Foxes or Red Foxes

Hello—I have a new short story published today called “Foxes or Red Foxes”
You can read it here if you like.

Here is a fantastic painting by the artist Scott Michael Ackerman. Regulation Books/R&R. Magazine paired up “Foxes or Red Foxes” with this painting and I love it so much. And here is the link to Scott’s website. Check his work out.

Silent Stares, by Scott Michael Ackerman. Copyright the artist. Courtesy the artist.

Other than that, what have I been up to? Oh wow, what a question. I’ve been working hard on my next novel, and mostly by working hard, I mean, I been THINKING about it a lot while floating around on a raft in my sister-in-laws’s heated pool. I just think about it and think about it and then all a sudden when I’m looking up at the clouds I go, ahhh, yeah, that’s how I’ll solve that problem/scene. I’ve been through all of this before: work on a novel for a few years and then switch into this gear when it comes time to imagine it’s anywhere close to being a ‘publishable and readable’ object. Sometimes it takes a long time for me to do work I’m proud of but I always tell myself something like this: Well, this is the last I’ll ever have to say on THIS subject.

Thanks for reading my work,
Much respect to you
Bud Smith