Issue 12 of Rhapsoidia (whose site is down due to their temporary hiatus, but which used to be, and might one day be again, www.rhapsoidia.com) is out, and my story, “Yell Alley,” is in it. Unfortunately, due to their site being down, the issue is difficult to get one’s hands on, but the zine is overall an interesting read, and I’d say it’s worth finding. Let’s hope their hiatus is, as they say, a temporary one, and they’ll be back on track with issue #13 soon.

Thanks to Sheryl Tempchin, editor of Zahir, who has nominated “Pieces of Scheherazade” for next year’s Pushcart Prize. Results of the nomination will be available in late April, and the annual anthology The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses will be published in the autumn of 2007.

My second published short story, “Yell Alley,” will appear in Rhapsoidia #12, due out in November 2006. Thanks to Jennifer Redelle Carey, Rhaps fiction editor, who promised she would cry if the story had been accepted elsewhere.

Zahir #9 is out.

Check it out here or buy it from Amazon.

My short story “Pieces of Scheherazade” will appear in Zahir #9 , edited by Sheryl Tempchin. The issue’s set to appear sometime in February 2006.