You can hear my eco-horror story “Discount Night at the Haunted Eco Lodge,” set in the Ecuadorian rainforest, on the podcast Scary Stories Whispered in the Rain.  When I came up with this title, it cracked me up, and I knew I had to bring it into being somehow.  Conjure it, you might say.  This is one of the writing projects I worked on during the worst of the COVID lockdowns.  Escapism at its finest, even if it meant the research involved picking up library books at a curbside table while fully masked, dreaming of faraway places while mostly trapped at home.  The story first appeared in the anthology Triangulation: Habitats, and it’s fun for me to hear it now read aloud. 

In poetry news, my “Ode on Keats’s ‘Ode on Indolence’” has been reprinted in The Hyacinth Review.  It first appeared in The Decadent Review.  I have to be honest about this one, I wrote it as an undergrad.  I had an assignment to write an essay about an ode, and I figured that the best way to show that I understood odes would be to try writing one.  This poem was the result (I’m happy to report that I got an A on the assignment and the professor read the poem to the class).  It took me years to work up the courage to send it out.  Don’t self-reject, my friends!