My new fiction is the finale story for this past month’s Weird Love feature on the Barrelhouse blog. “Sheila was startled when Walter slipped his hand down the front of her Levi’s. It was not what she was expecting in broad daylight, at a church picnic. His hand was a warm dry octopus in her […]
“I wanted to tell Vincent then about this time I was camping in Kentucky. It was cold and damp, and I’d planted trees, Colorado blue spruces, at my favorite spot on earth. A place called Creation Falls, which is where I’d decided I wanted to be when the world ended, if for no other reason […]
“I could see that you were a holy man, desperately holy, G-d crouched on your back with a mouthful of black earth, and the stink of love A holy man, which is to say, the loneliest man to ever purchase an avocado sandwich in a plastic box on a rainy and fish-bellied Florida afternoon…” Read […]
“It’s early on a Saturday night in December, already dark, and it’s so cold we can’t feel our faces. Boone and I are crunching ice beneath our boots, walking a pitbull named Dorothy. The dog isn’t mine, or Boone’s either. She belongs to a guy I just met, a guy with porno pin-ups in his […]
From Tell the Bees: “I listened to “No Aloha” one too many times, or I was exhausted by washing my hair and brushing my teeth maintaining this body like a pet” From We Are Very Beautiful: “You will remember later that my bruises were shaped like undiscovered continents I will remember later that your […]
“until I can remember what it felt like to (whisper it) cut. Being the blue cloudless & hands ghosting. Until I can feel 20,000 heartbeats under the sea, until I am a flagellate or a ciliate, until my blood don’t sing no more…” Read it here: Play Again
An outstanding review from Sheldon Lee Compton, with very kind words about my included story! “In Best Small Fictions, there are stories such as Anna Lea Jancewicz’s “Marriage” where the narrator likens marriage to combining ketchup from two half empty bottles to make one full bottle. Anyone who has worked in a small diner or […]
Not all of these books were published this year, although several are new releases. They’re just the best, in my opinion, of the stuff I happened to read this year. I recommend them all to you. 12. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle 11. Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller 10. Rat Girl […]
“Cecilia Cherry picked her nose. She picked it until it bled, and then she’d scrape at the scabs until it bled some more. Her nostrils were always ringed with a dark red crust. The other children in her third-grade class noticed, of course. They noticed also that she often made the mistake of tucking her […]
From The Tishman Review, the Orphans anthology, featuring work “orphaned” when the Revolution John site was deleted. My two pieces “Love Letters from the Devil” and “Every Fairy Tale Starts with a Dead Mother” are included. Available soon also on Amazon, order it here at Createspace: Orphans Anthology
Anna Lea Jancewicz 