The Brussels Review and the Collidescope both released my work today!

My first short fiction piece in 10 years, “How Mythical Creatures End Up Becoming Librarians,” was published today by The Collidescope! I’m so excited to see it up and out in the world. If the diction strikes you as a bit odd, it was initially a poem, but I thought it worked better (and was more publishable) as flash fiction. Also today, The Brussels Review published my poems “To Dr. Oppenheimer: An Admonition in Terza Rima,” “The Longest Kiss Goodbye,” and “Not My Sleeping Child,” and have called the three poems The Ash Psalms (how gorgeous is that?). I am particularly happy that the Oppenheimer piece found a home – it’s very long, and there are few places that will publish a more than 4 page poem. But the form – terza rima – requires space to develop with its forward and backward movement (ABA BCB CDC DED…). I also don’t work in formal structures often, so it makes me especially happy when publishers choose that work as it builds my confidence.