Let Me Suggest Some Stories

 From Fictive Dream: Miss Yunt by Louis Gallo - flash fiction, I cannot write. It reads like a prose poem and lands a punch like Mike Tyson. I sprawl too much, talk too much to pull it off.

From Another Chicago Magazine: “Every Blade of Grass Has Its Angel that Bends Over It and Whispers, ‘Grow, Grow.'” by Jennifer Anne Moses knocked me over. I do not see how I could have written the same story - Ms. Moses has a rhythm, a pacing that brought me into the heart of her story, and it does have quite a heart.

Short stories (science fiction) reviewed by Apex Magazine: Words for Thought: January 2023 (Yes, I know it is now February)

From Adroit Journal: David Foster Wallace Alive and Well In the Caribbean - which has a great opening line, a relentless pacing, and an ending of absurdist sense of humor that is so dark, I had to laugh. I have not read any of Wallace's short stories, but I will assume it is a homage. Even so, I liked it.

The latest Adroit Journal has three other stories that, at least for now, I do not have time to read.

From The Good Life Review: Who Takes the Bus in LA by Marc Eichen. I started a story l;ike this - one I need to get back to- where the narrator directly addresses the reader. Albert Camus did the same thing in his novel The Fall. This story kept surprising me. A Covid story, a love story. Well constructed with a heart and maybe a moral -

And I ask him, “You really think this helps?”

And he says, “Yeah.” I dump one of the sugars in my coffee and he takes one. “It’s about the story. And how you tell it.”

And because of this story, I submitted "Colonel Tom."

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Goodbye Mr. Kamali by Sepideh Zamani, Delmarva Review, a Pushcart Prize nominee.

The Ways of the Esquimaux, by Fiona J Mackintosh, another flash fiction from Fictive Dreams

 Whose Shirt Is It Anyway? by David Joseph from Half and One is a story built on dialog for a hell of punchline. I wonder what my exes would say about it.

Another flash fiction from Fictive Dreams: How to Say Goodbye, Again. I find most interesting for its intensity and being told in the second person. 

I deleted some others and have a few more to read, but I think this needs to be dragged out of the drafts.

I hope you like my selections. At least, we can some of what is being published nowadays.

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