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Pete Armetta
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Pete Armetta is a writer of Flash Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories and Essays. With a style that's been called accessible and broad, unpredictable and matter-of-fact, Pete is a genuine, self-taught outsider. His stories and poetry fend off conventionality and he's never easy to pigeonhole.
He doesn't wanna be.
Herbert
Even though you know it's coming, nothing can prepare you for that sudden great loss ...
Scrapper
No matter how many hours you've spent chatting, emailing, posting ... there is one point that looms terrifyingly in the future ...
Overland
There is a life, and a way of life, that few understand -- but for those few, the horizon is endless, and the present full of riches ...
What Love Is
Yes, that is.
New Normal
Living can be hard work even at the best of times, but a time comes when the effort of staying alive makes one long for retirement ...
Pecorino
The best flavors are the ones you can taste from your heart out...
Life As An Aesthete
To savor each day, to soak in all the beauty that surrounds us, from the minute to the mountainous...is there any higher calling?
The Landing
Our lives flow along like the waters of a river, and where we find ourselves is at least partly due to how we use the current...
Lemming
Nothing like a high school class reunion to find out how different you've become...
Indigo
He always knew where to find her...
Out to Slab City
When the economy tanked, peoples' lives were infected as with disease; careers died, lifestyles perished -- even relationships sickened. For some, the only remnant of hope left was to cut away the infection and get beyond the reach of the contagion...
I Remember Your Smile
A second chance would be the perfect gift to share...
Gypsy Hill
Sometimes a man has to take a stand, even when it's a seat.
The Locket
Time passes, and well-wishers always try to tell you it's good to move on. But what if you don't know how to move on? What if you're not sure you want to?
Where I'm Going I'll Stay
"I'll think of you, imagining you everywhere..."
There Is No Cure
There they are, the most hopeless words ever to be heard from your physician. What will this mean for the rest of your life? Who could love, who could stand someone so afflicted?
Gotta Have a Twist
When does art turn into just another damn job?
Meet John Taylor
You met this guy at the bus stop, didn't you? I think I met him, too...
Lesbian Pass
And sometimes what it's all about isn't what it's all about.
That's How Much
15%? 20%? You know what you need to pull out of that wallet...
Heart Line
What if there really is nothing to it?
You Know It
Well, yes, but did you really have to say it?
The Del Mundo
Light a candle for remembrance, let it burn...for the passion once felt...
All the Way to Albuquerque
A long way, and the roads were fast and dry with a mirage at the end of them all...
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Pete Armetta
Pete Armetta is a writer of Flash Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories and Essays. With a style that's been called accessible and broad, unpredictable and matter-of-fact, Pete is a genuine, self-taught outsider. His stories and poetry fend off conventionality and he's never easy to pigeonhole.
He doesn't wanna be.
Pete is a native New Yorker living in Charlottesville, VA, USA, via too many other places to count. It's a life of mountains and big sky and dogwoods and hawks. Of back roads and wood-burning stoves. It's bourbon and mint from the garden in spring and swimming in the river in summer. Currently applying for writing fellowships and residencies, Pete writes full-time, having given up his former corporate and button-down existence to fully embrace and hone his craft.
You only live once, right?
Pete's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gadfly Magazine, The River Journal, Expats Poetry, Take It To the Street Poetry, Subtle Fiction, Marco Polo Arts Magazine, Best New Poems, Cynic Online Magazine, Blue Lake Review, Stone Path Review, The Piker Press and Occupy Poetry. One of Pete's stories, Craters and Rocks, was featured in the 2012 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. Publication of Pete's first poetry collection, New Future, is coming in autumn.
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