When I taught fiction writing, I used to post my rejection slips on the bulletin board.
Now retired, I’m posting the work that got accepted, 150 stories and counting.

  • The Queen of Bass Fishing In America

    I was in St. Louis visiting friends. There was a picture in the back of the sports section of a woman holding a large fish. “That’s the Queen of Bass Fishing in America,” I told them. Things got more interesting from there. The story originally appeared in The Timber Creek Review. It was nominated for a… Read more

  • A Fraud Examiner and an Aerialist Walked Into a

    Front Porch Review, Volume 20, January 2018 Benjamin called the night Kat arrived from New York and proposed drinks at the Blackstone, Tuesday evening at 7:00. To celebrate your return. Monday, with her last paycheck from Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, Kat bought a sleeveless black dress, dark hose, 3-inch heels, and a red… Read more

  • “Permission”

    Erozine, November 30, 2020. An attractive young professor confers with the French Department ladies as she negotiates the treacherous Read more