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THE ART OF SHORT FICTION What is it? Author Charles Blackstone tells.

WRITING GREAT SHORT STORIES Elizabeth Kadetsky who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at Columbia University’s School of Journalism serves up some advice.

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CRAFTING CHARACTERS THAT JUMP OFF THE PAGE Punching up your fiction? Where there's a tipster, there's a way. Discover Robert Gregory Browne's secrets to getting multiple book deals.

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BIOFICTION INTRODUCED Even as she receives 5 stars on Amazon for Trine Erotic while editing/publishing Entelechy: Mind & Culture, Alice Andrews takes time to chat about the esoteric world of this mind-bending read.

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“Duotrope Digest ”

"...think of Duotrope’s Digest as a matchmaker of sorts. If you write fiction or poetry, we can help you find appropriate markets for your work."
--Shannon Wendt, Duotrope creator

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Homecoming

For Aubrey Ray Williams

by Bill Brocato

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I sleep late into an early Spring afternoon
beneath falling cherry blossoms and butterflies
drifting on an April's warm salty breeze.
I awaken to a cadence horse's hooves
dancing across a barren prairie sky.
I glimpse a tall shadow rising, a dust devil
wearing my brother's worn leather jacket
his fierce blue eyes closed against the wind.
I taste his urgency, sweet chromium on
my silent tongue.
His youth, a carnival of boyish
taunts led him to other continents,
countries, where he traded bullets for dollars,
pennies for bread.
An acrobat he came home some life lost
from his eyes.
A fall perhaps,
a missed grasp crippled his heart,
they say.

Bill Brocato is founder and publisher of The Houston Literary Review. Before launching his webzine in late 2005, Bill wrote and edited for a variety of newspapers, wire services, magazines, and business intelligence publications.
Bill has had a life-long love affair with poetry, short stories, novels, and visual art and launched his literary-zine to offer artists in Southeast Texas and beyond an opportunity to test their creative voices as well as offer readers a glimpse of accomplished works.

His professional journalism experiences have taken him to Zambia, India, Indonesia, Japan, China, Thailand, Eastern and Western Europe. For the past 10 years, Bill has written investigative stories covering the energy commodities markets and investigated the financial standing of oil and gas companies. Bill was a member of the Foreign Correspondents’’ Club of Japan, and served a term as editor where he saw the redesign and launch of the press club’s publications.

After returning to his home in Houston, Texas in 2005, Bill enrolled in an MBA program in Global Management at the University of Phoenix’s main campus in Houston. He will complete his graduate studies by summer’s end.

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