"206" published by Penmen Review!

Greetings all,

I wanted to share the first story that I was able to have properly published. "206" is a little piece of flash fiction that is heavily influenced by my own grief and journey across the United States. It found a home with Southern New Hampshire University's literary journal The Penmen Review. I just so happen to be a student at SNHU and so it feels appropriate that my first real line was cast in its waters.

You can read "206" here.

An excerpt:

There is a term used in support groups to describe a sudden onset of extreme emotion. When the dam of composure that you so carefully built comes crumbling down and there is nothing that can withstand the raging rapids of your own despair. The Grief Share hosted in room 206 that your father attended calls this phenomenon a grief attack. Similar to an anxiety attack, panic attack, or any other emotional affliction that causes your own body to hold you at gunpoint, the grief attack is exactly as it sounds. It strikes from the shadows, like a rogue in an alley late at night. It wrangles you to the ground, force-feeding you that undercooked chicken that last gave you food poisoning.