MY BOOKS:
Simple Pleasures published by ELJ Publications in 2015 (See Blurbs Below)
(My small publisher above just went out of business. You can still buy the kindle version there [wonder where that money goes?], but, for the time being, if you’d like a signed super-awesome paper copy for $15 just email me at labazro@yahoo.com.)
(Review of Simple Pleasures on American Microreviews and Interviews)
Pan published by Mead/Hill in 2015
Anthologies I am included:
“The Crush,” Flash in the Attic Anthology 2, 44 Very Short Stories
“Catch What Falls,” Paddle Shots Anthology
“Black Crickets,” Paddle Shots Anthology, Vol. 2
Below are places you can read my work online.
“Melton’s Jam,” Abyss and Apex
“If Not Affection,” Bull Men’s Fiction
“Returning to Hallways,” Tulsa Voice, Flash Fiction Contest Runner Up
“The End of Reasoning,” The EEEL
“The Head,” Queens Mob’s Teahouse
“The Bend,” Queens Mob’s Teahouse
Work published in print only:
“Clamped,” Coal City Review
“Foundered,” Appalachian Heritage (updated to their website, so now you read HERE.)
“In the Highest Limbs,” The Fiddlehead
“Cold Kneecaps,” 491 Poetry & Art #9
Book Reviews:
A Review of Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane, Austin Review
Paul Harding Explores the Haunting Pit of Grief in His Second Novel, Enon, Austin Review
Interviews:
Interview with Melissa McDaniel for The EEEL
Interview with Tatiana Ryckman for Written in Small Places
Blurbs for Simple Pleasures:
Simple Pleasures marks the debut of A.W. Marshall’s curiously addicting fiction. In Marshall’s stories hearts can literally be touched, actually–grasped, and a rolling Head can terrorize a town. Here the power of sex both attracts and repels: lovers fall off a dizzy perch among branches, a plunge that alters the lives of others for decades; the accidental glancing touch of two strangers binds them to an increasingly disorderly life of physical pleasure; and the confluence of a cache of pornographic drawings and mistaken identity allow a man to escape his dreary life. Surprises appear at nearly every turn in these intriguing, original stories, and Marshall orchestrates them beautifully.
—Philip Graham, author of How to Read an Unwritten Language and The Art of the Knock
Amidst the known and predictable elements of this world, A.W. Marshall’s fictions open up uncanny new spaces, ruled by the unexpected, the inexplicable. Thanks to mysterious encounters and turns of event, the very human characters in Simple Pleasures come to experience life as “weirder and full of more possibility” than before. I feel that way too after reading these stories, which startled and moved me with their mix of marvelous strangeness and genuine heartache. After a boy proves his claim that he can touch a girl’s heart—literally reach in and touch it—he muses, “‘Imagine if I can do this now, what I can do later.’” It’s hard not to wonder the same about Marshall himself, given the dark powers and brilliant promise he shows in this scary-good first collection.
—Ellen Lesser, author of The Shoplifter’s Apprentice and The Blue Streak
Simple Pleasures is a mysterium tremendum of stories like little boxes with secret drawers and hidden latches the reader opens with glee, trepidation, and increasing recognition that the great mysteries of existence are best mined in the small moments between humans.
—Mary Rickert, author of The Memory Garden and Map of Dreams
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