My new story “In Translation” has been published by New Pop Lit, one of the more beautiful literary sites I’ve bumped into recently. New Pop Lit maintains an active Twitter that I follow, with tastes that pulled me in tweet by tweet: praise of John Steinbeck (An obsession of mine, age 16-25), Herman Wouk (Inherited […]
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“Eddie the Simp Holds Court” at Literary Garage
My story “Eddie the Simp Holds Court” has been published over at Literary Garage. This story has had a long journey: it was the first short piece I wrote after returning my focus to fiction, but it has changed a lot from the masterpiece I thought I had created when I began submitting it to […]
“Spin Cycle” at The Rye Whiskey Review
I recently made my second appearance over at The Rye Whiskey Review, aka “the Ezine dedicated to all things barroom.” Rye Whiskey is a very active site that typically publishes one to two dozen pieces per month, and they’ve been at it since 2018. It’s mostly bar/booze-themed poems, but also the occasional short story pops […]
“Spin Cycle” at Lowlife Lit Press
I wrote this story that I really liked; I knew it was good writing, and I found it funny. I also knew it was loaded with filthy language, and comments on its first rejection warned me, women won’t like this story. I kind of thought, well, yeah, they definitely won’t like these characters, because the […]
