dispatches from the dregs of Florida.
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“I watched a wake of turkey vultures slurp up bits of cow…” The Scavenger, a rural Florida gothic serial killer tale, first dramatized by Creepy Podcast and later picked up by Illustrated Worlds Magazine – is reprinted below. (First, though, this photo…taken from…
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Green Hills Literary Lantern: Ma’Donna
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…
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BULL: Spiral
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…
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To Bethany, with teeth.(Reprinted here, read in full.)
To Bethany, with teeth. debuted in Luna Station Quarterly earlier this Spring. I am reprinting it here today in full. An odd little morality tale featuring witchcraft gone wrong…gone right. (Painting above, Buried in the Sand, by me.) To Bethany,…
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Ink In Thirds: In Another Life
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. …
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BULL: Spiral
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…
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Whale Road Review: Once, We Were Under the Sea
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…
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The Avenue Journal: The Water Anthology: Hot
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…
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Magazine1: Saw Palm
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…
Kelli Dianne Rule: Author 