A personal goal’s been achieved: My first published non-fiction essay, “The Gyrification of Violence,” will appear in the Fall, 2021 issue of Vastarien: A Literary Journal.
Yet — having a piece of writing accepted under the critical eye and estimable reputation of Jon Padgett and Grimscribe Press — also serves as a professional marker; one need only examine the table of contents and the names of my fellow contributors to confirm this double issue’s literary formidability…
- Vastarien Column: Tenebrous Ramblings by Romana Lockwood
- The Unpleasant State of Beginning by Hailey Piper
- Matsuri by Michael Uhall
- The Mushroom Men by Carson Winter
- Heartstrings by Philippa Evans
- Sculpting by Mari Ness
- She Ain’t Stoppin’ by Christi Nogle
- Fold by Gwen C. Katz
- Night Mare by Stephanie M. Wytovich
- On Borrowed Time by Greg Sisco
- Voyeur by Tori Fredrick
- Everything Will Be Okay by John Claude Smith
- The Bloody Story of his Canvas: A Reading of “The Lost Art of Twilight” by George Prekas
- How to Send the Dead (Assuming You’ve Cremated Them Against Their Dying Wish) by Juleigh Howard-Hobson
- Sometimes It’s Just Like Hiding by Georgia Cook
- Down the Dark Hallway: An Essay on P.T. by Sean M. Thompson
- A Walkthrough of Route X: Video Games and the Postmodern Gothic by Joanna Parypinski
- Thy Structures Rear’d in Blood by Rhonda Eikamp
- Vulture Eyes by Christa Carmen
- Revenge and Envy Are Very Small Things: Cosmic Inconsequentialism in S. P.
- Miskowski’s Skillute Cycle by S. L. Edwards
- The Accursed Manor of the Mirrorlands by LC von Hessen
- Anthropophagus by Sara Tantlinger
- The Collected Poems of James Zjarek, Transgressor by Perry Ruhland
- The Shining Path by Paul L. Bates
- Lullaby by Jenny Darmody
- Lonely Wordless Ghosts by Mari Ness
- Red Knots Tightening by Emer O’Hanlon
- The Three Paradigms of Horror by Dejan Ognjanović
- The Gyrification of Violence by Clint Smith
- The Food Fellow by Ivy Grimes
- This Story Will Kill You by Kurt Fawver
