Roi Fainéant Press - Octopus 8 Issue

This little micro fiction came from a photo I saw of two people sitting back to back with only their legs framed in the picture. Bits of imagery made it into story, but in the end, it was less about the legs (which was the original working title of this piece) and more about the separate journeys ahead.

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Kissing Dynamite, Issue 38

I grew up landlocked in the prairies, and continue to live nowhere near a coast. Still…I miss the sea. This poem was inspired by a sleepless night where, due to a combination of insomnia and jet lag, the waves outside my window kept me up, incessant, refusing to cease their roar until morning. So much for the idea of being lulled off to dreamland by the sound of peaceful waves.

Read Tonight, I Do Not Love the Sea (and Questions I Ask the Shore) in Kissing Dynamite’s banging Issue 38: Sublunary.

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Marvelous Verses

It started as something fun. The Daily Drunk, a lit mag who specializes in merging pop culture and writing, was putting together an anthology about Marvel superheroes and villains. I was interested, but the day job was getting crazy, and I didn’t have much creative juice in the evenings. But a poem about Kitty Pryde kept rattling around in my head.

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