I wrote some horror and dark fiction and poetry that appeared in publication this year. Here is a list of the titles for this year’s awards and eligibility list just in case you are a nominating sort. Good Housekeeping in Coffin Bell Journal Volume 4, Issue No. 3 Visualize a Wolf in All Hallow’s Eve Anthology from Crow’s Feet Journal Fire Season in Ariadne Magazine Homecoming in The Horror Zine Summer 2021 Snake on the Door in The Black Fork Review Issue 4 The Healing in Bandit Fiction Thank you for reading.
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The Healing in Bandit Fiction
I have a new story up this week with the wonderful online magazine Bandit Fiction. This is an excerpt from a novel that became my MFA thesis at Ashland MFA. I hope you’ll enjoy the reading.
Coffin Bell
Check out my short story Good Housekeeping in the latest issue of Coffin Bell. CW: Child abuse, sexual violence, drug addiction
Books I Read in 2020
I don’t finish books I don’t enjoy. I recommend every one of these, and I am grateful to the writers who kept me company this year. Novels Half in Love with Death by Emily Ross Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer The Known World by Ernest P. Jones The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon Chemistry by Weike Wang When Reasons End by Yiyun Li The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Normal People by Sally Rooney Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel The Summer Demands…
Howling Mad Review Issue 1
I have a flash nonfiction piece up at the first issue of Howling Mad Review, a magazine run by two of my favorite people, fellow Ashland MFA writers Amy Zanarek and Jason Gaidis. Check it out here.
2019 Reading
Here is a list of all the books I read in 2019, minus the self-help and diet guides because you don’t need to know all that. Within find poetry collections, short story collections, memoir, investigative journalism, literary fiction, horror, young adult, and a western. I don’t finish books I don’t like, so I recommend every single one. The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson Red Clocks by Leni Zumas Hundred Year House by Rebecca Makkai The Hundred Year Flood by Matthew Salesses Rough Animals by Rae DelBianco Soy Sauce for Beginners by Kirstin Chen The Mars Room by Rachel…
10 Poignant Novels Set Amidst Major Events of the 20th Century
The Ghost Daughter was included in this line up of cool books. Check out the video here.
Scoundrel Time
Authors Karen Bender and Paula Whyman are fiction editors of a cool literary magazine called Scoundrel Time. I’m really proud to say they were kind enough to work with me on my story Say His Name. When you read it you’ll know who was in my heart while I wrote it. Still waiting for some justice, by the way. Check out Scoundrel Time here.
Books I’ve Read in 2018
I meant to read fifty books this year but I only made it to forty-six whole ones. I don’t finish books I don’t enjoy, and except for one by a dead author that I had to read for work, I enjoyed every single one on this list in varying degrees enough to not throw across the room. (Just kidding I would never throw a book except that I have thrown a book and I will throw a book again if one makes me mad enough.) Back to my 2018 reading, listed here in the order in which I read them….
Twenty Nine Years After
Twenty-nine years ago the Loma Prieta earthquake happened at 5:04 and changed my life forever after. The Loma Prieta earthquake and the fifteen seconds I spent cowering under a big oak desk while the ceiling came down in the hundred year old building I was working in changed how I viewed every other second that came after. The Loma Prieta earthquake and the two kind people (one who was someone’s love, one who was someone’s dad) who died on the other side of the wall during those fifteen seconds changed the way I treated every other person I met after….
Maureen O'Leary 