I have tried to work with Bluehost my server gods here but the site is almost unusable due to no fault of my own. I have been a customer of theirs for over 15 years but I can’t work with a company that cant get a simple site like this to load. I am done giving them hundrends of dollars a year for this nonsense especially when I can do most things on socials. I have created a little free bio webpage for myself and to keep track of my writings and other creative endeavors here.

Also Mucky Mondays is already scheduled here till the site expires in July so you can try and fight this traffic nonsense that bluehost is doing with shared servers here or you can continue reading along with us at the new awesome quickly loading site.

I will lose a lot of stuff when this site goes down, over 15 years of writing about random things, but It’s time to stop feeding bluehost money for services that don’t work.

grateful to BLOOD & HONEY for being a place I can publish something like this. It’s pretty raw, I’m pretty proud of it.

let me tell you a secret

https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/let-me-tell-you-a-secret

New one out today. My poem Alone with Frida is in the first issue of Lunar Sea Literary. The challenge. All the authors in this edition were tasked with making something based off this excerpt from Kahlo’s journal
“No moon, sun, diamond, hands —

fingertip, dot, ray, gauze, sea.

pine green, pink glass, eye,

mine, eraser, mud, mother, I am coming.”

My poem is on page 10, which you can read for free here.https://lunarsealit.wordpress.com/lunar-sea-literary/issue-0/

I’ve had a new poem just drop at Oddball Magazine,
We Call Them Villains.

Lucky to have one at Pistol Jim Press for their One That Got Away call. It’s a micro crime story and set in a very familiar place to my younger days.

https://open.substack.com/pub/pistoljimpress/p/leaving-town-by-shawn-scott-smith?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6m38z3

New small #poem up at Five Fleas

https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2026/02/afternoon-of-february-12-2026.html

My short fiction Baton Rouge, La that I wrote when I saw Jonathan Borthwick’s amazing artwork. It’s a tribute to the deep south, college football and more. Thank you @icebreakers_lit for publishing it.

https://www.icebreakerslit.com/read/baton-rouge-la

Happy to have my poem Fear of Flying, intercontinental up at La Rotonde Review. You can read it for free At La Rotonde Review

Des grésillements retentirent et Juliette sursauta. Son manteau, usé et déchiré, la gênait dans sa marche rapide vers le récepteur.

” Allô ? Qui est à l’appareil ? Qui est là ? “

Le silence s’installa, et son espoir s’amenuisa, puis…

“Allô ?” une voix d’homme.”

” Allô, c’est George, nous sommes à Calais. Qui est à l’appareil ? “

Des larmes coulèrent sur les joues de Juliette. Elle n’était pas seule. Elle tremblait en parlant dans le microphone.

” C’est tellement bon d’entendre ta voix, George. “

Rare piece of nonfiction for me with the preorder of Act Your Age Volume 3 put out by Wild Ramp Publishing. This issue is about fandom across generations. My roots are in the fan space, and this call intrigued me. My piece is called A Sense of Wonder and it’s about how I fell into fandom, but also how my hope is that my son finds joy in the media he chooses and chooses love over despair, and maintains a sense of wonder in this world.

You can order a copy while available at Wild Ramp Publishing Shop.