The languished cashier takes your money and hands your food with a limp grasp.

My 2023 publications wrapped

It’s been a year of fewer publications, but much more time spent on manuscripts and revising older stuff. See below for some good little prose that’s out now and even forthcoming. I’ll end the year with a standalone excerpt from the sequel to The Light to Never Be Snuffed. You won’t want to miss that. Thanks for reading, as always.

Literary Journals

Maudlin House: “Welcome to McDespair” (short story)

Rejection Letters: “Punks Like Us” (short story/novel excerpt)

Meow Meow Pow Pow: “Dare to Change” (flash non-fiction)

Hearth & Coffin: “Kickball” (flash non-fiction)

Back Patio Press: “Name 3 Songs” (flash fiction; forthcoming)

Presses

Frequent & Vigorous Chapbooks: Behold, Infinite Fire (forthcoming)

Top 5 of BD/WD

• “The Power of Thunderstorms” (poem)

• “To Love a Cat” (memoir)

• “Pain and Other Things that Bounce” (flash non-fiction)

• “The Power of Metal” (personal essay)

• “The Venus Flytrap Revisited” (short story)