The recently-released anthology, Male Pattern Violence (CultureCult Press, 2026), contains my story, “The Gyrification of Violence.” Edited by the press’s founder, Jay Chakravarti, the story is a reprint-inclusion originally appearing in Vastarien: A Literary Journal (lamentably on indefinite hiatus, but hopefully in some dark hibernation).

Male Pattern Violence houses thirty-five stories from an eclectic selection of contributors. “From the housing projects of France to the fishing villages of Bangladesh, from Victorian England to the digital wastelands of social media moderation, Male Pattern Violence traces the architecture of male violence: not as aberrations, but as a pattern, perpetuated consciously or otherwise, since time immemorial.” 

As for my own offering, the editor’s intro follows: “A single punch in a middle-school hallway, then decades of aftershocks. [Clint] Smith dissects male violence not as spectacle, but as a wound that never heals.”