My short story “Veracruz in Fragments” is now published at The Rusty Nail. Many thanks to editor Craig A. Heart and Dr. Kimberly Nylen Hart for taking this piece. The story made the rounds for several months, getting rejected over and over. At one point I pulled it and re-wrote some passages…basically unified it. The piece was written in three parts at three separate times in my life. It reads quite sad now, on my last pass over it; not sadly written, it’s just an unfortunate subject matter. I tried placing it in a Mexican publication, but the editor thought it portrayed Mexico in a negative light, and from a visitor’s point of view. In fact, the story for me reads much like something along the lines of a Brett Easton Ellis piece…just straight up information being delivered by an un-affected or desensitized narrator;it’s never meant to demean the country or setting. I remember at the time I wrote this, I was very much affected/influenced by Brett Easton Ellis’ “The Informers” and Chuck Palahniuk’s “Fight Club.” I’m quite sure some of that style seeped in. I steal even subconsciously, it seems.
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LoveNotLove
It’s a love letter but it’s not really a love letter or it’s sort of a love letter but it’s not really about love I don’t know you just decide for yourself. It’s here at Jumping Blue Gods, thanks to editor Jennifer Bridges who had the open mind to publish it.
Marco? Polo! Marco? Polo!
I hate this water game, really…but I can’t find a good title for the post, so garbage it is then. My short piece “Dulce et Decorum Est” was published yesterday here, at Marco Polo Magazine by editor Darin Beasley. Darin took this piece a few months ago; he and I share a mutual admiration for poet Wilfred Owen who was killed on the day before the Armistice in 1918. I wish I had more background on this piece, but I honestly don’t remember much; I wrote it back in ’09 and I can’t think of any interesting details or a backstory for it. I’m happy it lives at Marco Polo; Darin is a filmmaker by education, so the magazine is heavy on the visual. I hope you dig it.
