I've been lucky to have a lot of pieces published the past two months. Two of the most recent have been "The Scout" and "The Thing about a Brain."
"The Scout" was published at Schuylkill Valley Journal Online on July 15. It's my experiment in trying to get into the head of a man who nearly kidnapped me (and probably would have raped and murdered me) one summer day in 1985 while I tossed a baseball to myself off a brick wall near my home. He just walked right up and told me he was a scout with the Cincinnati Reds. Most of the rest, not all but most of it, is in the piece.
"The Thing about a Brain" was published at Triggerfish Critical Review for its Issue 26. I've wanted a piece published there since 2009. They consistently publish good pieces and also good critical reviews of those pieces. It's a really unique approach; contributors volunteer to write short critical reviews on two or three other pieces in that issue. This means that most of the contributors will have their piece looked at and written about several times for the issue. Truly a generous and creative way to fully engage people in your journal. I also love the name of the journal.
