My first story published in Ireland
My short story “A Vagabond’s Education” was published by John Campbell at Roadside Fiction. Roadside publishes the kind of stuff I don’t see put out there too often in this sedentary, stationary world.
I was bitten by wanderlust when I was just a kid and to this day hold an abiding love for the road and for ‘real’ travel, by which I mean travel without a safety net. Adventure. It’s a funny thing…book your hotel and take train, it’s a trip. Throw on a backpack and wander out with your thumb up in the air with nothing but a few hazy plans and it becomes an adventure.
Anyway, this story is a bit more gritty and hard edged than what I’ve had out there lately, but I hope it illuminates that certain, special type of American archetypal author that may no longer be in the limelight, but is most assuredly still out there, somewhere, tramping and slinging out stories.
