… So you read the first book, and then you got to that time period in the next one, would you wonder why there was no mention of the trial? It was too big to be ignored. It would be like a story about Money, Mississippi in 1955 with no mention of Emmett Till. So I had to retell the story but make it different—and believably so. I wrestled with that problem but finally came up with a simple solution. …
We’re having a studio art and book sale at our home/office/studio in Olympia, Washington on the weekend of December 16 and 17. We hope you will join us!
Megan Kruse’s short story “The Boy” in the story collection Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction) is a haunting story that will stay with you long after you finish reading it, a story you’ll want to read again. A young American soldier named Chester is stationed near the river Anapo in Italy. Despite the camaraderie of …
The paragraphs above are from the opening of Dawud H. Al-Malik memoir, (a work in progress, as edited by James O’Barr) published in Mud Flat Shorts (mostly fiction), a collection of thirty-one great stories by nineteen magnificent writers published by Mud Flat Press. Gabi met Dawud when he and she were attending the Olympia Friends …
Jack Butler, author of Living in Little Rock With Miss Little Rock. JuJitsu for Christ, Nightshade, is a great writer and a great friend. Also published by us at Mud Flat Press are Jack’s books: Practicing Zen Without a Licence and Christmas on a Distant Planet (illustrated by Gabi Clayton.) We met Jack at Mississippi …