my ekphrastic flash "head of the household' resurrected

Matt Kendrick, whose flash and essays and craft columns I admire, did the SmokeLong Challenge and chose COTTON XENOMORPH as his flash magazine. He posted my creepy ekphrastic flash "Head of the Household" as one of his "all-time favorite" ekphrastic flash. I've written quite a lot of ekphrastic essays and flash, but I think it might be my favorite too. (Also the Joseph Cornell essay, partly because it went through so many iterations.)

Getting lots of love from discerning readers for my new lyric essay "A Wild Goose Chase." It helps in this absolutely shitty time in the history of the USA.

I see I've been using this column mostly to count successes. Maybe because I know I'll need the psychological reinforcement later. Maybe because counting not-successes makes me nervous. What if a prospective publisher sees that something they're considering was rejected elsewhere? Will it influence them? Lots of rejections of my current flash at the moment. I managed to rally myself and send out a lot yesterday.

Dorothea Tanning's "Portrait de famille," which inspired "Head of the Household"