My story, “Double Dutch,” is up at Scapezine as of this moment! The amazing Galen Dara illustrated it like she knew my own mind. I wrote this story during Week 3 at Clarion West in 2010. So happy it has a home now. And it’s a beautiful home. I don’t think I can go to sleep now–and I apologize in advance if you read it and find you don’t want to eat eggs in the morning.
Today I woke up at 6:30am to find an email from Scape e-zine, buying my story, “Double Dutch”! I’d been having a pretty terrible week/month, so to find this wonderful news in my inbox kicked me straight out of the doldrums and into writerly ecstasy. It’s my first actual sale, though I’ve placed plenty of work in other pubs (gratis). I’m so excited I could throw up.
I wrote “Double Dutch” during week three of Clarion West, and it began a string of absolutely weird ideas I never thought myself capable of writing. This story taught me that I should never, ever let my internal censor tell me something was too weird to write. After “Double Dutch” came an absolutely frightening story that still hurts to think about. But “Double Dutch” kicked off a new way for me to explore fiction, so I couldn’t be more excited that this is the first story I’ve sold.
Please check out Scape and embrace all its glory:
My poems “Jumping Point” and “the velocity of the fall” have been accepted for the 2011 issue of Oracle, the journal published by the University of South Alabama. I wrote “Jumping Point” while at Naropa University’s Summer Writers Program, and “the velocity of the fall” came about one fall afternoon as the leaves swirled through the creek in my backyard. I feel privileged to have my work forthcoming in this journal!
Out now! My poem, “echoes,” is in Issue 9.5 of DIAGRAM, and my poem, “He said ‘See you in Heaven.’ I said ‘If ever.’” is in Vol. 22 of Sojourn. Order here.
Two new poems will appear in Sojourn’s Best of UTD issue: “coney island” and my abecedarian piece “Life of a Scar.”
My story, “Back of the Hand,” is out! Check it out in the Interbirth Books anthology INTER, along with my poem, “The Lucubration of Mathilde Sinclair.” Limited editions are $15 (now sold out). I hear it might be available online in the near future…