Dan Ford’s trilogy will be released by Santa Fe Writer’s Project in 2016. We discussed his writing process, poetry, and prose. SL: Your novel, Ordination, the first in the Paladin trilogy, is set to publish with SFWP in 2016. How did you discover SFWP? DF:...
Only onions posed a problem. The mushy plums could go—buying them had carried over from when Maris was still in town. Bill would buy a pound or two, maybe forgetting she had left, or wanting to remind herself of her, as if that would help anything. Hell if he knew one...
She was tired, so, so tired. Her eyelids dragged, but she’d made it. She’d buckled the twins into their car seats, one and then the other; it took so damned long with two of them. She’d gone to the store and bought three bags of groceries — oh, god! She’d...
To Whom It May Concern: Joining the circus is not all cotton candy and clown cars. Please abide by the following rules. Thank you. – Management CIRCUS RULES: The Cannon is for the Human Cannonball not for garbage or undocumented workers. No matter how the old saying...
“Everything’s gone to hell,” Dad says. He’s called at his usual time—9:00 p.m. Tuesday—with a report of his annual physical. He talks of arthritis, his impending knee replacement, acid reflux. “The doctor’s here don’t know shit!” he yells, and I hold the phone farther...
Morton Vickery needed a friend. Not a wifely friend, he had one of those, nor a soft-handed friend for discussing the market, there were columns of those in his accountancy firm. What Morton dreamed of, as he stared in the mirror and pressed palms together to make his...
