Stories and poetry published in the Summer of 2021

 

The short story “Under the Lake” appears in the UK-based Cerasus Magazine and can be purchased  as a summer special paperback at Amazon. The story is loosely inspired by legends surrounding Beardslee Lake , five miles east of Little Falls in central New York State.

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The poem “Dream of a Spanish Town” is a very different kind of work, inspired by reading the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo many years ago. It appears in Maya's Micros, a segment of the Closed Eye Open site. The founders of the site pay tribute to such thinkers as Carl, Jung, Alan Watts, Simone Weil, Huston Smith...

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"The Painted Sidewalk" can be read in last month's Farside Review. 

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Hammer and Sickle, a story of the McCarthy Era in upstate New York,  appears in another UK-based review, Bandit Fiction. Like the rest of my historical fiction, it is inspired by legends and history of the. Mohawk Valley, in this case the story of a solitary farmer who painted pro-communist slogans on his barn in the midst McCarthy period. 

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Second Chance Lit is a unique publishing site in its commitment to work previously rejected or forgotten. The editors David and Katie Wasserman only accept work that has been turned down by other magazines, and I felt honored when they published my poem "Doctor Wicked" in their second issue in April. Another experiment run by Second Chance lit is the Phoenix Project, dedicated solely to works of literature originally published in now defunct magazines. My poem "No River Where They Parted" appeared in the Phoenix section of the site and was inspired, somewhat like the Vallejo-inspired poem in Maya's Micros, by reading the Italian poetry of Eugenio Montale many years ago. It originally was published in the long defunct little Brooklyn Magazine, the Brownstone Review.