More Writings. . .

NON-NOVEL NEWS, continued:

Bookworm’s Desire is in the print Winter 2023 issue of Catamaran Literary Reader in which a narrator describes what is was like to try and find a book in a brick and mortar store.

Garden Party is included in the digital Sortes Magazine 13, Spring 2023, with three wanderers cozying up to an introverted reader in a secluded park.

Beyond the Trees is both in print and digital in 34th Parallel Magazine, where an ignored grandfather is asked to umpire a kids’ sandlot game.

Alligator Observed in included in the print issue of Catamaran Summer 2023, a tale of a grad student attempting to befriend an alligator.

Looking for the Rabbi is reprinted in the Red Noise Collective 2023 Anthology, Tide, as a guilty-feeling dad writes a letter of apology to a rabbi he hasn’t seen for forty years.

Tree Cutter appears in the summer 2023 issue of Men Matters Journal, where an ornery middle-aged landscaper matches wits with the lady of an upper class household.

Non-novel News

I’ve got a short story in printed issue 39, Winter 2023, of Catamaran Literary Reader called “Bookworm’s Desire.”

Here’s the opening: Why am I continuing to harp on this? Probably habit. And perhaps a desire to correct a wrong. When Rummaging Among the Platitudes was published (in what was then known as a hardback), a certain category of reading enthusiast took note. Remember, this was before BookBrain, Flux, and NeuralFace. Printed books were the connector then. As word spread, through letters (snail mail), phone calls and personal conversation, Rummaging found an audience of free thinkers, political and social outsiders, and even a classic book lover or two.

Also have a story in the Spring Edition of Sortes Magazine, an online publication, called “Garden Party.”

It begins: Late afternoon. The light of day was turning golden and more cars were haunting the streets. We'd come out of the neighborhood market whose owner was happy to see us depart. Proprietors are like that – they take our money easily enough, and then go stiff to let us know it's time to leave.