The Dominant Animal, Kathryn Scanlan Miles From Nowhere, Nani Mun Welfare, Steve Anwyll Paperboy, Bob Thurber Signs Preceding the End of the World, Yuri Herrera Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion, Pasha Malla and Jeff Parker Duplex, Mike Nagel The Power of the Dog, Thomas Savage Everything is Totally Fine, Zac Smith The Man Suit, Zachary Schomburg OK, Goodnight, Emily Kendal Frey and Zachary Schomburg Liver Mush, Graham Irvin Billy Boy, Bud Shrake Claustrophobia, Surprise!, Evan Williams Don’t Know Tough, Eli Cranor In a Lonely Place, Dorothy B. Hughes I Saw the Light: The Story of Hank Williams, Colin Escott Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation, Erika Krouse City on Fire, Don Winslow Teenager, Bud Smith The Interrogative Mood, Padgett Powell  Small Moods, Shane Kowalski Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of a Mew Hollywood, Mark Harris Looney, Dave Housley Marigold, Troy James Weaver Hotel Alexandra, Rebekah Morgan Dead Solid Perfect, Dan Jenkins Will

 [The Means of Ascent, p. 173]

 [part of an ongoing project where I attempt to make erasure poetry out of every page from Robert Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson ]

In honor of National Pizza Day, here are a couple of recently published stories of mine that contain pizza: “Aristotle’s Afterthought”, Revolution John The pizzeria in this story is a thinly-veiled version of this place . To my knowledge this is the second work of short fiction that takes place in this restaurant. The first was a story I read about fifteen years ago in the Cimarron Review . The title and the name of the author escape me, although it was obvious the guy spent some time in Columbia, Missouri. The baseball game between the Cardinals and Astros in this story actually happened on August 22nd, 1986. Here is the box score, which lays out the remarkable game had by Cards hothead John Tudor. And here’s a video of the Galaga glitch . “Dear Entrepreneur”, The Daily Drunk My first ever attempt at flash. This was a fun one to write. It’s made up of reconstituted parts of a failed novelette that I’m in the process of breaking up into 3-4 smaller stories.  “Nobody likes cold pizza.

Every writer is going to have their own approach (or set of approaches) to the question of what constitutes a draft. These approaches might change with every phase of every project; the way that you wander through your first draft could be quite different from the way that you wander through your final. The hope, of course, is that your conception of drafting, whatever it is, can serve as a perch—a perception-changing post, slightly above the page, from which you’re better able to see your work and your process in a useful way. My personal approach is to avoid the question of drafthood for as long as I can. -Joseph Scapatello, What if all writing is just drafts forever? https://lithub.com/what-if-all-writing-is-just-drafts-forever/