"A World of Wonder" and Top Shelf Literary Magazine

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I mentioned a few posts ago how exciting it was to have one's work published in a particular venue for the first time. Well, it's even more exciting when your work is selected for the inaugural issue of an entirely new publication.

My story, A World of Wonder, appears this month in the first-ever issue of Top Shelf Literary Magazine. I must say, the magazine itself looks great. As for my contribution ... it's a Don Quixote inspired tale that plays with the idea that the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance may have been right after all. His neighbors, maybe, are the ones deluded about the nature of the world around them.

Check it out and enjoy the other stories as well. There are some very, very good ones. 


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