Mud Flat Press is thrilled to announce the publication of Angels Sleep Alone by James Robert Peery. Peery was my uncle and perhaps the person most responsible for inspiring me to become a writer. We’ve been working on it since July 2020 when his granddaughter sent us the manuscript. It was typed on a manual … Read more
The latest short story published on Mud Flat Press is “Akiko’s Last Fight” by Alec Clayton. It is a rewrite of a story first published by Creative Colloquy. Akiko is a former women’s boxing champion coming out of retirement to challenge the woman who took away her title and her husband. Read it here.
A few years ago I told a story at Story Oly, Olympia’s monthly story slam, about my adventures and misadventures while hitchhiking to New York from Mississippi in 1973. Folks laughed a lot at the story, so I wrote it as a short story for Creative Colloquy and read it at a couple of their … Read more