Tallulah, A Short Story Published In StylusLit, Issue 12

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.

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

A thank you to Gershon Maller, Editor, and his colleagues for their support. 

Mr. Gershon is a poet, editor of academic and literary texts, and a member of the Institute of Professional Editors. In addition to a First-Class Honours degree in Philosophy (La Trobe University), he holds an MPhil in Creative Writing, and a PhD in Literary Studies (University of Queensland). His research theses explored the works of J.L. Borges and Wallace Stevens, respectively. His doctorate was examined with distinction at U.C. Berkeley. He was awarded a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Queensland where, in addition to the Queensland University of Technology, he taught narratology. He is the author of two poetry collections and one in progress.

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

Below is the story's first paragraph.

Tallulah

 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....