 Honored to have a new piece of flash fiction, "Eerie Moan," on Jerry Jazz Musician, a venerable site devoted to our national music. Special thanks to Joe Maita, editor, and Duke Ellington, inspiration.
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 "Bumping into Bonnie," another piece of the NYC puzzle, on Bookends Review. Many thanks to the BR team, esp editors Jen McConnell and Jordan Blum.
7/19/2021 0 Comments Surviving Suicide I'm honored to have three new poems included in Surviving Suicide, the excellent anthology just released by Nirala Press, in company with such celebrated writers as Ravi Shankar, Karen Corine Herceg, Yogesh Patel, Yuyutsu Sharma, and many others. I offer one of my poems here (below).
Multiple Attempts on Dark Hollow Road, Friday Nights in Winter (for Tommy Walters) The way you drove in snowstorms, the way the tires lost their grip at the bend the way we spun and spun and spun right into oncoming cars the way you laughed that laugh that laugh that crossed between scream and manifesto and the way that drivers in the oncoming cars panicked the way they honked their horns and flashed their brights and cut their wheels the way they raised their arms as if those might stop you coming on and on and on. And the way we spun right past them every time right on past them every time and coasted down to Main Street at the hill’s bottom and swung a U and turned back up Liberty Avenue to do it again. And the way you rejoiced, pounding the steering wheel, shouting, “Did you see his fucking face!” which of course I did-- the sheer terror, the split-second awareness that this time was the time and how there was never enough time to get it all together, to get it all in order to prepare for this time, this exact time that he knew was coming, knew all along was coming, the way we all know that it’s coming, we know it all the time. What he couldn’t know was how perfectly you were in control. Every time. How could he? How could you? How could I? SURVIVING SUICIDE 32 7/6/2021 0 Comments Parentheticals Goes GreekStarting July 5, every two days for two weeks, stories from my collection (in progress) Parentheticals appear in Planodion Literary Journal's "Bonsai Stories" in Greek. About translating the stories, the brilliant writer/translator/educator Dr. Vasilis Manousakis writes, "From Patti Smith to Magritte and from Winona Ryder to the Rolling Stones, Tim's flash stories are captivating, both in terms of language and themes. I wanted to know what would happen next, I wanted to be in this world, I wanted to be a parenthetical hero, a hero of the mundane meeting someone famous. The humor, the irony, the everydayness, and the richness of the experience at the same time, make these stories an essential reading! On behalf of the editors of Planodion, I would like to thank you, Tim, for the above prologue to the stories (appearing only in Planodion for the first time) and for the interview. But mostly, for the stories themselves and the experience of translating them!" I am deeply honored to appear in Planodion, and deeply grateful for Vasilis's generous comments. απολαμβάνω!
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