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Out 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.

It Wasn’t For Myself

“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

Nineteen Degrees

It is two days before Thanksgiving and snow is everywhere. Commute times doubled and tripled last night, but I was one of the lucky who headed home before snow started sticking and city busses began sliding down hills despite chains…  <<read more>>

~ August 2011 Issue of The Battered Suitcase, Vagabondage Press

First and Last Day Out of the Asylum

…I pass DO NOT ENTER in flashing neon, in red letters on white-painted metal too, and as “Mrs. Robinson” fades, I buckle my seatbelt and stomp on the gas because there are people on this overcast Sunday freeway who must be shown how to live…   <<read more>>

~ September 2011 Issue of Eclectic Flash

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Severance

The color’s all the rage, you said. I hadn’t believed you. I couldn’t. Not carpet the color of the mashed garden peas you fed to Sheila one tiny spoonful at a time…   <<read more>>

~ September 2011 Issue of Eclectic Flash

look for new Flash, Micro Fiction and Poetry to show up online, in print and in some other not-so-normal places over the next few months

The Safety Pin Review

find it online

hear it on Centerpiece, WECI 91.5fm

see it “attached (via safety pins) to…operatives—a collective network of punks, thieves and anarchists—who wear it everywhere they go for a week

Eclectic Flash

The Battered Suitcase, Vagabondage Press

Frightmares Flash Fiction Anthology, Dark Moon Books 

Microstory A Week 

Grey Sparrow Journal

Six Minute Magazine

Short Stories, Vol. I, eChook Digital Publishing

Gargoyle Magazine

and others

watch Dustin Grella’s animation of “View from a ’77 Chevy Scottsdale,” which appears in Hint Fiction from W. W. Norton & Company,  by clicking play on the video above or at the Animation Hotline

Grella posts animations inspired by messages left in his voicemail

leave him a message and maybe he’ll animate it: 212-683-2490 or Skype at animationhotline

authors of the eChook Digital Publishing Short Stories, Vol. 1 announced:

Nick Boreham, Mark Budman, Claude Clayton Smith, Mindy Hardwick, Natalie McNabb, Christine Pakkala, Dave Schofield, Megan Smith-Harris and Townsend Walker

sign up at eChook Digital Publishing to receive pre-publication excerpts about this and other upcoming short story collections and ebooks for iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Android and Nook Color

Columbia Art League of Missouri will hold an art show inspired by the stories of Hint Fiction (in which “View from a ’77 Chevy Scottsdale” appears)
 
show: August 23 through October 1, 2011
         
opening reception: September 1, 2011
     
more details <<here>>