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Category: creative writing

  • Ten More Literary Magazines for the Best Flash Fiction

    Originally posted on michaelalexanderchaney: The flash markets on this list include the best around. They’re not impossible to break into. Not as much as say, Willow Springs, whose editor informed us recently here on this blog that only one out of a thousand pieces gets picked for publication from the slush pile. One out of…

  • an old poem, revised

    The universal donor develops a taste for blood What if I closed my eyes right now, accelerated hard Just waited for the impact, the pain, the wailing sirens “She lost control on the Norwood Lateral,” they’d say. “Nearly bled to death.” Or what if I lost control, of myself, In produce between the melons and…

  • The Cloud is up at Black Denim Lit!

    So excited–my newest sci-fi short story, The Cloud, was selected for inclusion in the June issue of Black Denim Lit. Read it and let me know what you think! Thanks to my workshop and Avery for reading early drafts; your comments were so helpful. http://www.bdlit.com/the-cloud.html

  • Indiana University Writer’s Conference, June 2014

    I’m just back from an amazing week in Bloomington, Indiana, where I attended the IU Writer’s Conference—for anyone considering this conference in the future, I’d highly recommend it. Come well-rested—you’ll be too inspired to sleep much. Teachers included the amazing Jim Elledge, who just won a Lambda award for creative non-fiction; Christine Sneed, inspiring master…

  • The Jester

    A new sci-fi story of mine is now up at Story Shack. Written last spring, it sprang from the same swirling well of techno-hope and techno-fear that the recent movie “her” bubbled up in. Not that this little bit of a story is in that class, at all, but I always think it’s interesting to…