I’m delighted to share that my story “Burning Bush” has just been published in Issue Forty-Seven of the always-exciting magazine Bending Genres!

I’m thrilled and honored to be in such terrific company — with new work by Kim Magowan, Francine Witte, Glen Pourciau, and many more bold, brilliant voices pushing the boundaries of form and feeling.

A bit about the magazine: Bending Genres is a vibrant literary journal devoted to hybrid, experimental, and genre-defying writing. Since its launch, it has carved out a home for the strange, the surreal, the emotionally raw, and the stylistically adventurous.

Burning Bush is a surreal, absurd story about forbidden desires and passion set within a strange, heightened religious world. It begins:

“Knot your neckties. Thick as the bishop’s handshake. The smell of starch starching the air. Welcome to Sunday.”

There’s fire. Ritual. A bishop who spits flame. Worship, confusion, longing — and perhaps a little Anne of Green Gables.

You can read it now at Bending Genres:
Burning Bush

And while you’re there, I encourage you to dive into the rest of Issue 47 — it’s full of wild, inventive, and moving work that defies easy categorization.

Thanks for reading — and for supporting the strange.