A friend wrote just this week:

I’m looking forward to Streets of Nashville. I’m confident I’ll spend some time on a top-drawer Whiskey review for that one if it’s even in the ballpark of your previous work. I still recommend A Twilight Reel every chance I get.

Published May 27, 2021

This book of stories was more than twenty-five years in the making. I began it while working on my Master of Arts in English at Western Carolina University under the direction of Rick Boyer (before Ron Rash landed at WCU). Three stories–“The Wine of Astonishment,” “Overwinter,” and “A Poster of Marilyn Monroe”–appeared in my WCU master’s thesis in 1995. The work continued until I finished the final story–“Witness Tree”–in May 2019.

Many of the stories were published as stand-alones through the intervening years:

  • “Overwinter” (Yemassee 1997)
  • “The Wine of Astonishment” (Short Story 2000)
  • “A Poster of Marilyn Monroe” (Pisgah Review 2005)
  • “The Flutist” (Yemassee 2014)
  • “The Invisible World around Them” (The Chaffin Journal 2014)
  • “Two Floors above the Dead” (Tampa Review 2017)
  • “Conversion” (Still: The Journal 2021)

Thanks to Andy Reed, Pisgah Press, and all who have supported A Twilight Reel over it’s 1,039 days in the world through review, purchase, reading, and on and on. It means a lot.