Menda City Review just published my short story, “Snake.” This story has had a long road. I composed the first draft back when I was working on my MA in fiction at Johns Hopkins, sometime during early 2007; it came in bloated and huge at something like 8,000 words. Two years later, after losing almost half its word weight and accumulating a healthy pile of rejection slips from a healthy assortment of publications, it found its home. I’m happy with it, and happy to see it out there.
I must say that Terry Rogers, Menda City Review’s editor, was both insightful and on-target in the comments and suggestions he had on this piece, and it was a pleasure to work with him.
You’ll find “Snake” on the MCR website here: http://mendacitypress.com/10.2009Pazmino.html.