Soap and Water

Thank you to Michael Hurley and the ninth letter team for including my short fiction in the summer online issue. The theme was invisibility. Here’s the opening from the editorial note:

With this theme, we asked our writers to show us what we cannot see, from the hidden lines that connect us to the secret walls that keep us separate. We asked our writers to find the ghosts that haunt the edges, and to capture them before they disappear. We asked not just to see, but to be made to believe. And so they did. And so, we do.

What then lies beneath, behind, below? 

“Soap and Water” addresses invisibility from a service perspective.

Reclamation

Thank you to fiction editor Zoë Meager, publisher Anna Scaife, and the entire takahē team for including “Reclamation” in issue 107.

Cover art by Roy Good, Scott Lawrie Gallery, Awkland

And there’s a launch, June 15 at 7 PM NZST (New Zealand Standard Time)! Click the image above which will take you to the magazine twitter page; the event link is in the bio.

Hidden Truths of Reupholstering

Thank you to everyone at phoebe journal for including my short fiction “Hidden Truths of Reupholstering” in this latest issue. Thanks especially to fiction editors Katy Mullins and Bareerah Ghani for selecting it.

cover art by Bãnbishn

The issue is gorgeous, with two sections of art within. Keep checking phoebe’s website as they post issues online.

Writing While Biking

The gorgeous contributor copies of Blue Earth Review arrived, and wow, this is a beautiful issue with beautiful work. I’m honored to have my flash creative nonfiction “Writing While Biking” included. Thanks to Aarron Sholar for selecting this piece, and to Pritika Pradhan and Jack Harris, managing editors. The cover artwork, below, is Rachel Coyne’s “Vision of Snakes in the Garden.”

Water and Land

Thank you to Alisha Jeddeloh for selecting “Water and Land” for Brink No. 4, Certainty. With thanks, also, to Nina Lohman and the Brink editorial team for putting together a beautiful issue.

On the jacket flap, “the edge or margin of a steep place or of land bordering water; any extreme edge; a crucial or critical point, especially of a situation or state beyond which success or catastrophe occurs.”

And on their website: “Brink is an in-print literary journal dedicated to publishing hybrid, cross-genre work of both emerging and established creatives who often reside outside traditional artistic disciplines. By providing space primed to instigate new ideas, Brink fosters dialogue and collaborative community across disciplines and cultural divides.”

Open House

Thank you to Alastair Murdoch and the team at Inkwell Journal for including “Open House” in Issue 37. The theme of the issue is Watershed. Thank you, also, to Donna Miele for her thoughtful edits on this short story.