Over time, I permitted the Russian to border-cross my thoughts.
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Read more "New Fiction: Sugar | New South Journal"My phone was pinging and whistling and popping with analyst notifications and team updates all morning, but then I remembered that waltz.
Read more "New Fiction: Hamartia Lippincott | Pure Slush"Brad stepped over to where we sisters sat, like two old price tags from last season’s sale we must have looked, although Wynne looked wound up in that way that tempted Brad. I French inhaled without looking at him. He deviled Wynne, placed the dirty ashtray near her. “You might need this,” he said, and went back to bartending. I saw the lipstick. Rat.
Read more "Short Story: Jean, 1948 | Change Seven Magazine"I turned the key, punched the code. The jetpack surged from rest. “Today’s the day, little Sparo.”
“A fine morning, Alistair Edgar,” Sparo said, blinking. “Shall we fly?”
Read more "New Fiction: Alistair’s Tears | Sick Lit Magazine"“But Grant innovates within genre and gender roles. Think of it as noir fiction hitting the West Coast in 1940, idling in a cul-de-sac for a few decades; then Grant hops into the driver’s seat with some Hispanic heroes and villains as passengers for a fresh spin around the block. “
Read more "New Review | Mexicali Blues by Joseph Grant"“Big Tee’s hushed voice said hold, son. Give me a moment here and I’ll take your hand.”
Read more "New Fiction: Arise | Sick Lit Magazine"Nominee: Best Small Fictions 2017 | “From a distance, upfurlers shimmered like a murmuration, gently hovered there, like some air current snapped a soft blanket below their soft forms; their tears plocked down, but wore away to nothing before anyone could know.”
Read more "FINALIST: Best Small Fictions 2017 | “Upfurler” | Pure Slush FIVE Anthology"Orginally posted at Visual Verse | “…overestimate; borrow, beg, barter, pose: regionalize.”
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