Martin Hill Ortiz
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I was born cute but I never lived up to my potential.
As to exactly how I got here, I have to blame my shoes. You see, after I lost half of my socks in the dryer, the bottom half, now my cold toes poke about my boots. A vampire from ankles on down, my toenails would peel off if they ever saw the sun.
Which is why I hide here, standing in front of you.
And the critics agree, “Yes, it’s pretty, but is it madness? It’s like he’s never tasted night before.”
So I hold out these words, my pre-shredded soul, for everyone to come see, to marvel, saying, “Oh, what a gorgeous bit of ruin.”
Martin Hill Ortiz (b. 19?? - d. 20??) lives and writes in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Writing, stage and screen:- Staged Readings: The Backyard, Scenes For Two Actors, and Village Idiots
- Plays produced: Morse and Jeannie; Tildy; The Acting Lesson
- “Cruel and Usual,” screenplay
- Short Story: “Alternative Endings,” Haunts Magazine
- 2nd and 3d place, Poetry Competition, NWA, South Florida Chapter. 1993
- 2nd place prize,National Federation of State Poetry Society Contest, 1997
- Miami National Poetry Slam Representative, August 1997
- 1st place, NWA 1st Novel Competition, South Florida Chapter, 1998
- Representative L.A. Poetry Festival, 1999.
- Essay: “Greatest Sentence,” Slow Trains Literary Journal, 2005.
- Short Story, “Hanger Nade,” Miami Accent Magazine, 2005.
- Poetry published in Crescendo magazine, Exquisite Corpse; others.
- “The Ballad of Preacher Paul,” somos en escrito, 2011
Websites:
- jivepuppi - Murders in West Memphis
- someone exactly like me - The Great Campaign Blog
Copyright © 2011 by Martin Hill Ortiz
