Join Us for the Claytons’ Art and Book Sale – December 16 and 17, 2023
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!
Mud Flat Press
Kruse’s “The Boy” Will Linger in Your Mind
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 …
A Look Into Dawud H. Al-Malik’s “From the Depths of Darkness”
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 …