“It Bothers Me” in Thuglit

The March/April 2015 issue of THUGLIT includes stories by Eric Beetner, Rob Hart, Ed Kurtz, Bracken MacLeod, Mark Rapacz, Devon Robbins, and Scott Loring Sanders.

That’s what insiders call a great lineup.

The same issue features my short story “It Bothers Me.”

Though entirely fictional, “It Bothers Me” is set in the very real town of Wilmot, South Dakota. (Wilmot, not far from the South Dakota-Minnesota border, is so small that — as of the date of this post — Google Street View doesn’t even cove...