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New short story – Akiko’s Last Fight

February 21, 2018 by Mud Flat Press

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.

Anatomy of a Story

May 25, 2022January 3, 2018 by Alec Clayton

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