New Story: “The Best Thing”

After six years of sending it out, my short story "The Best Thing" has a home at Bull & Cross and was released this morning. Below is opening paragraph and a link to where you can access the whole story, free and ready for your reading pleasure. Let me know what you think!

"Butter turns his head toward me from his bed in the bike trailer and I can tell from the look in his eyes he knows I’m late. I can’t really do anything about the fact my chain fell off and it took an hour longer than it should have to get it back on. But it doesn’t matter. Since I found him behind the Jo-Ann’s Fabrics eating from a bolt of trashed blue and white cotton sear-sucker, Butter has proven to be exactly two things: angry and judgmental. But he’s my dog and sleeping bag partner, so I let him be who he is...."

The Best Thing in Bull & Cross, Issue 26