A Suitable Match, a new Basil Rosa story featured in The Bloomin' Onion

           Too cruel is life to those aged beyond their years.

A sincere and humble thank you to editors Daniel Groves, and Leah Harter at The Bloomin' Onion for featuring my Basil Rosa story, A Suitable Match, in the November 15th, 2025 issue of their magazine.

Here is a direct link: https://www.thebloominonion.com/featured-story-4

And here's a link to the The Bloomin' Onion home page: https://www.thebloominonion.com/short-stories-home

Lastly, to provide a taste, here is the story's opening paragraph:

A Suitable Match

by Basil Rosa

Cruelty and the teen experience are often synonymous, and Najam’s harelip and long hooked nose made him an easy target. I didn’t know if he was devout, nor did I doubt he felt like an outsider. When I asked my daughter Georgina about him, she replied with a note of defensive incivility, sounding a lot like Clare, her mother, that organized religion was never what anybody’s God had in mind. I could no longer make Georgina attend mass or pray for Najam. Neither could Clare. Accepting limitations is one of those difficult lessons each parent learns.

The Uroboros Mirror, a new Basil Rosa story published in The Bloomin' Onion

 

A new Basil Rosa story, The Uroboros Mirror, is now available in Issue Number Two of the online magazine, The Bloomin' Onion. Many thanks to Editor-in-Chief, Daniel Groves.

https://www.thebloominonion.com/the-ouroboros-mirror-issue-two

Here, to wet your whistle, is the first paragraph:

The Uroboros Mirror

—Basil Rosa—

In the 1980s, while wearing red leather pants, it hit me—I was a girl in a man’s body. Bopping about, my hair spiked and dyed peacock blue, a ring in one nostril, I wanted to be Cindy Lauper. I kept my Sony Walkman and earbuds on, determined never to conform or lose the humor and optimism my favorites songs delivered, though I vacillated between “Cruel Summer” by Bananarama, and Funboy Three’s “The Lunatics Are Taking Over The Asylum.”

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