Nate Krenkel
@krenkel.bsky.social
Rhizome Radio at WMPG. TEAM LOVE and OYSTERTONES. Words at nathanielkrenkel.com No Bigger Than A Nickel pod. (he/him)
"With Nat, one step in David Sanborn’s direction meant all bets were off. She would look at me, and her face would say, you’re not funny, nor clever, nor cute. All fair and good. But part of me still thought, why don’t you like Al Jarreau?" fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/2024/07/31/n...
NATHANIEL KRENKEL
Guns, Al Jarreau, and Dreams Downstairs, I put on an Al Jarreau record and remember doing a cheesy dance for Nat while she emailed and sent text messages and tried to make plans for the kids’ socia…
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"A woman in a torn pink jacket pushing a shopping cart is singing Nothing Compares 2 U toward the airport which is dark apart from a string of sleeper-mode runway lights. I ask her if she’s seen a funny little round creature with one arm and she says, “maybe..." www.darkwinterlit.com/post/missing...
Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel
I’ve lost my stoned alien, but I am over my panic attack. I realize it’s later than I’d thought, virtually the middle of the night. [...]
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new episode of the podcast where we talk about MAGMA: #FrenchProg #MAGMA podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Episode 22 | Attahk
Podcast Episode · No Bigger than a Nickel · July 19 · 1h 5m
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"I kept crayon shavings in a cigar box. I’d listen to The Muppet Movie, picture families falling from wires and the man in black, and run my fingers through crayon shavings." nudebrucereview.com/wp-content/u...
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"I stared at the TV and tried not to rub my eyes. Allergies. Pink rims, micro-toxics, puffers at the ready, the wind a gunshot. The air, nothing shy of poison. THE ODD DUCK, written in someone’s finger in dirt and grime." sinkingcity.as.miami.edu/triptych-meep/
Triptych Meep – sinking city
A television, propped against a tree. Black and rectangular, by my standards, oversized; a bit of a monster really, bordering on obscene—the notion itself of the home theater not much different than that of a home sports arena, or home ski-slope—another absurd display of the decadence breaking the world, and our minds.
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"I move methodic, looking up every driveway, behind every shrub and fence. I return to the thought of calling friends over to help me rescue Florida from probing Feds in white lab coats, but the thing is, I don’t really have any friends." www.darkwinterlit.com/post/missing...
Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel
I’ve lost my stoned alien, but I am over my panic attack. I realize it’s later than I’d thought, virtually the middle of the night. [...]
darkwinterlit.com
This week we talked about a favorite LP of 2026: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
Episode 10 | Discombobulated
Podcast Episode · No Bigger than a Nickel · April 9 · 1h 4m
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"Back downstairs, Florida has finally found the show Pigs Go Boom. It consists of a group of pranksters placing explosive miniature pigs in unassuming places and then filming the reactions when the pigs explode into clouds of glitter and, apparently, foul stink." nudebrucereview.com/wp-content/u...
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"She’s a creepy clown; me, a frozen child. Florida’s arm launches from the top of his head, hinges 180 degrees until his palm is pressed firmly on the path before the statue, he lowers himself slowly to the ground, with the grace and exhale of a yoga master." www.darkwinterlit.com/post/missing...
Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel
I’ve lost my stoned alien, but I am over my panic attack. I realize it’s later than I’d thought, virtually the middle of the night. [...]
darkwinterlit.com
The truth is out there. Cool new story Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel @krenkel.bsky.social now up on DarkWinter Lit! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/missing...
Missing Space Alien by Nathaniel Krenkel
I’ve lost my stoned alien, but I am over my panic attack. I realize it’s later than I’d thought, virtually the middle of the night. [...]
darkwinterlit.com
"The air around him turned into a sunset, an exploding garden, a slow stiffening leak. He fed more food into his mouth, but swallowing was no longer an option. His cheeks expanded and swelled until they touched the walls and filled the room." maniamagazineue.wixsite.com/mania-magazi...
Congress Street
Congress Street
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“Jackson loathes golf…loathes how it attracts a certain type of white male, the type who gift Niall Ferguson books, are still on Facebook, eye-fuck the babysitter. He hates golf like he hates modern country music with its lyrics about shitty beer, date rape, and…” iselemagazine.com/2024/12/30/s...
Sports Ball | Nathaniel Krenkel
Jackson caresses his freshly shaven jawline and ponders whether or not the beard has become some kind of new fascist tell. He deliberates as he stands in the sporting goods store north of Stewart, …
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“….I realized the Bros were meeting at a club, one of those preppy social affairs where everyone’s in kakis, polo shirts, braided belts, and salmon-colored sportscoats. I was wearing black cutoffs covered in paint splatter and a Stereolab t-shirt.” 100subtextsmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/issu...
Issue 35 feature
Welcome to issue 35 of the literary magazine 100subtexts, with over 200 pages of the best and most diverse in contemporary writing and poe...
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“I hit PLAY. Seconds later The Psychedelic Furs are blasting out of the TV speakers. I’m rocking my head up and down. Florida is doing his towel-wave dance with his arm and kicking both his legs. All three limbs, growing.” thebittermelonreview.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/w...
Watching TV With Florida | Nathaniel Krenkel
“What’s this?” Florida¹ asks. “Ted Lasso? We tried it before, you didn’t like it because of the guy’s mustache.” “Really? I don’t remember. Can we try again?” “Sure.” I hit play. We watch Ted Lasso…
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
