Hobart, American Short Fiction

- May Hobart is now live, featuring stories by Tim Jones-Yelvington, David Joseph, Mesha Maren, Matt Leibel, Ledia Xhoga, plus an interview with Brock Clarke by Micah Riecker! This is a wonderful issue (as they all are) and I'm happy to see it go up. Huge thanks to the talented writers who let us publish their work!


- My story "Not A Song but a Prayer" is up over at American Short Fiction as part of their monthly web exclusive series. You can read an interview at their blog, too. I talk a little about writing about Sweden and about setting and place and try to sound smart.


Here's the first few sentences from the story:

The twins, Eskil and Einar, are chopping wood. Their father bought a cord from the horse farm in Elmsta. It is the boys’ job to split the logs and stack them along the west wall of the tilting Falu-red outbuilding their father calls a shed but is a carport with a chain-link gate locked across the opening. They have been working for an hour. Caroline is inside and watches from the window as her brothers trade blows with the ax. 

Many thanks to Marian Oman, Jill Meyers and the rest of the good folks at American Short Fiction!