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"A fully imagined and always surprising take on life along the Gulf of Mexico fifty years and many disasters from now. Yet people-and the old spirit of Louisiana-endure." —MIKE TIDWELL, author of Bayou Farewell, writing about Soaked: Stories

If the dead end moves not once, but twice, shouldn’t
that make it twice the party?

Chuck, p. 10 Soaked

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Contests and Publications

Kallisto Gaia Press, Joshua Tree Novel Prize~Finalist

Dark Roux, Unsolicited Press, 2022

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Hidden River Arts, Hawk Mountain Short Story Collection ~ Longlisted

Faulkner Wisdom-Words Competition ~ Finalist

Black Lawrence Press, The Hudson Prize ~ Semi-Finalist

Texas Review Press, George Garrett Fiction Prize ~ Finalist

Leapfrog Press, Fiction Prize ~ Longlisted

The Writing District, Monthly Winner

Barrelhouse Magazine, Special Villains Issue

Deep South Magazine 

Coffin Bell Journal, Issue 1.3

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Hidden River Arts

Thanks Hidden River Arts and Hawk Mountain for giving Soaked some love: https://hiddenriverarts.wordpress.com/news-celebrations-and-publi...

Reluctant Hero(ine) for President!

I, like many of us, am a sucker for the reluctant hero(ine). Gimme Frodo. Love me some Meg Murry. Until this week I thought it was...

Morbidly Timely

This connects to the selling of feelings in my last post. Fear, grief, disillusionment: are these what we go into debt from? Or is this...

Selling Feelings

As I perused Atlantic articles and Lit Hub articles and CNN articles I watched as my emotions changed. Each peddled a different feeling:...

Some good South

"The Southern writing tradition has always been the fertile ground for fire. Dry weeds exist, yet the soil is rich. For me, the South is...

Toward emptiness

I'm currently reading Eudora Welty & Walker Percy: The Concept of Home in Their Lives. First, I'm amazed at how heady Montgomery can be...

Katrina, but cold

Full disclosure: I was not in New Orleans for Katrina. The worst we had it in Baton Rouge was power loss for a week. I didn't even have...

Soaked in Love

This summer my short story collection Soaked has been getting love from some amazing competitions: Finalist for the George Garrett...

The messiness of names

I read this lovely article yesterday: hub.com/the-question-of-homoeroticism-in-whitmans-poetry/ . In it the auther considers what makes...

It's already out there

Just a little appetizer to get you ready for Dark Roux in 2022: https://deepsouthmag.com/2018/08/30/the-end-of-the-world-bar/

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