The Avenue Journal: Water Edition: Hot

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.” – Sun Tzu

Hot: Displaced. Discredited. Discarded. What happens when everything a girl has worked for is stolen? What happens when she’s taken all she can take?

Hot, a queer revenge fantasy set on the West Central Florida island of Cayo Costa one year after 2004’s devastating Hurricane Charley, is based on true events which, when you read it, you will struggle to believe.

Thanks to The Avenue Journal for selecting this story from among hundreds of submissions to their upcoming Water edition.

The Avenue is “a print, Mid-Atlantic-based literary journal open to all things literary. We are committed to the quirky, the dark, the artistic, the tortured, the beautiful, the disenfranchised.” In short, everything to which I aspire. I am very honored.

The Water edition will release sometime next year. I am told there will be a reading event in Baltimore then, too, which I intend to attend.

Photo above: the actual home stolen from the fictionalized protagonist – actually there were three homes stolen, but that would have been too crazy to write about.