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  • New Work Accepted, Thanks for these gray hairs

    New Work Accepted, Thanks for these gray hairs

    I submitted to Redrosethorns back in bleak February—who am I kidding, they’ve all been bleak lately. Anyway, I submitted a small snippet for a themed submission call around aging. Even though I don’t feel old, nor am I old old, stuff has come up, stuff I can no longer ignore. Such as, How do I… Read more

  • HOOT

    HOOT

    I’ve had a few less acceptances this year . . . after a record-setting acceptances last year. In fact, I was growing despondent—there’s always an emotional high, a release of adrenaline when I do receive notice of an acceptance. Through Submittable I saw that HOOT had taken a short-short for their postcard review. These are… Read more

  • New work out now-Zen Garden

    New work out now-Zen Garden

    New work out now-Zen Garden, go to Rock and a Hard Place I started with a true incident: the basement at the townhouse I first lived in in Okemos always smelled like weed. I suspected the neighbors of hotboxing. My laundry left to dry down there ended up smelling like skunk. The odor wafted up to… Read more

  • Year of the Cicadas

    Year of the Cicadas

    Cicadas make an appearance (every 17 years) in my novel CLOUD OF WITNESSES. At the end of the novel with several other apocalyptic events swirling around my young protagonist, Roland fetches his bicycle (late to school again) from under the trailer and finds it covered in cicadas.  I pulled my bike out of the rack in… Read more

  • The Machine Has No Clothes, a reprint

    The Machine Has No Clothes, a reprint

    The Machine Has No Clothes has been reprinted (again) by Coin-Operated, a zine project out of Scotland. About Coin-Operated: Coin-Operated Press CIC is an artist-led social enterprise run by Chloe Henderson. We are based in Scotland, where we facilitate creative workshops, host zine fairs, manage the DJCAD Zine Library, create educational zine content, and produce, publish,… Read more

  • New Work Accepted

    New Work Accepted

    2024 is off to a fruitful start—not so much this writer. Pure of Heart came out in February in Fathom. A very sweet short story (14 min. read) about a simple girl, in terms applied from the past: a servant, who become ingrained into a family of middle-class means and how that relationship touches every… Read more

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