The amazing editorial crew at Hypocrite Reader asked me to submit something that felt like a loose end, something unresolved. I knew just what they were talking about. It was this essay, mostly written five years ago, heavily edited recently and published now: “Bigness Has No Name”.
The wonderful folks at The Ilanot Review published my short story "The Devil's Terrible Nearness" and nominated it for a Pushcart Prize! You can read the story online, here.
I met the subject of The Dry Sea trespassing the burnt remains of her house. Nearly the last occupant of a ghost town on Colorado’s southeastern plains, she was generous and terrifying, a high artist of small talk capable of compressing whole novels into clucking aphorisms. Read it in The Hypocrite Reader
