A few years back, I spent a week in Peru with a bunch of other people from LA looking to experience spiritual encounters of the shamanic kind. We traveled in a small bus on narrow roads that switchbacked across the craggy peaks above Cuzco. We marveled at the massive umbrella of sky above peaks jagged […]
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Art from Art Anthology
My story Call It A Hat will appear in the upcoming Anthology Art from Art, edited by Stephen Soucy. Selected stories are works based on other works of art. My story is about a woman considering a marriage proposal. My favorite sentence: If Alistair spoke, she would have no choice but to listen, for beneath […]
Quiddity Intl Literary Journal
My story Gneiss will be published in Quiddity, an International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program out of Benedictine University at Springfield, IL. I thought I should probably learn what “quiddity means,” since it might have something to do with the kinds of stories they publish, so here it is: the real nature or essence of […]
Read an Excerpt
Excerpt from SUPERBABY SAVES SLUGVILLE By the time my little brother showed up, everyone was pretty much sick and tired of the whole baby thing. The Teamsters were on strike, so our dad was walking picket lines up and down the California coast instead of delivering meat to North Beach and Chinatown butcher shops in […]
Press Release
Subito Press is proud to announce the publication of Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night by Tracy DeBrincat “Moon is cotton & she laugh all night,” whispers the hippo to the gazelle after rescuing her. And so the characters in this astonishing collection attempt to save themselves and others with prayers and […]
Unicorn in Burbank
After work, I drive home through Burbank’s equestrian neighborhood. I like to peek into the back yards with their traditional stables. I like to smell hay and manure from the parking lot at Pavilions. I drive slowly, keeping an eye out for horses clopping down the sycamore-lined streets. One evening as I waited at an […]