Tag: romance

  • The Almost: Gutter Magazine

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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…

  • Fictive Dream: The Almost

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    The Almost: a school bus driver passes the early morning hours in rural Florida reading her favorite romance novel while idling in her bus before the kids show up. As the sensual language of the book, “Heather’s Rake,” provides her with an escape from the mundane, she finds comfort in the tension and anticipation of…

  • To Bethany, with teeth.(Reprinted here, read in full.)

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    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, with teeth. Michael dunks the beaver carcass into a bright blue drum of Strip-All. He…

  • 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.