Monday, June 12, 2023

Tallulah, A Short Story Published In StylusLit



In September, 2022, StylusLit, a bi-annual online literary journal based in Australia, published my short story Tallulah, in Issue #12. 

A thank you to Gershon Maller, Editor, and his staff at StylusLit for their support. 

You can find the story here: https://styluslit.com/fiction/tallulah

I shot the photo above using high speed film, no flash, only natural light in Manhattan, the Lower West Side, either Ninth or Tenth Avenue. The bar is long gone.

Here below is the story's first paragraph.

Tallulah

By John Michael Flynn

The wise among us know there are no rights. There are merely adjudications. This was Haroon Feisal Mohamed’s thought as he labored to steer Jumbo Cousins’ red van. Jumbo had insisted Haroon drive, and that they avoid Greenville and Hendersonville, opting instead for Route 23 North through Tallulah Falls and the gorge there. They’d then cross the Georgia state line into Waynesville and then drive Route 40 home to Asheville. Why? Because Haroon had to conquer his fear of Tallulah Gorge....

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