Today I received word from a literary review called Doubleback Review that they would like to publish my short story, Doing What You Have To Do. But wait a minute, the more detail oriented amongst you might be saying, hasn’t that particular story already been published? Well, yes it has, in the Soundings Review clear back in 2015. However, the Soundings Review has been defunct for years, my story appearing in its very last issue, and Doubleback is a literary review with a the very specific goal of publishing the best of short stories that were published in now defunct literary reviews.
Overall, this is pretty exciting for me, mostly because it gives a whole new group of people the opportunity to read a story that is one of my personal favorites. Doing What You Have To Do is one of the first stories I ever wrote, one of the first I let somebody else read, and one of the first stories I ever started trying to get published. I look forward to sharing it with you again, but in the mean time, check out some of my other writing, such as my book Papaya.