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Work Accepted, New Work Out
In writing news I’ve had a micro piece accepted. A Study in Grief was taken by Wild Willow Magazine (where the word takes root), formally The Minison Project. It is considered a fledgling publication by Duotrope, the portal I mostly use to submit and discover publications and calls for submissions. Grief. It something I’ve been… Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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

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