Category: what’s new

  • Green Hills Literary Lantern: Ma’Donna

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    The Harborside Mobil Stop-n-Go shines its beacon, its big old sign with all the gas prices, the ones that go back and forth a few cents every day for reasons I’ll never know, way up high for the boats to see. After closing, all the lights in and around the store go out except for…

  • BULL: Spiral

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    She spits through lips painted green. She means disrespect but I see DNA. In spit is a stamp that can clone or convict you. I suppose that an artist’s work, to its maker, does both. I can understand the desire for distance.… “Spiral” – a story about bodies, minds, and masks. About devotion and disillusionment.…

  • Ink In Thirds: In Another Life

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    In Another Life: A study of mania and its inevitable crash. And also, orange juice. Originally published in the Spring/Summer issue of Ink in Thirds. In Another Life  James lies on the motel bed. Outside, a tinsel rain begins to fall.  He grabs a smoke from the nightstand, lights it, takes a soul-healing drag and closes…

  • BULL: Spiral

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    Spiral: A young art school chick and an aging male nude art model’s friendship snaps and irreparably unwinds. Did they ever really know each other at all? Spoiler alert: NOPE! To be published later this year in BULL. Painting above from the Gnome Alone series, by me.

  • Whale Road Review: Once, We Were Under the Sea

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    Once, We Were Under the Sea, an ode to prehistoric Florida, can be found in the Spring 2025 edition of the prestigious Whale Road Review. The edition in full is inspiringly curated – jewel-like and intoxicating. I recommend reading each piece in order with a warm cup of honeyed tea by your side. Bonus points…

  • Luna Station Quarterly: To Bethany, With Teeth.

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    To Bethany, with Teeth: A tale of abuse and retribution set in a world where witchcraft is a science, where hexes and spells are available to anyone willing to expend a little patience and effort. I am really struggling with a synopsis for this one. I’ll just post an excerpt and tell you that you…

  • The Avenue Journal: The Water Anthology: Hot

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    It was as hot as all the things people like to say things could be as hot as: Hell. Balls. Fuck. Shit. Biscuits. I took off my t-shirt, dipped it in the water and tied it around my head. I was fine with doing so because I was wearing one of my colorful bras and anyone…

  • Magazine1: Saw Palm

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    Find my poem Saw Palm, a portrait of a brutal, quintessential Florida landscape, in the Winter 2025 edition of Sarasota, Florida’s Bookstore1’s publication, Magazine1. Kind of cool to be featured in a magazine in my hometown. An excerpt: Ever seen a sea of saw palm? Eon-deep black hole dark-as-nightgreen, scissor wrong-side-up double-UsWWWWWWWWWWWWWavingat you.Looking like a…

  • elsewhere magazine: The Ghost

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    The Ghost: a historic home’s long-dead owner is not pleased with the renovations. Published December 2024 by elsewhere magazine. This little prose poem was inspired by the buyers of my beloved purple home in Washington State, who promptly painted the interiors “millennial gray” and the outside a drab sage green, but really, it goes out…

  • Stuff in the queue.

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    Waiting for these pieces to show their ugly faces in early 2025: Magazine1: Saw Palm, a poem about a field of Saw Palmetto and the creatures that lurk within, featuring experimental imagery and vernacular that only a Sarasota-based magazine could understand. Illustrated Worlds Magazine: A reprint of The Scavenger. Or, technically, a print? The Scavenger…