New fiction: ‘We’ll Always Have Shiloh,’ at THE MUSEUM OF AMERICANA

The trees cracked whips and they curtsied, too; they gave the victory sign and the peace sign, called for another round of that old soldier’s joy, and they gave God and other side the fine middle finger.

I have a new short story up at the literary review the museum of americana. You can read it here—and at just over 900 words, it’s like one of those Little Millers in the pony bottles, done before you know it.

“We’ll Always Have Shiloh,” is the third published piece adapted from my picaresque novel about a Mississippi Delta folk artist named Ivy Coldwater. Ivy first appeared in “I’ll Take You There,” on Harper Perennial’s Fifty-Two Stories site, in 2012. In December, she was back in “Sources of Outlaw Country,” in Eucalyptus Lit.

The full novel, long completed and described (by me) as a cross between a spiritual journey and a beer run, is currently titled THE COLDWATER GIRL, and will be published someday, I solemnly hope.