Kip Knott
@Kiptain62
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I am a writer, photographer, & part-time art dealer who travels the back roads of the Midwest & Appalachia taking pictures & searching for lost art treasures.
Delaware, OH
Joined July 2025
Here’s the opening of my first ever piece of speculative fiction, “Neighborhood Watch,” that just dropped in @MaudlinHouse Thanks to the editors for giving this story a home & to MarcMRodriguez for the perfect artwork. Click here to read the whole story https://t.co/krblEMiuZR
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“The rectangular box I lay at the bottom makes the hole look like a clock, with the top of the box marking twelve and the bottom of the box marking six.” @Kiptain62
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Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash by Kip Knott The hole I’ve spent thirty minutes digging is two feet deep and three feet round. The rectangular box I lay at the bottom makes the hole look like a...
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I’m always honored to have work in @BendingGenres. Here’s the opening paragraph of my new story “Monochromatic” that dropped today in Issue 47. Click the link below to read the whole story, as well as the other genre-bending works in this terrific issue. https://t.co/hFLdM9BimE
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It’s always a pleasure to work with the terrific editors at 101 Words. Many thanks to them for publishing my new microfiction, “Three-Day Thaw.” Click this link to visit their site: https://t.co/RTdEzE19VU
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Thank you to @jeff__harvey for including my story “By the Numbers” in the newest issue of @GooseberryPie99. Click here to check out all the stories in this amazing issue: https://t.co/Zldv8onwds
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Read "Gigging Bullfrogs in Hell" written by @Kiptain62 and illustrated by Courtney Burton.
ghostparachute.com
I can’t say I’m all that surprised I ended up in Hell after I died, but things are really starting to look up. I admit that I had to fight through some pretty formidable foes with nothing more than a...
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Here are the first two paragraphs of my new flash fiction “Gigging Bullfrogs in Hell.” Thank you to @brettpribble for including this story in @GhostParachute. And thank you to Courtney Burton for the artwork. Click here to read the full story: https://t.co/chJLl2mWd7
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Proud to have a new poem drop in @OneArtPoetry1 today. Many thanks to @MarkDanowsky for his continued support of my work. https://t.co/B5y307FpSP
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Self-Portraits in a Broken Mirror When you break the mirror this morning to celebrate turning 60, your ordinary face shatters into a hundred cutting shards like a running commentary on who you were…
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Here is a poem in honor of Mark Rothko’s birthday today. I don’t know where I’d be as a writer without Rothko’s paintings in the world. https://t.co/dB0gBO72X8
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Here’s my second poem, “Astronomers Explain Why There Are No Green Stars,” that dropped yesterday in Eunoia Review. Thank you to Clay Ennis Astrophotography for the beautiful image of the Lagoon Nebula. https://t.co/x5wuVoCyEn
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Here’s the first of two new poems that dropped today in Eunoia Review. Click this link to read the second poem, “Astronomers Explain Why There Are No Green Stars”: https://t.co/x5wuVoC0OP
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Whitman wholeheartedly believes that cats make the softest pillows.
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A poem for Labor Day from my book CLEAN COAL BURN (Kelsay Books, 2021). Make sure your coals are nice and hot. https://t.co/LGrJxEqmMc
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Happy Birthday to Charlie “Bird” Parker. Thank you to @GhostParachute for originally publishing this story back in May. #charlieparker #jazz
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Thank you for the shout out!
scaffold #133 premieres tomorrow morning at 6 am, but before then, snag a copy of the newest prose collection by scaffold #132 writer, @Kiptain62! https://t.co/waEjShXB00
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Thanks for giving this piece a great home!
our current feature is, "the unfinished autobiography of king midas," by kip knott. this one is really creative and thought-provoking, so take a read here! https://t.co/KA4wx2TUZ0
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Another blast from the past from another zine that I really miss. Thank you to Second Chance Lit for originally publishing this piece back in 2021.
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Happy 5th birthday to @havehadhavehad. Thank you for the four skulls you’ve given me over the years! https://t.co/6VqQ3g3Ix2
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Read "X-Ray Flowers" written by @Kiptain62 and illustrated by @amybookwhisper1.
ghostparachute.com
You covered the walls of our home with photographs of x-rayed flowers because you believed the images were the closest humans ever got to capturing ghosts on film. But I never fully understood why...
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