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 flash fiction classes. You have many admirers in Santa Fe as well as everywhere else on the map. I’m a huge fan. I am looking forward to your new collection coming out through The Lit Pub.
Your two exceptional stories, “Neil Figgens,” and “A Pirate or a Cowboy,” are both intimate moments in very different ways between two characters.
“Neil Figgens” had a touch of Flannery O’Connor in it. I’m remembering her story, “Revelation,” set in a doctor’s office. But more than just the setting, it’s the intriguing exchange between the two main characters, Neil and Beth. He’s the older of the two, but she is direct and keeps at him even when he goes inside himself from time to time.”
Read the rest of the interview and the stories here
I was so honored to have you as our first featured fiction writer for 2013 up at Connotation Press. I know you’re not on FB, but you have many fans who were able to read your work that we posted up there! Please let me know when your new collection is out! I’m a HUGE fan! Thank you so much, Kathy, for sending CP some of your pure brilliance!
Thank you for having me, Meg! I’m a fan of Connotation Press and of you, too!