out in Six Minute Magazine, Winter 2012 edition
inspired by a guy and his dog near some Oregon dunes, as was “View from a ’77 Chevy Scottsdale” (in Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, W. W. Norton and Company)
Six Minute Magazine is ”a print and electronic magazine…[containing] quality fiction that can be read in under six minutes”
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Say it will be so…
Despite slashes to arts funding and a rapidly changing publishing industry, an email this morning relit my hope for fiction writers. According to American Short Fiction:
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:13:19 -0500
To: me
From: them
Subject: Writers are the next rock gods
…Maybe you’re OK with a world where there’s a widening disconnection from art and people feel powerless to stop that. We’re not. We don’t want to talk about whether fiction is dying, we want to show you how deeply it’s thriving…
Sincerely,
The Editors
I believe! And, I want to shout it to the world, as you can see. I promise to work on the outfit before I hit a stage anywhere though. Until then, pay American Short Fiction a visit. They really are pretty awesome.
Three cheers for the future rock gods–writers!
~ N
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“Author Insides” Interview
read the interview
“I…have probably saved a ridiculous amount on therapy because I write. It’s very freeing—I can floor it the wrong way on the freeway, say good riddance to people I’d like to, or cut a finger off, and it’s all harmless. As well, though, I have found compassion for others I might not have understood if I hadn’t examined a character as deeply as you must to be able to slip into their skin.” ~ N on the Vagabondage Press Blog
read “Nineteen Degrees” – a story about what it was like to have held a hummingbird
“…I close the towel around her, cupping her in my hands. She is so light, like a penny, and each time she stirs it is so faint, like moth wings…”
~ published in the August 2011 Issue of The Battered Suitcase from Vagabondage Press and an honoree in the eChook Digital Publishing 2011 ‘Tis the Season Competition
watch for two poems in Love Notes from Vagabondage Press, out just in time for Valentine’s Day
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A Class of ’08 Alumna on 7-1-11
has gone live with Safety Pin Review
see it attached to the back of a Harvard student who wears it everywhere he goes for a week
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In the beginning, The Arachnid spun its web from the void, in the deep darkness that was upon the face of the heavens, and the winds moved upon its web.
And the winds brought forth the first fly to The Arachnid’s web, causing the fly to become ensnared.
And The Arachnid felt the fly’s movement upon the face of its web and was drawn to the fly.
And The Arachnid crept along its web, descended upon the fly and called what it found there Life… <<read more>>
~ Frightmares: A Fistful of Flash Fiction Horror, Dark Moon Books
available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other retailers
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August limps past the Ferris wheel, a cotton candy wisp stuck to her cheek. She stops, licks her dusty lips with a snow cone-blue tongue while deciding how to spend her sister Summer’s last dollar bill… <<read more>>
~ Microfiction Spotlight: November 9th through 15th, 2011, Microstory A Week
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The Last Two Minutes of the Game
“Do the last two minutes matter?” you ask, turn off the game. We all wrestle you for the remote. Later, in your rusted Bug, with red and yellow gumballs spilled and rolling around the floorboards, I stick my hand out the window into the rain to push your broken wipers
back
and
forth,
back
and
forth.
<<read more>>
~ Fall 2011 Issue of Grey Sparrow Literary Journal
in 2011, Grey Sparrow was named the Best New Literary Journal of the Year by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals
also in the Fall Issue: poetry by Kay Ryan, 16th Poet Laureate of the United States and recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship
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a story about a home invasion debacle involving a Balisong knife, a bottle of Crown, an Old English sheepdog, and one man’s very tall tale
Their coffee was cold and the room hot, but they hunkered over their cups nevertheless. Mickey scanned the bodies, tables and chairs pressed upon one another by the four brick walls. A brunette in the corner placed her cup on a saucer, looked up from her paper. She lifted her chin at Mickey, trapped his gaze. Mickey looked away and whispered to Christophe, “The details?”…Mickey looked back at the brunette. She had a ring. That’d be a challenge. But, they were feistier with rings on their fingers and never followed you around afterwards… read more>>
~ November 2011 Issue of Hobo Pancakes: A Humor Journal
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just in time for Halloween: a twisted little tale about a woman and her cat, a man with a fish, two dogs, and love within an unstable mind
I have done one noble thing in my life, but it wasn’t for myself–it was for the woman I love. And, what wouldn’t one do for love? I guess it was for her cat, too… <<read more>>
~ Featured Friday Fiction on October 21, 2011, Black Heart Magazine
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