Samuel Vargo: 6 books

"A Stranger in this town" was written during one of the most challenging periods in Samuel Vargo's life, when he was recovering from a second heart attack. None of the poetry and prose in this work has been previously published.

"Why?" is absurdist and experimental work that was written by a writer who wanted to travel down new and intriguing paths of this important style of fiction- and prose-writing. "Why?" is an avant-garde mess of words that turn to sentences, to sections and then, to chapters. If...

One of the things I've learned by writing and submitting poems, stories, creative nonfiction and even journalism articles is how to handle rejection. If you write and want what you're writing published, it will be rejected. Maybe not most of it, but much of it will be sent back - usually accompanied...

Most of the work that appears in this volume was published by online literary e-zines. But there are quite a few poems included here that were published in print magazines, too. This collection goes back over three decades, and this time block includes a period where there was no Internet, only print...

I had no idea what I was going to do with all the flash comedy and satire that I’ve had published over the past few decades. The stuff kept collecting on my writer’s pages and on the dashboards of comedy and satire `zines I’ve contributed to, all over the Internet. So, I decided to put these...

I put together a collection of short stories to share with the reading public in this work. Some are flash-fiction pieces under 1,000 words. Others cap out around the six-to-eight-thousand-word mark. But most here fall somewhere between - it's funny how I talk in word volume, but that's just how we...