For some reason I had a hellish break-up with February way back when I was a kid. I decided to whack it off the calendar
and let January meld fluidly into March. I grew up in Chicago and the weather always sucked (Sorry to break the news to those of you who weren’t privy to that and are heading to AWP with your bathing suits) and that whole Valentine’s day pressure as a kid to have some secret admirer that existed only in the demented minds of the advertising world and maybe some psycho stalker, who watched you in the halls and cafeteria in grade school and made it redundant to rent horror films when you were already living one. That being said, I have ended the stand-off as of this month at Connotation Press.
I am honored to have the superlative Michelle Reale as our featured writer for the mid-February issue. I have written a review of her latest chapbook, If All They Had Were Their Bodies, and she’s delved the deep waters in our exciting interview and sent us one of the inimitable stories from her collection, Some Cities, to publish.
Sheldon Lee Compton delivers three diverse micro-fiction pieces, yet each bearing the distinctive, memorable stamp of a Compton story in, “The Little Things,” “Dear John” and “Discovering Hutch Gavin.”
Tony Burnett pulls us in with his young, independent narrator in “Life Amended.” His characters are eccentric and endearing. A cross between an episode of Weeds and a Cohen brother’s film.
Cheryl Gardner offers up three exceptional micro-fiction pieces, “Unfiltered Ragweed,” “300 Days of Polyester Starshine” and “”Water Cooler Nu Allonge.”
Michael C. Keith haunts us with his unforgettable short story, “Infantasy.” Just try and put this one out of your head!
Sidney Brammer gives us a sublime triangle of characters in “Lost Pines.” It’s a gripping mystery that keeps us guessing throughout.
Enjoy the exquisite diversity of these six stellar fiction writers! Thank you, all, for sending Connotation Press some of your potent prose!