Neat news: My short story “Five Cornish Game Hens” was an honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers (which basically just means it was in the top 10 percent of entries).
It’s basically the most modest of recognition, but Glimmer Train is one of the most well known lit mags in the country (it publishes 1/10 of 1 percent of all submissions). So it’s a nice little bit of recognition.
So anyway, I guess I still need to get this damn thing published somewhere.
“Oh my god, Dave! Did you hear that, the television? Dave, you have to get a load of this!”
Dave had not heard the television, or Jennifer, for that matter. He was in the couple’s study, head wrapped in enormous noise-canceling headphones, eyes dancing across the lines of text displayed on his laptop monitor. A nightly habit of late, he was writing at the large oak desk he had inherited from his father.
He was absorbed in reworking a particularly dense section of dialogue when Jennifer burst into the study, backlit by the television in the adjoining room, a silhouetted specter portending the death of his productivity. With arms spread wide in mock dramatic fashion, she descended upon her bemused husband.
Read the full piece at Open: Journal of Arts & Letters
By A.D. Muller 