I'm pleased to announce my story "The Loss of the Whaling Ship Pequod" is now live on the Blue Lake Review site. Here's a link: https://bluelakereview.weebly.com/the-loss-of-the-whaling-ship-pequod.html Many thanks to Blue Lake's Editor, Mitchell Waldman, and to Will Allison, who edited the story. Yes, there is a Moby Dick reference here, but the story isn't really about whaling. #AlanBray #BlueLakeReview

appy Halloween. My story "Already She Was Root" is live on the Eclectica site. The whole issue is great; many thanks to Tom Dooley and congr

My story "Refrain" has won Honorable Mention in Glimmertrain's Fiction Open Contest. I'm very happy, Glimmertrain is one of the top literary

I'm delighted to say that Eclectica, an on-line journal, will publish my story "Already She Was Root" on October 31st—Halloween.

tephanie Hopkins and IndieBrag have just posted a short piece of mine on the Layered Pages site. It concerns how I think about writing chara