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