Tag: florida
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The Forge: Things You Lose
“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…
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Louisiana Literature: We Will Find Each Other Again
“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…
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BULL #13 – for the longjohns: Spiral
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…
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Gutter Magazine: The Almost
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…
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Up the Staircase Quarterly: The tomatoes had gone
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…
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Turn and Work: I Like Being Far Away
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…
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“Spiral” and “Ma’Donna” among 20 works of memorable short fiction – Turn & Work 2025 Shortlist Favourites
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.”…
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“In Another Life” nominated for Best Microfiction 2026
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…
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“Once, We Were Under the Sea” nominated for Pushcart Prize
“Once, We Were Under the Sea,” a prose poem inspired by hunting for shark teeth in rural central Florida, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by my publisher, Whale Road Review. Read the piece here. Or, read it here. Once, We Were Under the Sea You don’t have to dig. The teeth have eaten…
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Inkd Publications: Cthulhu Dreams: That Sinking Feeling
Cthulhu Dreams: A short story anthology of horror influenced by or reflective of Lovecraftian themes. For sale at Barnes and Noble online. My contribution, “That Sinking Feeling,” is a quasi-memoir of the time I lived in a commercial loft space built by family members. The place was horrific, an abandoned call center, and we did…
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