Mario Senzale

Writer • Mathematician • Curator

Holding a grudge against the entire human species - Fuck data centers

Welcome

Good evening, stranger. Well of course it's evening, what else could it be?
Sit down, relax, and immerse yourself in some dense reading, a couple paintings, a few tunes, it's all on me.

This site exists as an archive, preserving both current publications and unpublished works by Mario Senzale - some of which may not meet editorial standards.

Publications

News

Saturday, May 16, 2026

"The Toad King's Rapture" has been published in Croak magazine. I wrote this... story? poem? a while ago and shelved it - but the guys from Croak liked it so good for it.

Thursday, May 14, 2026

"The Pad King" has been accepted for publication in Lowestoft Chronicle. I finally started getting back in the game - two stories written in a week, we'll see how long it lasts. I'm currently more focused on getting the book completed (just replaced a story by a new one) and making a killer piece of art - maybe including some drawings inside and all.

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

"The Hamster Business" and "Holding Space" have been accepted for publication in Tension and effy. My friend Marcel finished reading the book and is starting the drawings, so hopefully we'll have some artwork soon. I sent the book to some small publishers some months ago but I'm quite skeptic anyone will want to publish it, we'll see.

Saturday, April 25, 2026

"The Electrician" has been accepted for publication in Paw and Claw Ink. One of my experimental micro-pieces, I tried to make the reader feel what it feels like when you drive from the outskirts of Chicago. What more can I tell you? Well, one of my colleague artists is reading the first draft of my book before looking into drawing some art for it - I'm excited about that. I'm also waiting to be in a better state of mind to get back to writing - I tried to write last week, a crime thriller story, but it didn't up great; I forced myself to write, to be honest. This all will pass and I'll be in a more creative wavelength - I have a couple unfinished stories to work on (including one about a guy who's pride gets him eaten by a bowl of Pad Thai), and more will come, but I need time.

Tuesday, April 8, 2026

"County Lane Road" has been accepted for publication in JMWW. This was a complicated one: it got accepted by Kweli, then it got rejected by Kweli, then I sent it to like 15 different places and kept getting bounced back. I think it's one of my best ones so I'm happy it got placed somewhere. I apologize if I don't have that many updates lately - been fighting against data centers while working full time and trying to decide if the US is the best place for me and my family. Also, John Sabey is a bitch.

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

"Very Unprofessional" has been accepted for publication in Cum Punk magazine. I love it that I'm preparing a lawsuit to a multi-billion-dollar company and trying to get the story across to journalists while getting stories accepted in magazines specifically about cum - that's versatility.

Thursday, March 19, 2026

"Smog" has been accepted for publication in the #13th issue of Haunted Words Press. This was my story "for kids", branching out! In unrelated things, I know there's people more intelligent than me, but I don't think there's people more intelligent than us. Just throwing it there.

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

The devil won. Fuck them all.

Sunday, March 15, 2026

If you're near Indianapolis, this Wednesday, March 18 is the final vote of the Metropolitan Development Commission regarding the rezoning for a data center in southwest Indianapolis. Please attend, bring a sign that says "NO", do whatever you want to show we the people are against this fucking shit. Sabey Corps, owned by billionaire John Sabey, will bring its union thugs to call us all white trash as they did last time. Be prepared. These people are the devil, and I mean that in the most literal way. That's what my book is about. That's what most of my stories are about. The devil walks among us. Always has. Always will. More info here.

Saturday, February 28, 2026

"No Bad Parts" has been accepted for publication in the 'World Upside Down' anthology. It's my first anthology publication so I'm stoked about that!

Thursday, February 26, 2026

"The Protester" has been accepted for publication in Twisted Tongue Press - very nice people! This one I wrote it right after the Maduro incident. In other news, today I wrote my first story "for kids" and submitted it to a couple middle grade magazines - I'm also into traumatizing future generations.

Saturday, February 21, 2026

"The Money Shot" has been accepted for publication in God's Cruel Joke. This was one of my earlier pieces where I tried to write in a more Ballard, noir style - along with Silent Birth, which I don't know why no one is buying. Love that it went to a magazine of speculative erotics!

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

"The King is Merciful" has been accepted for publication in Kennings Artistic and Literary Journal, an undergrad publication from Hanover College (IN). I tried to place this one over 10 times, so I'm pretty happy it finally found a home.

Tuesday, February 13, 2026

"Holy Thursday" and "Magnolia Oaks" have been accepted for publication! I was asked not to disclose the "Holy Thursday" one yet (I mean, which magazine accepted it), but "Magnolia Oaks" went to House of Arcanum. Looks like the market gets hotter in February! "Magnolia Oaks" is the second one I tried to "overwrite" - but with a purpose.

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

“ELDV" has been accepted for publication in Möbius Blvd. Pretty cool covers!

Friday, February 6, 2026

“Lesser Evils" has been accepted for publication in the first issue of Gnome and Bone magazine. It's been some time since my last acceptance - I haven't been writing that much these days, neither submitting. But in a couple weeks we'll start with the line edits for my first collection so I'm hyped.

Wednesday, January 20, 2026

“Procedures” has been accepted for publication in Chatterbox! I love flash, but this one ran past 4,000 words (don’t expect that from me again). Is it a descent into madness? A spiraling mind? To me, it’s about exposing your insides to win affection from a machine that can never love you back. So yeah. Writing.
In other news, I got all the stories ready for the first book (40% have already been accepted in magazines - hope by the time it comes out that number is 100!). It will be edited by Kevin Shamel, bizarro writer of such masterpieces as Porn Land and Bigfoot Cop.

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

One of my favorite stories so far, "Tuberculus Mom", has been accepted for publication by Hollow Oak Presents - hope people read it!
Note to self: I contacted ergot and Interzone to withdraw this one afterwards - both told me they were really considering it for publication. Next time, I will send "Hi, I have an offer on this piece from another venue. Do you have an update on your timeline?" before withdrawing stuff.

