Christopher Allen asked me to contribute something to Metazen, a journal I’ve long admired. I haven’t been writing much flash lately, working on a much longer story, so it was fun to write a microfiction. You can read it in 40 seconds here: As Outside the Clouds Made Fists. Thanks, Chris and thanks Metazen for
Read this in Rookie Magazine and it brought me so much joy: Etgar Keret’s Ten Rules for Writers. As I work on revisions of my short story, a story I feel like I’ve been working on forever, I found #9 and #10 especially resonant: 9. Let people who like what you write encourage you. And
My talented friend, Berit Ellingsen, told me that today was Buzz Aldrin’s 83rd birthday, and that this reminded her of my microfiction, “Space Man” which was originally published by Keyhole magazine. Here is the link to the story, now on Fictionaut: Space Man. Happy birthday, Mr. Aldrin!
Huge thanks to my friend, Susan Tepper, for tagging me on this…is the word “meme”?…for writers. You can read her response to it on Jules Archer’s blog, Jules Just Write. Susan’s answers are fascinating and so is her book, FROM THE UMBERPLATZEN, and Jules’ blog is the coolest. Aaaanyway, the questions for this seem better
Many thanks to the lovely Meg Tuite for interviewing me and featuring two of my flashes at Connotation Press. “I just read “Wild Life,” again and am mesmerized by the movement of your characters, dialogue, stories. They have their own pulse. I find something buried deeper with each reading. I’ve been sharing “Petunias” with my
Night at The Reservoir on Airline Drive My brother’s friend, Del, said, hey little girl, wanna Tootsie Roll? I asked him if there was anything he could do to make my Slurpee taste better and he poured a healthy dose of vodka in. That summer it was Vodka Slurpees, Vodka Mountain Dews, Vodka Lemonades. Dad
I’ve always, always, always wanted to see Vermont in the Fall, so I’m hugely excited to be a part in the Brattleboro Literary Festival this weekend with Sarah Rose Etter, Randall Brown, Steve Almond and Jacob White. Here’s more info in case you find yourself in Brattleboro this weekend: Flashing Lights
“Submit your best prose manuscript. We’re looking for novels, novellas, memoirs, lyric essays, lyric novels, short story collections, flash fiction or prose poetry collections, and hybrid manuscripts that include prose writing. The deadline to enter is 11:59 PM EST, June 30, 2012.” The Lit Pub is a great new indie publisher that produces beautiful books.
The lovely and smart Gay Degani asks me some fascinating questions at Flash Fiction Chronicles: Gay Degani: Your stories are clear-eyed and lyrical with characters that provoke curiosity and concern. It’s easy to make a connection to them, their humanity, their strength, and their frailty. But there’s something else, something I find most intriguing about
It was like the time we broke icicles dripping from the low eaves and brandished them like swords, slashing and sparkling, and you cut my cheek and dropped your weapon. Or the time we got up early and hiked until we came to a cliff and looked down into the valley covered in dew and