SMFS Members Published in Vautrin - Volume 5, Issue 1, Fall 2023

 

Several SMFS list members are published in the new issue, Vautrin - Volume 5, Issue 1, Fall 2023. Edited by Todd Robins, the print issue is available at Watermark Books and Café. The SMFS list members in the issue are:

 

Jeff Esterholm with “Tollund Man.”

 

James D.F. Hannah with "Murder Ballad."

 

Rob D. Smith with “Our Most Sorrowful Mother of the Blessed Hardwood.”

 

Website Description:

This issue features seedy goings-on at a Spanish Colonial pile, a lawyer’s scrap with a London tabloid, an old guy who’s haunted by a ghost, and a town team baller with a Napoleon complex. These scenarios, a labor strike right out of today’s headlines, and much more in Vautrin Fall 2023.

 

Table of Contents

 

Fiction

Nick Kolakowski, Back to Hell House

Jen Conley, They’re Coming for You, Baby

Saira Viola, Seven Red

Rob Smith, Our Most Sorrowful Mother of the Blessed Hardwood

Jeff Esterholm, Tollund Man

Lyz Mancini, Sugarhigh

Michael Maiello, Deb Needs Braces

Ilyn Welch, In a Snap

Michael A. Gonzales, Brazil

James D.F. Hannah, Murder Ballad

 

Poetry

Scott Richard, The King Queen of Sixth Street

 

Book Review

Tim Hennessey on Lew Berney’s novel, Dark Ride

 

Photography by Hannah Miner

 

Design by Beth Golay