New Fiction: "Welcome Petsitter!" at Atticus Review

Delighted to have new flash fiction, "Welcome Petsitter!" at Atticus Review! Thanks to Michelle Ross and her team for giving this piece a home:

2. BATHROOMS - Please use the fan when you shower otherwise Quentin’s clothes (closet next to bathroom) get damp/mildew or whatever.

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Review of The Summer She Was Under Water at Atticus Review

Thanks to A. K. Small for this thoughtful review of The Summer She Was Under Water today at Atticus Review:

"Michalski packs a fascinating amount of material into four fictional days, all of which changes Sam’s perspective on life. Until this reunion, Sam had chosen to recoil from the nest, but the visit to the lake house wakes her. Michalski’s attention to detail and to the frail human psyche shines throughout these pages. There are no simple heroes or ogres here. Each character slips in and out of these polar opposite roles, exhibiting a complexity and depth, a beautiful gift in a novel. I also enjoyed the rich setting of the cabin, the lake holding its secrets, the parallels between what’s been drowned below the surface and what remains above it."

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Featured Writer, New Fiction, Atticus Review

So thrilled to be the featured author of the month in The Atticus Review. Jamie Iredell interviewed me about my forthcoming collection, From Here (Aqueous Books, September 30th), craft, and what affect my heritage and identity has on my writing:

Being gay has made me feel dislocated for a lot of my life–from participating in the same rituals–marriage, children–a lot of my friends have or having a relationship as a grown, sexual adult with your family (my grandfather still asked me on his deathbed when I was going to get married). For a long time I thought moving away, maybe to San Francisco, or another country, might make me want finally feel at “home,” and it took me a long time to realize that you need to be home wherever you are. I see a lot of my own struggles (trying to escape places, being caught between places, grudgingly accepting places) in the characters in this collection.

The folks at Atticus Review were also kind enough to publish some postcard stories I'd written about postcards (in celebration of the awesome "postcard" cover of From Here) and also postcard stories by Erin Fitzgerald, Judith Krummeck, Timmy Reed, Laura Ellen Scott, and Joseph Young. Finally, you can submit your own postcard and postcard story for a chance to win a copy of From Here and publication in The Atticus Review. All this good stuff can be found here.