Jake Cosmos Aller
Jake Cosmos Aller
@jakecosmosaller@theworldaccordingtocosmos.com

I am a novelist, poet and retired U.S. diplomat having served 27 years in the Foreign Service. I have been writing poetry and short stories for decades, and have published my poetry and fiction in over 25 literary journals. My poetry can best be described as “neo-beatnik” as growing up in Berkeley I was been heavily influenced by the beatnik writers.
I have completed four SF novels, – Giant Nazi Spiders, the Great Divorce, Jurassic Cruise, and Ft. Ashland. I hope to have all four readied for possible publication within the next six months. I have completed ten volumes of poetry and one volume of short stories.

During my foreign service career, I served in ten countries (Korea, Thailand, India, the Eastern Caribbean (lived in Barbados but covering Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts, St Lucia, and St Vincent) and Spain

I grew up in Berkeley, California and have lived in Berkeley, Stockton, Seattle, Washington DC, San Antonio, Texas and Medford, Oregon, and have traveled to 49 states, and 45 foreign countries. I speak Korean, Thai, and Spanish. I am married with no children. I live half the year in Korea and half the year in the United States.

the views expressed here are my own personal views and do not reflect the views of any of my prior employers.

my web page is https://theworldaccordingtocosmos.com

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  • Moxibustion Updates

    Moxibustion Treatment Korea: Updates In early November, my wife and I went to Daegu to check out a Moxibustion center.  The owner had invented a moxibustion clay pot system suitable for home use.  It is odorless and smokeless Up to now, to do moxibustion, you have to go to an authorized center (and some of…

  • Ugly Writers’ Updates

    Ugly Writer Update: The ugly writers, based in the Philippines, have published some more of my writing. Index of recent writing. The last race The Association of the Living Dead Secret Gateways The lonely mother duck The Secret Spy Fly Drone Failure poems Failure is not an option My failures Presidential failures Total Success or…

  • Moxibuston Treatment

    Moxibustion Treatment Korea One of the joys of living in Korea is the widespread availability of oriental medicine {한의학}– acupuncture, acupressure, herbal treatments, and moxibustion, ( 灸 뜸) and traditional Korean saunas including the famous charcoal saunas.  The sauna business was badly hit by the COVID shutdowns, but they have survived, and many have re-opened. …

  • Revolt of the Sharks

    Revolt of the Sharks Black Ink Press has accepted my 100-word drabble, “Revolt of the Sharks” in their upcoming anthology, “Animal Cages”. I also submitted Squirrel bombs Death to All Humans The Cats Declare War on Humanity The Animal World Revolts Index Squirrel bombs Death to All Humans The Cats Declare War on Humanity The…

  • Peace Corps Korea Reflections

    Peace  Corps Korea Reflections This is a shout-out to all the Americans who answered the call to serve in the Peace Corps.  As some of you know I served in Gapyeong, Korea from 1979 to 1981, working as a tuberculous control worker in a rural health center.  Serving in the Peace Corps changed my life…

  • Querencia Publishes Madmen with Guns

    Querencia Publishes Madmen with Guns Guernica Magazine will publish my poem, “Madmen with Guns” in an anthology.  “Madmen with Guns” also has been published in “Down In the Dirt” magazine. I submitted the following to the magazine: Madmen with Guns Maga America Squid Games Cosmos Takes Over Pensively Buddha Nature of Guns Other recent publications…

  • Spillwords Publishes Gun Madness

    Spillwords Publishes Gun Madness Thank you for your recent submission! Below are the publication details to your poetry “Dazzling Light of the Full Moon” will be published on 8/21/22 at 2am Eastern Time (ET)         Below is the link to it once published: https://spillwords.com/dazzling-light-of-the-full-moon/ Dazzling Light Of The Full Moon The New…

  • Synchronized Chaos Update

    Synchronized Chaos Update Synchronized Chaos has published five of my recent poems.  See below for prior publication. Synchronized Chaos Publishes New Poems The Last Race   An Aging car racer Racing in his last race Driving too fast Around the curve Blowing himself up In a fiery crash The rating score In his last race.…

  • Reading the Classics Updated Lists

    Reading the Classics Updated Lists As some of you know, I have been reading the classics. I started last year on my  65th birthday, and have  enjoying it.  I found a three-volume series on Kindle titled 50 books you must read before you die, and also found the Harvard classics.  Three years ago, I figured…

  • Visit to Gangwha Ginseng Market

            Venice in Korea WHERE TO LISTEN to the World According to Cosmos  breaker audio  Google podcasts  radio public Spotify Korea Radio public c: https://radiopublic.com/the-world-according-to-cosmos-6va7D1 on PocketCasts: https://pca.st/rt1f4r4r Visit to Gangwha Ginseng Market We recently moved to Gimpo.  One of the joys of living here is that we are a close drive to Gangwha island, which…

