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 […]
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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 […]
Praise for Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night
“Tracy DeBrincat’s audacious stories are all skewed angles and acrobatic language. Her characters, hungry for the authentic, don’t necessarily find it where we’d think to look. The character who says she’s ‘naked as a lark’ pretty much illustrates DeBrincat’s unpredictable style: candid, original – a lark! – and rich with anti-sentimental feeling.” – Rosellen Brown, […]
What is Bigfoot Lives!?
Bigfoot Lives! intends to describe life’s shiny moments. Not miracle of birth- or other commonplace expression of hope-shininess. But shiny in the way of events that shimmer sadly, grotesquely gorgeous dreams or happenings that are otherwise impossible to explain. Like Bigfoot, such events may exist only in your mind. But these are the moments that […]
My Book Cover Has Been Judged!
The contest is over and the voters have been clear: Literal Literature (aka Cottonball Moon) is the hands-down thumbs-up favorite dust jacket for “Moon Is Cotton & She Laugh All Night!” Overall tallies are: 1 – Outside – 11 My husband Carl Peel took this photo in some big park in Mexico City. I like […]