Ok, y’all, I’m sending out my stories in one big heap to various places – open reading calls, chapbook contests, other places I’ve found by looking at the publication lists of favorite writers.

It’s nerve-wracking, intimidating, confusing, draining, scary, discouraging – and just occasionally, encouraging. Ah, life is a paradox.

Also, here, on this blog, I’m going to try to establish a schedule, or at least a pattern.

I want to use this space to share things I find interesting (without infringing on copyrights):
• Other people’s stories/flash/poems/passages

• Quotes or other brief flashes of wisdom or silliness

• Images – purty pictures and observances of daily life

• Info sharing – something academic or artistic or bizarre or inspiring or alarming I noticed and want to share

• Readings. Links. Or sometimes me.

I know this website doesn’t have a readership yet. But I’ll put out the word I’d like to hear from people what they might like me to share, too.

So for starters, if you know a place I should send my work for publication as a collection, or a chapbook contest, or something, please do let me know.

Ciao for now.

I have a new story up at Sleet Magazine!
Thank you Kathy McEathron and Susan Solomon!
Here are the first couple sentences:

He had killed someone once. She thought about this at night. When it was cold, and she’d press against him, she’d think, “This is the back of a man who has killed someone.”

It’s a story framed in part by a true story I was told years ago overlaid with a snippet of conversation overheard at a coffee shop.

To read the whole story, go here!
https://sleetmagazine.com/selected/ferrell_v12n1.html

#flash #flashfiction #snow #sleetmagazine #itscomplicated

Super excited to be part of the Pulp Literature livestream reading on YouTube! This is a longer story of mine, set in the fictional town of Oak Heart, which is where the novel I’m starting is set. It involves Mickey, a mysterious but mostly jovial figure the likes of which you might think you’ve met previously. You’d be wrong.
Here’s a link to the reading. Happening at noon CDT.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW79B4DoCIiW7RTTRK0fsjA