Matt Bell

If she happens to suggest
A love based on trust and respect,
Tell I've been wasted since last week.
If she wants to stop on by,
Tell her that I almost died.
Tell her I ain't seein' people yet.
But see if she'll send cigarettes.

If she asks don't tell her 'bout the bloodshed in the streets,
The less she knows, the less she can repeat.
If she happens to bring up
The pin pricks and the throwin' up,
Tell her it's just part of growin' up.
If she wants to get involved,
Tell her to stay in St. Paul.
Tell her I'm not up to takin' calls,
Ask her for some Adderall.

--"Ask Her for Adderall," by The Hold Steady

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Matt Bell lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he is working on his first novel. His writing has previously appeared or is upcoming in magazines such as Hobart, Barrelhouse, Caketrain, Juked, Keyhole, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency and will be included in the anthologies Best American Fantasy 2008 and Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years.  His story "Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken" was a finalist for the 2007 Storyglossia Fiction Prize and the winner of the 2008 Million Writers Award.

He is also the Book Review Editor for NewPages and will be a member of the Dzanc Writer in Residence Program for the 2008-2009 school year.

He can be reached via e-mail at mdbell79@gmail.com.

• Ken Sent Me: Lost in the Land of the Lounge Lizards (upcoming in Hobart #9, 2008)
• Ten Scenes From a Movie Called Mercy (upcoming in No Colony 001, 2008)
• Non-Medical Descriptions of an Object Floating in Glass (upcoming in Lamination Colony, 2008)
• Mario's Three Lives (upcoming in Best American Fantasy, 2008)
• BeautyForever™ (upcoming in Barrelhouse #7, 2008)
• The Girls of Channel 2112 (upcoming in Monkeybicycle #6, 2008)
• How They Were Found and Who They Were That Found Them (upcoming in Wigleaf, 2008)
• The Sweet Stuff (upcoming in Keyhole #5, 2008)
• Hold On To Your Vacuum (upcoming in Keyhole #6, 2009)
• Creating a Radio (published in elimae, 2008)
• The Folk Singer Dreams of Time Machines (published in Smokelong Quarterly #21, 2008)
• Like a Giant Beacon (published in Juked, 2008)
• Stealing Susan (published in Bruiser Review, 2008, and upcoming in Oleander Review, 2008)
• Custard's Last Stand (published in Dogzplot Flash Fiction, 2008)
• Alex Trebek Never Eats Fried Chicken (published in Storyglossia 23, 2007)
• A Certain Number of Bedrooms, a Certain Number of Baths (published in Caketrain 04, 2007)
• Mario's Three Lives (published in Bound Off, 2006, and in Barrelhouse #4, 2007)
• Anything (published in Greatest Uncommon Denominator, 2007)
• Player Piano (published in Juked, 2006)
• Excerpt From Volume H-Hn: Hair Boxes (published in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, 2006)
• The Present (published online in juked, 2006, then reprinted in juked print #4)
• The Diner (published in The Quiet Feather, 2006)
• The Raincheck (published in Storyglossia #15, 2006)
• An End to Efficient Vehicles (published in Rumble, 2006) 
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• The Plastic Surgeon's Wife (published in Thieves Jargon,  2006)
• Instructions For My Twenty-Third Year (published in Edifice Wrecked, 2006)
• How the Broken Lead the Blind Until They Both Become Something Else Entirely (published in Smokelong Quarterly #13, 2006)
• White Lines and Headlights (published in Barrelhouse #2, 2006)
• Rest Stop (published in Hobart #5, 2005)
• Twenty Fingers (published in FRiGG, 2005)
• Ground Rules (published in FRiGG, 2005)
• Five Pop Quizzes (published in FRiGG, 2005)
• Separate Checks (published in Me Three, 2005)
• How to Befriend a Chimera (published in The Beat, 2005)
• Joseph's Dilemma (published in Monkeybicycle, 2005)
• The Birthday Gift (published in The Detroiter, 2005)
• Fireworks (published in Cellar Door, 2004)
• Respect (published in Metal Scratches, 2004)
• Something Less Than Beautiful (published in The Driftwood Review, 2004)
• El Camino Education (published in The Drexel Online Journal, 2004)
• 91.67:8.33 (published in Thieves Jargon, 2004)