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Friday, August 16, 2019

"Better" from Michael Chin's new short story collection YOU MIGHT FORGET THE SKY WAS EVER BLUE

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Joel won the third grade spelling bee. The prize: the right to name the class the goldfish. He called her Mother. When no one was looking...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

October needs to be kind of big here at Bent Country

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Come October this blog will officially turn 10 years old. A decade of writing and posting here. Help me plan something. Leave comments to ma...
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Guest Post: Why Write Stories by Michael Chin

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I write stories because I’m scared. Global warming is going to end the world if the president doesn’t do us in first. I’m powerless in these...
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Leslie Jamison quoting John Irving about the usefulness of sentimentality.

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"In a 1979 op-ed called “In Defense of Sentimentality,” John Irving examines the legacy of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol , stressing the...
Friday, August 9, 2019

Mike Lafontaine again sees something in one of my stories

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Mike Lafontaine has once again saw something in a story of mine that most everyone else missed. Nothing against the rest of you all, but Mik...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Gonzalo Baeza wrote about my book in The Observer

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Here's the link to read it: Read Gonzalo
Monday, July 8, 2019

It's a great day. I have a short story called "To the Cherokee Strip" in BULL Magazine.

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Bull Magazine is one of my absolute favorite journals. It was, and still is, a dream journal of mine. Beginning in 2009 I started submitti...