Tag: literary magazines

In case you missed ’em

Links to my latest published writings.

Over the past week I had three pieces published in various literary magazines:

  • “Weather Report” was published last Wednesday, April 15, in Flash Fiction Magazine. This flash fiction piece describes how an ordinary morning walk is disrupted by an extraordinary encounter. I’m grateful to Aishwarya Mishra for her helpful edits, which strengthened this piece.
  • “The Cat Says” was published last Friday in The Orange Rose Literary Magazine. This short story is about the dynamics between humans and their pets, with a bit of woo-woo psychic work thrown in. This piece was part of a special themed issue about pets called “Love You, Miss You,” created to honor the recently departed Biscotti, one of editor-in-chief Amber Budd‘s two cats that inspired the magazine’s name (Biscotti being the Orange). My thanks to Amber for including my piece in this issue.
  • “A Cure for Doomscrolling” was published Sunday, April 19, in an interesting literary message board called Some Words. My poem was one of the poems posted by Some Words in honor of National Poetry Month, which continues through April. Some Words creator and editor Justin Carter pours his heart and soul editing and curating this quirky lit thing, and you should visit to read some of the great works appearing there.

I have one other piece, a short story, that should be published sometime this spring, and the short story that will appear in the Warren Zevon-inspired anthology that comes out in July. Other than that, no other writings have been picked up lately. I hope that changes soon. Whether it does or it doesn’t, I plan to keep writing.

Friday Five: Cowboy Jamboree’s Adam Van Winkle, author of ‘Count the Dust’

‘The idea became intriguing for me: write a play to be read.’

Radio plays have been around for a century or more, practically since the advent of radio. They thrived during the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s–an era sometimes called the Golden Age of Radio. In his latest novel, Count the Dust (LEFTOVER Books, December 2025), writer and literary magazine editor Adam Van Winkle taps into that approach to create a distinctive story designed for radio but equally enjoyable as a good read.

Count the Dust is set in a nameless small town in southern Oklahoma or north Texas. It’s modeled after the place where Adam grew up, Texoma, but, as he writes, it could be any of the “many small Oklahoma and Texas towns I’ve been in and through that center around a filling station on a state highway.” It’s a murder mystery, told over two time periods–1967, the year of the murder, and 1997–as well as a story of “the persistence of offspring in unideal circumstances.”

“These places, like places I grew up in and around, with little money, little resources, drugs, guns, violence, strained marriages and poisonous relationships, they still find a way to produce progeny. People still meet through the circumstance of life, new people still get born.”

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