Published in Otoliths
Posted: January 31, 2018 Filed under: announcement, poetry, publication | Tags: difficult, eternity, Otoliths, poetry, publication, writing Leave a commentTwo of my poems have been published in the new issue of Otoliths. Thank you, Mark Young.
Published in Isacoustic
Posted: December 21, 2017 Filed under: announcement, poetry, publication Leave a commentI have three poems published in Isacoustic. Thank you to Barton Smock.
Published in Blue Fifth Review
Posted: December 1, 2017 Filed under: announcement, flash fiction, prose, publication Leave a commentMy flash fiction piece “Time” is published in the new Blue Fifth Review. Thanks to Michelle Elvy, Bill Yarrow, and Sam Rasnake!
Indefinite Space
Posted: November 27, 2017 Filed under: announcement, poetry, publication Leave a commentI have two poems accepted for publication in the 2018 issue of Indefinite Space, edited by Marcia Arrieta. Thanks so much, Marcia.
Otoliths
Posted: November 21, 2017 Filed under: announcement, poetry Leave a commentTwo poems accepted for publication in the February issue of the wonderful magazine Otoliths, edited by Mark Young. Thanks so much, Mark.
Alone and Other Flash Fiction out now
Posted: November 16, 2017 Filed under: announcement, fiction, flash fiction, prose, publication Leave a commentMy new prose book, Alone and Other Flash Fiction, is now available on Amazon as a kindle e-book.
Alone and Other Flash Fiction is a collection of short short stories about aloneness and loneliness. The title piece is about a woman who is lonely for so many things in her life but the story ultimately surprises the reader with her honesty.
Published in Tower Journal
Posted: November 10, 2017 Filed under: announcement, poetry, publication Leave a commentI have two poems published in the new issue of The Tower Journal. Thanks to Mary Ann Sullivan.
Published in Otoliths
Posted: October 31, 2017 Filed under: announcement, fiction, flash fiction, prose, publication Leave a commentI have four fiction pieces published in the new issue of Otoliths, edited by Mark Young. Thanks, Mark.
These four pieces will be in Alone and Other Flash Fiction, coming in December.
From forthcoming book, Alone and Other Flash Fiction
Posted: October 24, 2017 Filed under: announcement, flash fiction, prose, publication Leave a commentSometime in December, I’m going to publish a 44-page free ebook of stories called Alone and Other Flash Fiction. This is one of the pieces from it.
Language
I know a friend who speaks five languages.
She expresses herself best in English. But occasionally, she would burst into Chinese, recovering some word lost since childhood, picking it up like it was a seashell she almost stepped on.
The thing with language is it is so malleable. People living in different cities sometimes couldn’t understand each other even when they speak the same language. Accent is another thing. But languages absorb other languages, changing so much that they are virtually unrecognisable.
I’d like to think that love is like that. We live to love. Each person we speak with speaks a different language. Think of Babel. Think of that sky we’re trying to reach since we were born. We look up and never know when we’ll reach it. Perhaps even knowing it’s an impossibility, this reaching, this striving to love like it’s there becoming something we need.
Like language. Indispensable. Necessary. Essential.
For expression, for livelihood, for living.
How do you talk to someone who doesn’t speak your language? You love them. You look at them. You think that the city you’re in is a language you learned to speak. Go there.
The night is falling in this city. It is quiet, as quiet as language itself, without words.
I’m saying that love is not just a language, it is there to be here, to reach us like the night sky.
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