Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 06, 2026
Mitchell Waldman

Mitchell Waldman

Mitchell Waldman's fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in numerous publications. He is also the author of the novel, A FACE IN THE MOON, was co-editor with Diana May-Waldman of WOUNDS OF WAR: POETS FOR PEACE, and is Fiction Editor for Blue Lake Review.

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About Mitchell Waldman

Mitchell Waldman's fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Piker Press, The MacGuffin, Fictive Dream, Corvus Review, The Waterhouse Review, Crack the Spine, The Houston Literary Review, The Faircloth Review, Epiphany, Wilderness House Literary Magazine, The Battered Suitcase, and many other magazines and anthologies. He is also the author of the novel, A Face in the Moon, and the story collections Brothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers, and Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart, and serves as Fiction Editor for Blue Lake Review. His new novel, The Visitor, is due out soon from All Things That Matter Press. (For more info, see his website at http://mitchwaldman.homestead.com).

Books by Mitchell Waldman

Short

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  • The Miracle Man

    Suddenly he's got it made ... and has the chance to crawl out of the grave he's dug for himself all those drunken years ...

  • The Alignment of the Planets

    The sun rises, and morning speeds by, full of discovery, deeds, and plans. But as the day wanes, light dims, and the minutes go by so slowly that nightfall seems to have lost its way...

  • Getting His Wings

    Losing a friend is heart-breaking. Consolation only comes when you can accept the new horizon that friend must surely see ...

  • Fortunate Son

    Is there any ideology, any border, any conflict worth the price of your child?

  • Spirits in the Night

    Listen carefully...and quietly...

  • Tell Me Something I Don't Know

    What was hidden is found...

  • Diamonds and Demons

    One moment, one look, and the context of life changes...

  • Stealing

    Should have listened to the song' words...

  • Neighbors

    If you've got good ones, be very, very glad...

Poem

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  • New York, 1979: A Collage

    "Wayward nowhere to go ragged men with fertilized grizzled faces, bulbous noses, one eye hollow, the other attacking ..."

  • I Will Never Know Their Names

    "It doesn't seem like too much to think about you, once (or twice) in my life ..."

  • Street of Dreams

    '...your eyes eager and bright<br /> like a newly discovered star<br /> on a distant ancient night...'

Serial

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  • The Duke of Broad Street

    Mitchell Waldman's fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in numerous publications. He is also the author of the novel, A FACE IN THE MOON, was co-editor with Diana May-Waldman of WOUNDS OF WAR: POETS FOR PEACE, and is Fiction Editor for Blue Lake Review.

  • The Duke of Broad Street 2

    The strange bum with the guitar turns Natalie's world inside out with one simple sentence ...

  • The Duke of Broad Street 3

    Conclusion. He'd been one of the "Dukes," long ago in what seemed like a different life. He knew he never would be one again, but there is a second chance to be something else ...