Wednesday, April 24, 2019

The Last Echo in "34th Parallel Magazine"

My latest short story, The Last Echo, has been published in 34th Parallel Magazine, yesterday actually.  Very glad to share this news and this magazine with you all.


From the teaser on the website--

"...Animals were not allowed in the Green Zone. What was this cat doing here? Animals in the closed-in-island-that-is-not-an-island of Baghdad were rounded up and disposed of, as per orders of the war contractor. The contractor said nothing about the burning embers of a Dell computer outside a bookstore or the irascible conscience of a junked Mercedes Benz—the ground beneath the car ringed by spreads of bullet casings. The smell of cordite, although thin, was ever present and unmistakable. Please don’t let that cat lead to bad luck, he thought...."


Link to the magazine's site: https://www.34thparallel.net

However, the link to purchase is below:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/34thparallel-magazine/34thparallel-magazine-issue-64-bw-print/paperback/product-24073622.html