Lucky me, just when I decide to start a blog on my new website, the super people at Split Lip Magazine publish one of my short stories from my forthcoming collection Monsters in Appalachia. "Robbing Pillars" is the featured fiction selection this week. Check out this excerpt:"Maiden Estep leads the Red Hat into Number Six at Bear Town, where the mine starts. They walk at first, back to the crawl, miles deep inside, under the town of Grundy. Already, they have cut a strip in both directions, and