David Morck at NewPages.com recently reviewed the fall 2010 issue of Crab Creek Review, the issue that includes my story “Live Model.” The review gives special attention to the issue’s Beyond Ekphrasis: Poems of the Musical, Mathematical, and Visual section. I particularly enjoyed that section of the magazine, as well. Guest editor Susan Rich selected [...]

The editors of the Crab Creek Review nominated my short story “Live Model” for a Pushcart Prize. This is my first Pushcart nomination. Warning: Searching for “lingerie model” on Flickr brings up a lot of photos of something called the Lingerie Football League. With team names like San Diego Seduction and Dallas Desire. I’m not [...]

My Crab Creek Review copies came, so I dutifully set out to photograph them with my cats as promised. Turns out that cats don’t really like having literary magazines shoved in their faces. Who knew? But this post is also an excuse to introduce Saucy and Cirrus, which I haven’t done in an official capacity [...]

My story “Live Model” appears in the newly released Crab Creek Review 2010 Vol. 2 issue. This story is about an extraordinarily unattractive lingerie shop employee who begins modeling the merchandise in the store window. Her favorite sandwich is peanut butter/lettuce/potato chip, she makes it on all the local news stations, and she’s a dead [...]