Just the other day, the 14th
of July as a fact, I had a chance to read one of my short stories at Malvern Books
at an event celebrating the release of the Ocotillo Review published by
Kallisto Gaia Press.
My offering was a short story “The
Specter From the Hall” that I wrote, primarily for my cousins, after attending the
funeral of my cousin, Raymond Callaway Jones, Sr. over in College Station just
a few years ago.
At a particular point in the
service: “the pastor mentioned that most funeral home people he had been
associated with were a little quirky. This little comment set me to thinking back, to my earliest
recollection of my cousin.” That’s where the stream of consciousness begins,
never to return to even a modicum of solitude again.
More than several of my
friends from my writers groups and a few from the Writers League of Texas
attended. I was tickled to see each and every one of them. It’s always a moment
of pride to get up behind the podium, scan the audience, and find several familiar
faces.
There’s a fine mixture of the
three elements of the Ocotillo Review contained in the initial offering:
Fiction (6), Flash Fiction (11), Poetry (23) and Truth (or NonFiction) (4), and
Experimental (1) by 45 authors. Many of the authors were there to debut their
offerings.
I have several copies
available. But if you like, you can place your order for an edition here:
I assure you, you will not be disappointed.
