THE KENYON REVIEW--"Them Captives, Them Heartbroke" Sometimes one of us would drag a foot over a submerged tree limb, and the rest of us would stop in our tracks thinking it was a dead man. READ MORE HERE thegeorgiareview.com/shop/issues/fall-2018-winter-2018/ THE GEORGIA REVIEW--"Sideways With Saint Peter" So he goes west for a while. Catches a ride on the Ole Money Sweetheart on the Mississippi where nobody knows him. READ MORE HERE
NASHVILLE REVIEW--"Creatures on The Fifth Day of Creation" I get to thinking how often we took the Lord’s name in vain and took to calling the violence of our own hands divine acts of God. As though all our vengeance had originated from Him and Him alone. We called planes, shot out of the sky, those that hindered the flight of angels—and we’d been the ones to shoot them down. READ MORE HERE
THE CAROLINA QUARTERLY--"Saint Marty, Pray For Us" Used to be me and the old man, sitting by the record player during starless nights of August, heaving our prayers against the backdoor glass and up into rainless skies for one listen from God Almighty. Drought, we’d pray. Sin, we’d pray. Why one woman or another comes unstuck from our gravity and drifts out to Little Rock—we kept praying. READ MORE HERE