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“Sole Proprietor” in the new issue of The Sea Letter
The Sea Letter’s new print issue is available for purchase, and it includes my (long) short story “Sole Proprietor.” An excerpt:If she’d had the good fortune to be born three hundred years earlier, Sally O’Brien would have inherited a lucrative profession. Back then, the landed gentry types were willing to pay good money for the […]
HCE Review publishes “Seaweed and Salt”
I’m published in an Irish literary magazine for the first time. My short story “Seaweed and Salt” is in the new issue of HCE Review. An excerpt:She never had to wonder when the lady had been in the house. The trail of salt always told her. Siobhan came in from the garden with two […]
“Blood ” in Ghost Parachute
My short story “Blood,” about how much it would stink to have stigmata, is out today in the new issue of Ghost Parachute. An excerpt:The bleeding still drove him crazy. Every time. As usual, it had started in the night, and Frederick woke up to the sticky feeling of blood in his bedsheets. He had […]
“The Machine” anthologized in Alcyone
My story “The Machine” appeared two years ago in Chicago Literati, and is now anthologized in Issue II of Alcyone, both in Kindle form and in paperback. An excerpt: The time machine really had seemed like a good idea. Dr. Wyatt had spent the better part of his long career working on the technology and […]
Interview with Joseph Rosenbloom for Foreword Reviews
I’ve reviewed literally hundreds of books for Foreword Reviews, which now also features interviews with authors. Hopefully, I’ll get to be one of those authors when the next project comes out, but in the meantime, here’s an interview I did with Joseph Rosenbloom about his excellent book “Redemption,” about the last days of Martin Luther […]
“Sunshine” in O:JA&L
Published the second of the 100-word flash stories I wrote around the holidays. “Sunshine” is now in the new issue of Open: Journal Arts & Letters. An excerpt: “I’ll play any song you want,” the busker promised, if only they’d put five dollars in her case.
Anderson’s Bookstore Children’s Author Breakfast #4
On February 24, I was honored to make my fourth straight appearance as a featured author at the Anderson’s Bookstore Children’s Author Breakfast in suburban Woodridge, meeting many librarians and teachers throughout Illinois. It’s always a great event with a lot of great local authors and fascinating keynote speakers.
