The Empty World beneath Her Hand

I’ve some happy news to report on the publishing front: my story “The Empty World beneath Her Hand” has been published in the 18th issue of Stonecoast Review. Having this story appear in Stonecoast Review brings it full circle: the opening scene in the story was inspired by a bit of daydreaming out the window of The Stone House during a class in the Winter 2009 residency at Stonecoast MFA, then I workshopped the story initially titled “A Winter Story” based on that inspiration in the Winter 2010 residency, then it was the thesis story–with its current title–I read for my senior reading before graduation (alas, in Summer rather than Winter), and now it’s been published in Winter. I’m delighted!

If you’d like to read “The Empty World beneath Her Hand”—and help support independent and inclusive publishing—you can purchase a copy of Stonecoast Review at Kelly’s Books To Go.

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The Unreal World Too Strangely Near

See the Elephant, issue 4 (2018)Yes, it’s certainly been a minute since I posted (ETA: almost three years to the day), so I hope you’ll forgive the long lapse in posting as well as my extreme tardiness in posting this news: my story “The Unreal World Too Strangely Near” appears in Issue Four of See the Elephant! The issue was published in October 2018, which is almost 21 years after I wrote the first draft in August-September 1997.

Twenty-one years from first draft to publication–just goes to show that persistence is perhaps the most important attribute a writer can have.

In my files, I have the first note I ever wrote about this story, which is a complete spoiler so you’ll need to highlight it to read it: Man wakes up to find spots on his body—spots develop into a map of another world.

If you’d like to read “The Unreal World Too Strangely Near,” you can purchase the fourth issue of See the Elephant directly from the publisher Metaphysical Circus Press, or from Weightless Books or Amazon.

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Magpie Monthly — March 2016

Magpie by Henrik Gronvold, ca 1890

Magpie by Henrik Grönvold, ca 1890

Spring has sprung, or has it? I am sneaking in like spring this year, dropping a mini March Magpie Monthly in your nest with unexpected stealth.

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Magpie Monthly — February 2016

magpie 2016-02-29Happy Leap Year! I nerded out today by learning that leap years are also called intercalary years or bissextile years. Did I know that before? Possibly, but let’s move on and synchronize our solar calendars for this month’s motley collection of links and things.


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Magpie Monthly — January 2016

Photo by Mats Kangur

Photo by Mats Kangur

“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.” ~Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary

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