013 recipient of Camroc Press Review’s, Editor’s Favorite Poetry Award, and the 2014 winner of un-Fold Magazine’s “FIVE (5) Contest” for his found poem “Signs of Reincarnation at Le Parker Meridien Hotel, NY, NY.”
His poetry and fiction have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Boston Literary Magazine, The Baltimore Review, San Pedro River Review, Off the Coast, Third Wednesday, Right Hand Pointing, Midwest Quarterly,The Potomac, Santa Fe Literary Review, The Common Line Journal, The Molotov Cocktail, Sleetmagazine, Monkeybicycle, Camroc Press Review, MadHat Lit, Burning Word, and other publications.
Links to his poetry and fiction can be found at: http://bradrosepoetry.blogspot.com
Brad’s chapbooks of poetry and fiction can be read at: Democracy of Secrets, Coyotes Circle the Party Store, and Dancing School Nerves.
Select mini stories can be read at:
Kissin’ Cousins
Bardot’s Fifth Husband
The Chief’s Coaster Brakes
Swimming Lesson
Homage to Marge

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Wellesley, Massachusetts
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