Mud Flat Shorts

by Alec Clayton, Dawud Al-Malik, Jenni Prange Boran

31 stories (mostly fiction) by 19 writers from around the world: Dawud H. Al-Malik, Jenni Prange Boran, Jack Butler, Christian Carvajal, Alec Clayton, CK Combs, Keith Eisner, Ned Hayes, John Knold as Tracy Gunn, Megan Kruse, Meenu Madhavan, Shree Nath, Anne Nayer, James O’Barr, James Robert Peery, Jes Simmons, Samuel Snoek-Brown, James P. Stuart, and Ricker Winsor.

These stories range from contemporary drama to science fiction to the macabre, and each carries a strong sense of place—wherever that place happens to be. Sometimes the sense of place is a state of mind.

"In this rich treasure of weird stories you can smell the swampy dirt and feel the mystical humidity of broken, disturbed feelings in these tiny, very human characters." — Steve Schalchlin, songwriter/composer of The Last Session, The Big God or Merman? and New World Waking

320 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 29, 2022

About the author

Born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1943, I grew up in the Deep South and later moved to New York and later still to Olympia, Washington. I am a painter as well as a writer and continue to show in galleries in the Seattle and Tacoma areas. I write regular art and theater reviews for area newspapers. I am also a gay rights activist.
Although not autobiographical, the settings settings for my novels are the places where I have lived, and my personal involvement in the arts and glbt issues play a large role. My novels are self-published. My first two novels, "Until the Dawn" and "Imprudent Zeal," are about artists. "The Wives of Marty Winters," a work in progress, is about a newspaper editor and gay rights activist. All three are family sagas covering many decades.

Reviews

[Ned Hayes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great anthology with a spectrum of writers from the Pacific Northwest... and beyond.