Published Again! In Shark Reef!

When I got home from Hawaii, I had a message about this acceptance on my machine. Trying to figure out which was better was a total toss-up - tropical paradise or publication is always a tough call.

Shark Reef is a local online literary journal, part of the Writers Guild on Lopez Island. I was especially excited that my piece made it in for two reasons.

The first is, I've heard that Shark Reef is difficult to get into, that they're pretty choosy with what they publish, so it felt pretty good to get in.

The second reason is, this piece is in some ways, highly inappropriate. I'm still sort of stunned anyone agreed to publish it, lol, in a good way. I was at that artist residency a few weeks ago, and during the last night there, we all shared something with the group, and I read parts of this chapter and laughed so hard tears were pouring down my face, but other parts of it are pretty sad. I like mixing the two.

Anyway, less talk, more rock.

Here it is:
Shark Reef

All the pieces are listed on the right-hand side. Mine is first under non-fiction.

I'd also highly recommend checking out the previous issue (scroll down on that list of pieces and you'll see the linkey link for that), and especially the pieces by Agnes Vadas and Janet Thomas.

Happy Reading!


Currently Listening:

"What I Know Now" - Dog's Eye View - from the album Happy Nowhere, an album I absolutely adore. It has sentimental meaning to me. The first time I met my friend BlueShine, almost 8 years ago, she wanted me to get this album so she gave me this thing she had typed up with a list of all the songs, and some commentary on each of them and what they meant to her, and snippets of her favorite lyrical passages. I always thought of that as one of the COOLEST gifts anyone ever gave me, a little roadmap of how an album touched her. It doesn't hurt that there are some really great lyrics on this CD, so there were a lot of lines and turns of phrases just waiting to be written about.