  • Famous Deaths 2000-2022

    Famous Deaths 2000-2022 We have lost so many great artists lately Stuart Woods RIP https://people.com › celebrity › celebrities-whove-died-in-2022 Celebrities Who Died in 2022 – PEOPLE.com Jan 6, 2022Pete Marovich For The Washington Post via Getty Images. McGee, a decorated military pilot and Tuskegee Airman, died at 102. On Jan. 16, McGee died in his sleep, a…

  • Stuart Woods RIP

    Stuart Woods RIP Guilty Pleasures – the Novels of Stuart Woods https://www.stuartwoods.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Woods One of my favorite writers is Stuart Woods. Boy, can the dude pump them out!  In the last count, he has written over 80 books almost all of the best sellers and he has been pumping out one to two a year…

  • Reading G Keith Chesterton

    Reading G Keith Chesterton GK Chesterton Reading the Classics George Elliot Novels Cosmos’s Reading List 2021 1001 Books to Read Before You Die List As some of you might know, I am reading the classics these days.  I picked a three-volume series called  “50 Books You Must Read Before You Die” (free Kindle classic collection…

  • introducing my buddy, Ace

    My friend from Berkeley always has something fun to say.  Check it out. My Father Always Said He Was Going to Live to Be 100″ and other blogs. . . My latest blatherings, in a handy, user-friendly internet format known as blogs. https://acebackwordsphotos.wordpress.com/

  • Personal Tech Peeves

    Personal Tech Peeves There are a lot of things that piss me off.  Sort of comes with the territory. as you get older you become more of a curmudgeon than when you wore a younger man’s clothes. These are some of my pet peeves about the tech industry. I will send them my thoughts, but…

  • Moving K Style

    Moving K Style           One of the joys of living overseas is to see how other countries do things differently than in your home country. Sometimes they do it better, other times it is just different.  We recently moved and so we’re able to observe moving K style. I must have…

  • update APO for Retirees

    Re: APO for Retirees Overseas update: The pending elimination of APO privileges overseas for military retirees and their family members is on hold pending further review.  the pressure campaign must have worked. “We have just received word that non-SOFA retirees and widows losing their APO boxes directive has been temporarily rescinded. They are going to…

  • Cosmos’s List of Where to Submit

    Cosmos Guide to Where to Submit For my writer friends who are just getting started submitting works to literary journals, here are my suggestions and advice based on my four years of submitting to literary magazines and being published in over 150 places so far. My advice for anyone starting on the submission game is…

  • Julia’s American Diner Gimpo

    Review Julia’s American style Diner ARA canal, Gimpo near Jaangi station, gold line                           ****** Julia’s American-style diner near the ARA canal, in Gimpo, near the Jaangi station on the Gold Line advertises itself as an American-style family diner.  And that is just…

  • Letter to GImpo Golden Waterway Director

    Letter to GImpo Golden Waterway Director I recently moved to the Hyundai Hometown apartments in Janggi dong and have been enjoying daily walks along the ARA golden water canal.     Overall, I am very impressed.  It is a great recreational asset for Gimpo County. I do have a few suggestions for improvements. Extend it…

  • Re: APO for Retirees Overseas

    Re: APO for Retirees Overseas Letter to Ted Cruz Regarding Guns Folks, I sent the following letters to my Florida senators, the President, Vice President, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the Director of Tricare to ask them to reverse two policies that negatively affect my life overseas as a retiree.  We are about to lose…

  • Reflections on Father’s Day

    Reflections on Father’s Day Like many men, I had a difficult relationship with my father. Mostly because we had such different personalities. I admired him a lot, and as I get older, I become more like him. Part of the process of getting older, I suppose. He was an accomplished man. Grew up in Yakima…

  • Fake Sushi

    Fake Sushi Load more ATTACHMENT DETAILS jalagi-sashimi-For June 18, International Sushi Day. In this modern era Of rampant fakery With fake things everywhere. It is hard to know When something is real Or is fake.     About a year ago A scientific study Confirmed what many Sushi lovers have long felt. That half of…

  • 81 words Anthology World Record

    81 words Anthology World Record Most contributing authors published in a Flash Fiction Anthology: world record set by 1000 Authors Jun 15, 2022 81 World Stories Published   Note: I am so pleased to have been included in this project. They published my story,  “Dreams Do Come True ” as author 942 on page 478…

  • Where to Find Cosmos’s Work on the Web updates

    Where to Find Cosmos’s Work on the Web updates Podcast update starting Podcasts Since 2016, I have been writing and posting my writing on various web pages, and since 2020 I have also podcasting.  Here is a list of sites, where  you can find my work.  Many of these entries are duplicates. as I tend…