Ashley Perez reviews California Prose Directory edited by J Ryan Stradal for The Rumpus and gives a little love to my short story “Kessler Has No Lucky Pants.” In case you missed it, California Prose Directory collects some really strong work by West Coast writers, including Wendy C. Ortiz, Joshua Mohr, Sean Carswell, Amelia Gray, Rob Roberge, Jerry Stahl, David Ulin, Zoë Ruiz, Colin Winnette and many others.
Last month I accepted the position of online fiction editor at LitroNY, the U.S. online offshoot of Litro, a literary, arts and culture magazine based in the UK. I’ve been reading Litro for a few years now and published a short story called “The Fall of Berlin (Oil on Canvas)” in a special themed issue on Germany. So far I’ve published stories by Lou Gallo and James Reich and have accepted a few more. Right now I’m scheduling new stories every week but would like to increase that. What am I looking for? Here’s my introduction but for an online reading experience I generally like dense fictions if they’re short (less than 1,000) and a more sparse style if the story is long (over 2,500). So check it out and send me something slick, brutal and weird…