A 10 pm departure. Only a half hour out of Kunming and already the windows displayed a repetitive wheel of blackness. The 66 hard beds in car five were half full. Families with small children, students, some middle-aged business men in button down shirts, the ubiquitous black leather shoe of the Chinese male.
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Monthly Archives: December 2013
The ‘Best of Fiction’ Issue
I am delighted to report my short story, New to America, was selected for This Great Society’s 2013 Best Of Fiction Issue. Via This Great Society, read more
What seems to be the problem?
Well, I was wondering if you might take a look at my Mac.
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New to America
This world of lotharios and lovers and cheaters and other people and bigger mattresses and soup, well, that is this world. I sat alone in the same room the following day, on the same floor with the same white walls, christening the place to a holy pureness. Via This Great Society, read more
Take a Page Out of Zora’s Book
I have recently completed a draft of something long and feverish and I intend to send it out soon with my heart in my throat where it belongs and always does, I believe, its best work. At night I will tuck myself in and listen for the frozen thrum of snow on the panes. It is best to be alone.
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