Wednesday, January 2, 2026

First acceptance of the year! "The Last of Us", my pandemic story, got accepted in Raw Lit. That's an unhinged one, very fun to write (and hopefully to read).

Tuesday, January 1, 2026

We're still in no news mode - well, actually, been getting the daily rejections. It's odd that so far I have no acceptances from Submittable (0.5/72 - 0.5 because one fell through), 3/8 from Duosuma, and the remaining 15 from emails - "the voice of the underground" (yeah right.)

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

To end the year, "Consumption II" and "Bob" are up in Horror Sleaze Trash and Midwest Weird, respectively!

Sunday, December 28, 2025

"The Universal Key" got into Neon and Smoke! They rejected one of mine before, so this feels good. Here’s hoping all those popular mags where “interviewed authors” appear finally catch up.

Monday, December 22, 2025

No updates today - just wanted to write somewhere my current goal: once I reach 50 published stories, I will look into getting some sort of physical book out. It will be called "Everything costs and nobody got." Today I wrote my most ambitious story so far. It's called "Procedures". Let's see where it lands.

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

"Fumes” has been accepted for publication in Quotidian Bagatelle, a new imprint by Foofaraw press. 23 words, wrote it after reading a couple Lydia Davis microfiction pieces. I had already placed it in the "unpublishable" folder so quite a surprise - and got $1 for it! In other things, I'm quite surprised that none of my "horror" stories have found a home yet. Maybe editors don't appreciate my hammer-in-the-head approach to horror - or maybe they haven’t been hit hard enough yet.

Monday, December 15, 2025

"Diversified” has been accepted for publication in Last Girls' Club. Very cool zine with podcast, print and all! It was one of the first stories I wrote, and the one that made me decide to write with a pseudonym - very political but fun.

Monday, December 9, 2025

"The Bull” has been accepted for publication in Horrific Scribes. The editor was incredible, his magazine's all about transgressive stuff so I sent one of my most transgressive tales - a story about racism in America. "I think what you've done is brilliant... very risky, but brilliant," he said. In other updates, looks like the publication in Kweli fell through. I was hyped about it, exchanged a couple messages with the editor, I guess shit happens. I still have blind faith in that one!

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

"An Occurrence at County Lane Road” has been accepted for publication in Kweli Journal. Woke up, grabbed my phone (first thing in the morning, like any addict), saw “Kweli Journal” and thought: oh cool, another rejection. Instead: “We love your art and would like to publish your piece.” Let’s go!

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

“Bait” has been accepted for publication in Ink In Thirds magazine. After nearly 20 years away from fiction, I started writing again in July 2025. When I wrote this story (after hearing Patty Griffin’s “Big Daddy” on the radio) it was the first time I thought "oh, I can actually write." I sent it out to many places, but it kept getting rejected. Yesterday, I decided to change the ending; I suspected it was too subtle. It’s still subtle, but it seems that the revision made my intentions clearer to editors.

Saturday, November 29, 2025

"White Chocolate Macadamia Nut" has been accepted for publication in Northwest Indiana Literary Journal. I think it's pretty cool, borderline non-fiction.

Friday, November 28, 2025

"Consumption II" has been accepted for publication in Horror Sleaze Trash. It's natural place. It's my partner's favorite tale.

Thursday, November 27, 2025

"Scrub Scrub" and "The Tiger-Striped Cat" have been accepted for publication in Serotonin and Quill To Fill, respectively. Good stories, human. I'm still waiting for my "heavy-weights" to be accepted somewhere (just got rejection from Podcastle after a praising first review).

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

"The Pear Tree" has been accepted for publication! This one was a bit of a struggle to get it accepted, not sure why. It's about my biggest fear since I relocated to the USA. Looking forward to seeing it online, Issue 5!

Friday, November 22, 2025

"Town Hall" was accepted for publication today in Weird Daze Lit Magazine. It’s my first paid publication, so I guess I’m officially a pro. Enough for a coffee at Speedway (probably not at Starbucks). It's a horror story based on my experience going to the town hall to protest against a data center near my house.

Friday, November 21, 2025

"The Bay" was accepted for publication today in Temple in a City, an online magazine. The editor wrote "People talk about stories that linger after you read them and I think many of us aspire to that but this one actually did it". Highest praise I've got in my (short) career, over the moon!

Thursday, November 13, 2025

"Bob" was accepted for publication last week in Midwest Weird, an audio magazine. Good for him. Took me a week to reply, as I have been focused on community activism to get a data center our of my backyard. NIMBY! It was accepted after a couple days. It's very strange that I either get rejections after months or very quick acceptances. Polarizing stuff.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

"The House on O Street" has just been published in Expat Press. Sent it, one hour later, available online. Hope that's a good thing. I wrote it back in August after staying in some gentrified Airbnb during a conference trip to DC. It'd been "In Progress" at a couple other places since then. I think it's a cool piece, funny, bitter, subtle. Probably my best flash to this date.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

"Symphonies of Desire" has just been accepted for publication in Modern Alchemy Press' first short story collection "TV DEATH ZINE: Volume I". Physical book, very excited about it! Got it accepted in about a day. I think it's a great piece of gothic filth. Hope it's available soon!

Friday, October 24, 2025

This is the beginning of this archive. A couple days ago I had "Cleveland, Ohio" - my first story in 20 years - accepted by a new online magazine, Cryptic Frog, about a day after submission. Pretty neat. Then, I decided to store all my pieces somewhere. Here. They'll make a wonderful book someday. Or an awful one that nobody will read. We'll see.

Contact

Contact: Here's my email. No soliciting. Here's a guestbook as well.