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My blurb for Daniel Fitzpatrick’s Red Robichaux and Other Southern Moralists:

Daniel Fitzpatrick being a member of that true breed of moral writers, the irony of the title of his short-story collection Red Robichaux and Other Southern Moralists is not lost on the reader. In the tradition of Eudora Welty, he too casts a wide net, his gathering of characters of every kind reflecting the muddy and bucolic waters of the New Orleans area; the unpredictable Gulf Coast; a Hot Springs that is not exactly healing. Your soul becalmed by Fitzpatrick’s intelligent poetic prose, his wicked humor leaves you spluttering in its wake. The final story bringing together recurring characters and themes compels the reader to recross the bridges of the collection’s beginning. We need more Southern moralists.

You can buy Danny’s book at his publisher Lavender Ink Press.

Recently I had some interest in my two poems in the anthology The Body Electric (2011), edited by Aimee Herman, no longer in print, so here they are, “On a Swing” and “Pose.” A different version of “Pose” can be found in my new short-story collection, Secret Keepers.

My short story, “High Heat,” originally published in the University of Kansas’s Summer 2021 issue of the now-defunct LandLocked has new life thanks to its inclusion in the Blazing issue of Bulb Culture Collective‘s zine, Chandelier.

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My poem “At Bay,” a part of the Napkin Poems series, guest-edited by poet Gardner Dorton, for Thirty West Publishing House‘s literary magazine and newsletter Afterimages

My newest short story, “The Cusp,” is in Teatles (Issue Two), the latest iteration of an artistic zine edited by Huw Spink. “The Cusp” is a different kind of story for me (and for Teatles).

My contribution to The Belle Point Prose Series, available for free when you preorder my book Letting in Air and Light from Belle Point Press’s online shop.

“Prose like Sashimi,” my tribute to the writer Pia Z. Ehrhardt, is in WayWords, Vol. 1, Issue 8.

My short story “Underneath the Bough” is in the print edition of Solstice, Issue 3, Autumn 2022. The print magazine and site have since been rebranded as Empyrean Literary Magazine.

I have work in The Teatles Book, a fanzine developed and edited by @teatlemania (on Twitter), in issues 3, 6, and 13. The last two pieces are also included in the two compilation issues (Red and Blue, of course).