New Fiction in Heavy Feather Review: "Everything Is Good Here, Too"

Excited to see my story, "Everything Is Good Here, Too" post today at Heavy Feather Review. Thanks so much to Jason Teal and everyone at HFR for the incredible product they put out:

"Everything here is alive, tense with waiting. Every take-out container, every trash bag is quiet in worry. You burrow a place to sleep in your old bed, between Thanksgiving decorations, economy-size paper towel packages, ground-bristled toothbrushes. Every consumer moment of your lives, after your father left, has been preserved, as if the presence of these things provides clues, as if their presence convinces your mom there will never again be loss."

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New Fiction at "Heavy Feather Review"

I am excited to have a short piece, "Everything is Good Here, Too," in the Heavy Feather Review 3.2, which includes work by Aaron Apps, J. Bradley, Austin Bunn, Erin Case, Sarah Elizabeth Colona, Rob Cook, Jennifer Davis, Jeremy Griffin, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Miles Klee, Dan Mancilla, Jeff Pearson, Jim Redmond, Timmy Reed, Ron Rege, Jr., Matt Sailor, Ben Segal, Phillip Gregory Spotswood, and Cristina Troufa.

You will handle it. You have handled nothing. You left at eighteen and you sent postcards. You wrote your phone number on letters, on monogrammed stationery. You transposed the last two numbers. You didn’t come home for holidays. You pretended you were contagious, you had the flu, you were leprous, you were positive, you were doing everyone a favor. Everything is great you wrote, and mom’s refrain, iambic, on kitten cards from Current, everything is good here, too.

To read more of "Everything is Good Here, Too," you can buy the print issue here. It's also available on Nook and Kindle.

Review of The Tide King at Heavy Feather Review

Merridawn Duckler writes a very astute review of The Tide King for Heavy Feather Review.

Magic and fantasy, the supra and the supernatural are having a good long run in modern fiction. I approve of blurred lines among genre but—grumpy cat impersonator that I am—nothing entrances me less than the promise that I shall be entranced....This grouchy intro is all by way of suggesting there is an alternative. One could write a novel with vivid, dimensional characters that are all kinds of human, caught up in a story that defies logic but not sense. For that experience you might want to read Jen Michalski’s wonderful, and yes, magical novel The Tide King.

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And as pieces fit into this sophisticated and brilliant puzzle of a novel, it is the stories that draw us in, as well as the real problems of characters we come to know through the writer’s skill.

My week has been made, and it's only Monday. ;) To read more, go here.