October 7, 2022
I had a couple stories accepted recently and they should be out in the next few months. One called “The Brighter Flame” was accepted by Catamaran Literary Reader which is published in northern California. It describes to rediscover the magic of a former neighborhood with a friend he’d lost track of for a long time, with unforeseen consequences.
The other story is “Do Nothing Until You Hear From Me,” the title of which is taken from a famous jazz tune. It relates the dilemma of a divorced life coach whose own romantic problems threaten to overwhelm his professional knowledge. It will be published online at Carolina Quarterly out of Chapel Hill, NC.
THOMAS BENZ graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Notre Dame. He recently won the 2017 Serena McDonald Kennedy Award for a short story collection called “Home and Castle.” The book is to be published by Snake Nation Press in the fall. In the last several years, he has had fifteen stories (…read more)