“Learning to Drive” to Appear in Underground Voices: 2013 Print Anthology

“Underground Voices, which for my money is one of the best zines for cutting-edge, subversive, urban fiction…” —Joe Clifford, Author of Junkie Love

“Learning to Drive” to Appear in Underground Voices Print Anthology, Dec. 2013

I had a nice online chat with artist/poet/writer/reviewer Rachel J. Fenton, who offered me some free wisdom: she could only be who she was, and she wouldn’t be “branded.” I took that to mean I, too, could mix it up: write about baby bottles with curdling milk one day—a white pebble promise from a clear plastic vial the next. In literature, they used to call it diversity.

In this Lit Game I am “Learning to Drive,” got hundreds more names I still need to earn. And if tomorrow I go back to playing Scrabble, all counter-clock wise, then at least I know them times behind counters paid off: Smiling, I serve you “cutting-edge, subversive, urban fiction.”

I’ll make a stanza sensitive tomorrow.

Publication Notes: Special thanks to the editors of Underground Voices, Cetywa Powell and Jim Tucker for digging through the Red Ghost Slush Pile with a tweezer.  Michael, Meg, Stephanie, Evan: Saturday detention was a blast!  And at the risk of dating myself, “It was a banner fuckin’ year at the old Bender family…smoke up Johnny!”