I’m so excited to share that one of my short-short stories from a series de/recontextualizing “icons” of masculinity, “John Wayne Learns He Is a Woman in Barcelona,” was recently published in Issue 9 of the Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly! In it, I hope to investigate constructions of whiteness and masculinity, and how narratives of imperialism and power reify these constructions.
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John Wayne Goes to Vegas
My entry into “Lascaux 250,” a flash fiction contest.
Heartbreakin’ Cross State Lines
Cowboys don’t feel shame no matter how many gowns they rip.
John Wayne’s Honda Civic got gallup to it
and cracked headlights that don’t feel shame, neither.
The folks a man meets:
Women and men and poets and artists;
Sorceresses and thieves.
Cowboys write about tumbleweeds and necrophilia;
Got dirty teeth;
are Phillip Morris friendly.
John Wayne has nightmares:
hotel rooms, hotel rooms,
giant swimming beasts.
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