My story, “A Healing Place,” is out in the April 2010 edition of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.

You didn’t know I was Southern? Well, I guess my Southern Legitimacy Statement proves it.

By the way, the April edition of The Dead Mule has one of their biggest fiction issues ever, along …

The recent health care “debate” had both the blue team AND the red team stooping to lows of hysteria and vitriol, getting Americans riled up rather than taking advantage of an opportunity for understanding and education. So it is refreshing to see someone take the latter path, rather than the …

Though you should be familiar with Beowulf, the 8th century Anglo-Saxon heroic epic that has influenced Western thought and storytelling for centuries, you’ve probably never read John Gardner’s Grendel–it’s Beowulf from Grendel’s perspective.

This version is wonderful, not only because of the …