K. Marvin Bruce

The Space between Atoms will continue next week.   (The episode is already written.)   This week instead I wanted to pass along the timely and happy news that my story, “Friday before Senior Year,” has been published in The Corner Bar .   You may read it here: http://cornerbarmagazine.com/pdfs/corner-bar-volume-05-issue-06.pdf . This particular tale delves back into my own high school days.   Those among us timid and shy wondered what other kids did on the weekend while we were curled up at home with books.   And the monsters of this story were conjured by an article like that mentioned by the protagonist. Many of us who write fiction draw from the well of our own experience.   I knew bullies in school.   Other guys in the locker room bragged of what they’d done with girls we’d only ever seen fully clad.   They talked of secret and scary places.   Some of them died. The young might be classified as a different species.   Th...

This is the feeling that keeps me writing.   The email that accepts a story for publication. Although it might not seem like it, I’ve been writing fiction since about 1974.   Those first stories, scrawled on a school tablet, were my way of coping.   After my mother’s remarriage, a move, and a verbally abusive step-father came into the picture, I began writing. My first published stories (which I don’t count) were in my high school newspaper.   I won a state-wide essay contest.   I’d been bitten by the bug.   For reasons I can’t go into here, I stopped submitting fiction until about 2006. Now I’m trying to catch up.   Literary magazines have a backlog.   So do I.   A story I’d tried to publish a couple of times, “Friday before Senior Year,” has just been accepted by The Corner Bar .   I’m thrilled and pleased. You see, I’ve been working on a continuation of that story.   Not the main character, but a secondary charac...