god's naked will
My pal C.D. Mitchell has a new story online at Burnt Bridge.
A virgin Pentecostal preacher orders a prostitute named Delilah to the Palmer House Hilton!What could go wrong?
lee martin's blue christmas
"The woman's in our backseat before I can say shoo. A skinny thing with too much eye makeup and a high forehead that shines in the glow from our Buick's dome light." -- "Anywhere, Please"
Lee is the author of four novels, including his most recent Break the Skin, and the Pulitzer Prize finalist, The Bright Forever. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper's, Ms., The Georgia Review, Creative Nonfiction, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The Ohio State University.
Join us at Books & Books in Coral Gables for Blue Christmas Party this Saturday, December 10, at 7 P.M.
If you can't make the event, you can still buy the book here.
the cross-eyed bear
You can buy a copy of my story "The Cross-eyed Bear" here. It appeared in both Boston Noir and Best American Mystery Stories 2010.
she knew better
Another piece of flash fiction from Merle Drown. "In the morning she found Ray in the kitchen cleaning her fecal matter from the barrel of his .22-250."
too much happiness
Alice Munro's new short story in the current Harper's.
"Always remember that when a man goes out of a room, he leaves everything in it behind," her friend Marie Mendelson has told her. "When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her."
anniversary cards
New flash fiction from Merle Drown in the Kenyon Review.
"definitely not. i'm almost positive"
Today's short story waiting to be written: The owner of the Serenity Gardens Funeral Home claims the four bodies left behind when he sold the funeral parlor were not his responsibility! "I'm sure they're not." (thanks to Lisa in Austin)
resurrection
Today's short story waiting to be written. Woman starves her one-year-old to death because he won't say "Amen" after meals. (thanks to CD in Tuscaloosa)
follow the balloons
Another short-short from Merle Drown.
the woman in the blue coat
Short fiction by Corey Ginsburg, editor of Gulf Stream, MFA candidate, Friday Night Writer. (click through pages to page 16.)
promise
Another flash fiction from my pal Merle Drown.
what they did to her
Flash fiction from Merle Drown in Word Riot.
"give a little"
A short story by Steve Street. (The Corpse spells "Chekhov" incorrectly, not Steve!)
death and texas
Living with the dead. That way the checks keep coming. Never liked that couch much anyway. Today's short story waiting to be written. (thanks to Joe in Cheese [Texas])