I sit under the elm tree in our front yard with a jar of moths in my lap. I have forgotten to punch holes in the lid like my father told me to and now the moths are dead. I want to float away, but the sky feels like a giant’s hand, pushing me down. I open the jar and eat the moths. One by one.
I’m very happy that my story, “A Room With Many Small Beds” is featured in Issue 5 of Threadcount. It is the first story of my upcoming collection, from Unknown Press, RIFT, co-authored with the great Robert Vaughan. From their “about” page:
Threadcount is a biannual online literary journal dedicated to hybrid forms, work that challenges genre boundaries and resists classifiable form, that experiments with texture and convention, that (like fabric) packs a lot in a limited space.
“I like the box on the page, the box made out of ink and alphabet, the way it sits there and contains what’s inside it. What’s inside it, though, doesn’t have to be so neat and tidy and can be a thing that is hard to say exactly what it is.”
– Peter Markus, author of We Make Mud
The Fall issue includes hybrid work from: Morris Collins, Jennifer A. Howard, Stevie Edwards, Natasha Naayem, Ben Loory, Sarah Tourjee, JoAnna Novak, Brad Modlin, and Stephanie Young. You can read the whole issue HERE and my story, “A Room With Many Small Beds” HERE.
You may read more about RIFT here at our page at Unknown Press
Incredible writing in this unique story.
Paul, thank you so much! Hope all’s well with you…