Just got notified that my short story, "The Stronger," will be published this Spring in the 2011 edition of the Bacopa Literary Review, a print journal out of Gainesville, FL.
"The Stronger" is the title story of my 4-story collection that I privately call the Papaw Project. Back in 2007, I found stashed carefully in a trunk several short memoir story-sketches my grandfather had written in the 1930s, sketches which thinly fictionalized his family legends and his own experiences growing up as a bookish farm boy in Southern Indiana just before World War I.
Some quality of half-seen treasure in these sketches called out to me, the middle-aged granddaughter. I chose four of them and took the fictionalizing further. Fiction is not only the lie that tells the truth, it is the lie that reveals the truth. I have now finished 2 stories, am rewriting a third, with the fourth in outline, waiting.
And now the title story will see the light of day! Thank you, Bacopa Literary Review! I will be back here with more information about where this journal can be purchased.
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