Author: kellirule

  • Guest Contributor to The Shortlist at Turn and Work

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    Arts and media and all things new and cool website Turn and Work gave me the keys to The Shortlist this week. I curated a small selection of unforgettable new short fiction, all free to read online, around a loose theme: “works that manage to be both dreamlike while also smacking you in the face…

  • The Forge: Things You Lose

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    “It made sense why no one called them Cosby sweaters anymore. Who wants to embody the style of an iconic rapist? Likewise, they are aviators, not Unabomber glasses, they are white tanks not wife beaters. Signifiers evolve, the past is rebranded. I knew all this and I thought it was good and still I fucked…

  • Louisiana Literature: We Will Find Each Other Again

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    “Being from a place could make a person reckless.” Fleeing an abusive relationship, Ellie Camphor navigates exhaustion and loneliness while traveling through rural Florida. Drifting between gas stations, parks, and rest stops, she fights to cling to fragments of self in a world that’s becoming increasingly surreal. We Will Find Each Other Again is A…

  • Star*Line: Troy Sunk in Violet

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    Pick up Star*Line 49.2, home planet to my poem “Troy Sunk in Violet,” an homage to Yeats, Hole, Space and Sadness. Founded in the year of my birth (1978), Star*Line is the official publication of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.  It is a literary venue for speculative (including science-fiction, fantasy, and horror) poets and…

  • BULL #13 – for the longjohns: Spiral

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    BULL published one of my favorite works, Spiral, one I thought would be unpublishable, due to the many many instances of colorful descriptions of the penis of an old man, including the line “arched like Gonzo’s nose over my bulbous balls.” Goddamn was that story fun to write. BULL is one of the most fearless…

  • Gutter Magazine: The Almost

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    Read “The Almost” in the latest issue of Gutter, Scotland’s leading literary magazine. From the issue’s editorial: “A literary truth: reading gifts us new ways to write, and speak, and read, and live. To engage with the written work of others is to be changed by something intangible but essential: intertextuality. The space between texts…

  • Up the Staircase Quarterly: The tomatoes had gone

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    Thank you to Up the Staircase Quarterly for publishing “The tomatoes had gone” in their Winter Issue (#72) alongside the illustration “Rooster of Peace” by Ukrainian artist Josephine Florens (below. ) The tomatoes had gone all fallen, puckered,slick lipstick post-ripe redand I gather them anyway in my green plastic tote. Blue rubber bootson wet pine…

  • Turn and Work: I Like Being Far Away

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    I wrapped myself in a towel and got in the bed between the comforter and the topsheet. He looked over at me from his side of the bed. “My sister worked at a motel, I don’t think they usually wash these things,” he said, lifting up a corner of the comforter, sniffing it and saying…

  • “Spiral” and “Ma’Donna” among 20 works of memorable short fiction – Turn & Work 2025 Shortlist Favourites

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    Thank you to media review blog Turn & Work for including two of my short stories among 20 featured in their 2025 Shortlist Favourites list. From the blog: “These are the 20 most memorable stories I linked to at other sites – some of the best short fiction and creative nonfiction I read this year.”…

  • “In Another Life” nominated for Best Microfiction 2026

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    Thank you to Ink In Thirds literary magazine for nominating “In Another Life,” a piece of surreal short prose, for inclusion in the Best Microfiction 2026 anthology. Judges this year are Meg Pokrass, Gary Fincke, and Diane Seuss. “In Another Life” was published in Volume 6, Issue 1 of Ink In Thirds and is available…