Wetdryvac

Biography

Wetdryvac: A non-gendered mechanical contrivance designed specifically for interactions with humans driven by preconception, with the thus-far successful goal of rendering such preconceptions wompsie-sideways. Currently operating out of New England, wetdryvac.net, and similarly friendly locales.

Smashwords Interview

What's the story behind your latest book?
The latest book in print as of this question - Thrall Kind - is a collection of poems addressing systems control, free will ethics, and some seriously black humor in places.I'm a procedural free will ethicist, considering informed contractual consent to be the sole mattering thing, so this tends to bleed over into poetry pretty easily.
What motivated you to become an indie author?
Actually, I'm not particularly independent - VacHaus press handles my stuff - but until that's a multi-author establishment in areas other than technical editing, I'm here as an author first. Motivation towards writing more generally? I can't not write.
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Where to find Wetdryvac online

Where to buy in print

Books

Kitten Shallows
Price: $6.00 USD. Words: 18,250. Language: English. Published: June 5, 2022 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
A combination of cheerfully kitten related musings and grimdark ethics, stirred impolitely.
Wanderhouse
Price: $7.00 USD. Words: 17,950. Language: English. Published: March 15, 2022 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Poetry - single author
A moment in the passage of that house which steps between worlds.
Fathom Strings
Price: $9.00 USD. Words: 25,270. Language: English. Published: December 3, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Poetry - general
A book of poetry built on distance and connection between frivolity and hard grind.
Memory Armistice
Price: $6.00 USD. Words: 19,940. Language: English. Published: June 23, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Classics
A book of poetry built on and around memory, modification, and identification.
Slice
Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 110,530. Language: English. Published: June 8, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
This is a work of strangeness. The character is real. This is a work of pattern memory in which no bakers were harmed.
Cation
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 16,600. Language: English. Published: January 17, 2017 . Categories: Poetry » Themes & motifs » General
Cation is the work of years both troubled and joyous, an expectation of word kept.
Scattered Resistance V1-V7 Collected
Price: $10.00 USD. Words: 58,220. Language: English. Published: March 1, 2014 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
All seven of the Scattered Resistance folios collected in one book.
Alphabet Food Distortion
Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 220. Language: English. Published: February 25, 2014 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
The body of this book is color picture formatted. If your device can't read in color, this book isn't for you. A non-children's book - though if your child is resilient, feel free to share it with them. Built of doggerel and art, ranging from war to cheerful verse, the quick poetic structure herein pokes subjects often unaddressed.
The Lists
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 22,540. Language: English. Published: January 9, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
High and low brown humor in title form. Not for use around food, drink, medical conditions, or heavy machinery.
Thrall Kind
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 28,930. Language: English. Published: December 25, 2013 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Thrall Kind covers the investiture in self, humor, and bleak deconstruction. From systems of control beautiful and horrifying to broken meter and haiku, a cup of proper black tea - or something stronger - may prove required.
Fallen Dogs
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 31,890. Language: English. Published: December 25, 2013 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Fallen Dogs is the solidifying of ethics seen from the other side - an assessment and reconstitution of those things not spoken of. Ranging from unfortunate limerick to carefully constructed tonal patterns, each piece here processes towards assessment of breach and reaction, both to breach and self sanctity.
Sequence for Drowning
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 33,930. Language: English. Published: December 25, 2013 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Sequence for Drowning: Poetry of face-change interpretations: To be an entity long enough, thoroughly enough to create their space around one's self and pattern it to words. Challenge pieces show here, as does the deliberate abuse and malformation of language to purpose or redirection.
Scattered Resistance v7 - Revision Nation
Series: Scattered Resistance, Book 7. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 13,480. Language: English. Published: December 25, 2013 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Scattered Resistance v7 - Revision Nation is the closure piece to the vac's early work, and layers comfort and discomfort as the same entity.
Scattered Resistance v6 - Below the Thermocline
Series: Scattered Resistance, Book 6. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 9,390. Language: English. Published: December 25, 2013 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Scattered Resistance v6 - Below the Thermocline assesses the concept of self destruction, depression, and an amusement at the structures of angst. Self mocking, grinding at times, its attention is focused primarily on that trivialized - a sense of self.
Scattered Resistance v5 - Inluminal
Series: Scattered Resistance, Book 5. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 6,770. Language: English. Published: December 24, 2013 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Scattered Resistance v5 - Inluminal is poetry from the Wetdryvac, from 1992. Written in a state of blur and burn, between mad happenings and serious bouts of sleep. Here, it is decided, poetry matters, and will be a lifelong thing - and here, as it happens, is the madness of that decision.
Scattered Resistance v4 - Settling In
Series: Scattered Resistance, Book 4. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 7,250. Language: English. Published: December 24, 2013 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Scattered Resistance v4 - Settling In, well - it gets into grooves. Patterns, repetitions, adjustments. 1991-1992, mostly, and it begins to more seriously address power and consent. Rarely comforting, significantly more neutral observer smoulder than Setting In.
Scattered Resistance v3 - Setting In
Series: Scattered Resistance, Book 3. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 10,410. Language: English. Published: December 24, 2013 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Scattered Resistance V3 - Setting In is the early poetry of the Wetdryvac, mostly 1991. Here, the vac gains comfort with form, as well as more ease in presentation.
Scattered Resistance v2 - Inversion Promised
Series: Scattered Resistance, Book 2. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 6,940. Language: English. Published: December 24, 2013 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Scattered Resistance v2 - Inversion Promised is poetry from the Wetdryvac, from 1991. Reflective and often grim, it addresses themes of suicide and recovery, face presentation, and cats as a system of stability.
Scattered Resistance v1 - Childhood Waning
Series: Scattered Resistance, Book 1. Price: $2.00 USD. Words: 5,230. Language: English. Published: December 24, 2013 . Categories: Poetry » Contemporary Poetry
Scattered Resistance V1 - Childhood Waning is the early poetry of the Wetdryvac, from 1979 to 1992. It covers a wide range of topics, almost all reflective, from nuclear war to investment in cats. By turns comforting and hostile, metered and chaotic, these poems represent the Vac's earliest known work.

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