
Family: Three Chapters
After she was married for four years and no children seemed to be coming, my mother did what any good Catholic girl in the 1960s would do: she prayed to the Blessed Mother. She promised if she had a little girl, she’d name her Elizabeth Ann, for Mary’s cousin and ... Read More

Everywhere Are Dirt Roads
Gaborone, Botswana, HIV clinic. Everywhere are dirt roads. Even when there is a concrete road, dirt invades the edges and blows across like leaves. Dust flies into your eyes and cloaks your ankles and is a bitch to get off even with thick soap and the toughest washcloth. Cattle moo and ... Read More

Mr. Kim
Chuseok fell in early September that year. In Korea, it is a day for families to gather together and celebrate. Like Thanksgiving, it is a harvest festival, but unlike Thanksgiving, it lasts three days instead of one. Since it is a major holiday, Wonderland, the school in which I was teaching, ... Read More

The Dream Catcher
Gray, of Gray’s Agency, sat at his desk, the neon sign outside flashing, rain dripping against the window. It was dusk. He heard the door down the hallway open, and looked up to see a man in a mackinaw on his threshold. His face was sharp with shadows. “My name ... Read More

EVENTS | 12/12/2015, 7:00 PM @ KGB Bar | BEDLAM: New Work by Women Writers curated by Lillian Ann Slugocki
I'm having a party to celebrate the launch of my novella, How to Travel With Your Demons (an Eckleburg Book Club selection!), published by Spuyten Duyvil Press-- and I've invited some of my favorite writers to join me: Laurie Stone, Stephanie E. Dickinson, Deborah Oster Pannell and Christen Clifford. Books, ... Read More

Rue de Fleurus Salon & Reading Series | New York in April
Rue de Fleurus began in 2013 by Eckleburg so we could hang out with the authors, artists and musicians we love. Come join us. You might fall in love, too. The Rue de Fleurus Salon began in 2012, New York City, at Brazenhead Bookstore, owned by the always hospitable, Michael Seidenberg ... Read More

Join Eckleburg and Rae Bryant at the Three Rooms Press Have a NYC2 Launch | 5-3-13, 6PM, Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC
Join our own Rae Bryant as she joins Three Rooms Press and a host of talented writers for the official Have a NYC2 book launch at Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC this Friday, 6PM! ... Read More