Story + Interview at Connotation Press

 

Connotation-Press treats me kind.

 

 

This month, I have an interview and a story and two flashes (oh my!).

Meg Tuite interviews my crazy. I talk about puking in gutters, my sister stabbing me in the leg with a pen, and kindergarten prostitutes. You can read it here. I apologize in advance.

You can read my story “A Father Orders and Pays for His Daughter’s Playboy Subscription or AKA: True Love” here.

Thanks to the talented Meg Tuite. Thanks to Ken Robidoux and the great Connotation-Press. It’s an honor being featured there for the second time.

Thanks dad, for my Playboy subscription.

Bloopers, Flash & Videotape

I have a piece up at Connotation Press (Thanks to the uber-fab Meg Tuite!) for this month of May. It’s actually a video reading of my flash fiction “An Ordinary Broken Heart”. Or if you like to do things the 1930s way, feel free to read it instead.

What no one tells you about video readings is that they are tricky bastards. 

Now I’m not shy. The camera is my friend. I like to ham it up on occasion. 

Yet having to read anything more than 200+ words and make it all the way through without so much as a stutter is challenging. I won’t pretend it isn’t.

Over two days, I went through numerous clothing changes, switched positions, changed inflection, to get it just right. Basically, I fumbled my way through it like a drunk freshmen on prom night, slurring my words and grasping for bra straps. The worst part of all of it is nearly making it all the way through the reading and then it all goes FUBAR with one misread.

So many takes. So many tries. Much cursing ensued.  And because of all these video-reading shenanigans I thought a blooper reel was in order. 

Enjoy it here: 

And again, big, for-real-real thanks to Connotation Press and Meg Tuite for not forcing me to wear a paper bag over my head as I read. Thank you!