Where’s the South-Louisiana Literature?
I wrote two books in 2021, because I didn’t like the answer to that question. Join the mailing list to help.
My Mission, your Call to Arms.
Create Louisiana Literature. Spark a Revolution
There’s a great storytelling tradition in Louisiana. Kate Chopin, Walker Percy, John Kennedy Toole, John Ed Bradley, Earnest Gaines, Anne Rice. But, where have all the writers gone?
I believe the new generation of great Louisiana writers are probably hiding in plain sight. My mission is to draw them out. Why? Because the world needs more Louisiana literature.
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E1| The Asian Cajun | Horace and Mei Get Married | 3rd Installment
The heat wave of South Louisiana in summertime felt like a hair dryer in a steamy bathroom. It smothered them both and saturated their clothes. But Horace was loving it. He was home. There was a joyous quality to the butterflies fluttering in his still not quite settled stomach. It had transitioned from a kindContinue reading “E1| The Asian Cajun | Horace and Mei Get Married | 3rd Installment”
E1| The Asian Cajun | Horace and Mei Get Married | 2nd Installment
A few years prior–it must’ve been 1996–his sister Diedra had cracked open another can of Dr. Pepper for him as Horace sat at the card table where they usually ate their Hamburger Helper. He was cramming for finals, graduation the following week the prize he was attempting to earn. But Horace was a mess. HeContinue reading “E1| The Asian Cajun | Horace and Mei Get Married | 2nd Installment”
E1, The Asian Cajun | Horace and Mei Get Married
He was jet lagged, hungover, and he’d been wearing the same pair of drawers for going on something like 36 hours. But Horace was a seasoned traveler by now, and he’d read his Douglas Adams, so he had his towel in the backpack at his feet, and he also had his new wife, Mei, inContinue reading “E1, The Asian Cajun | Horace and Mei Get Married”
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Tattoos and Tans
July 2021
Tattoos, drugs, sex, intrigue, beautiful women, vengeful dudes, cloak and dagger.
All Saints Day of the Dead
October 2021
Cajun music, pretty girls, psychedelics, a dead college boy.
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