offbeat, surreal fiction and poetry

Pete O'Brien

born in the Midwest, lives in Maryland

"(Pete O'Brien's The Loose Purple Tie: 3 Novellas is) an original, mind-bending, and surreal exploration of creativity....quirky, fresh language...at times dreamlike and poetic....playful humor...utterly unpredictable surprises....gems of insight and wisdom woven into the stories...."

-Laura Resau, Author of What the Moon Saw

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"O'Brien's writing is a marvel of style, a fountain of whimsy, intimate and sly, plain-spoken yet always suprising - you can never tell where any sentence will go - occasionally harrowing but consistently laugh-out-loud funny."

-John Foley, Web Editor of FlashPoint,

Books

Two supremely original stories. In "Wrecking Ball," Clay gets rich quick but can't seem to avoid getting hit just as quick as he...

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[Ebook cover.] Read THE SUBSTANTIVE THIEF alongside an old-school nonsense novel. The world you will land in...

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ARRIVAL DAY is a phospholuminescent romp about a pivotal accident and its aftermath that is as strange as...

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HAIKU WONDER contains over eight hundred haikus. Now the plight of the natural world is on Pete's mind, and he is healed in his...

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Pete O'Brien's storytelling debut. Here writer Morgan Staunch finds himself on the page of his own story: his character Henrieta...

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A wide-ranging collection of frolicking poems with a light touch and robust juxtaposition of words, sounds, and images...

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THE OLD ROAD contains over eighty short poems. Nature is often the theme, but so are parking lots, cosmonaut squirrels...

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[Paperback cover.] Read THE SUBSTANTIVE THIEF alongside an old-school nonsense novel. The world you will land in...

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The poems of THE MAGNIFICENT MUNIFICENCE zip, zap, and zup with the quirky, weird, and surreal. A highly imaginative journey...

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Art

a section from an unfinished painting

(untitled) acrylics on canvas

by Pete O'Brien - October 2, 2019

Literary Magazine

Pete O'Brien is published in FlashPoint. Visit www.flashpointmag.com, and click on Web Issues 10, 12, 13, and 18.

Getting in Touch: Email: obrienp (dot) email (at) gmail (dot) com