Light Escapes the Street

I have a story—another novel excerpt—in the latest issue of El Portal Literary Journal, a publication produced graduate students and faculty at Eastern New Mexico University.  El Portal includes writing and art from Eastern New Mexico students as well as other writers far and near.  The quality of the writing in El Portal is consistently excellent, and that includes the student writers.  I am honored to be published with them.  I have a recollection of El Portal being one of the mainstays of the Southwest literary scene back in the days of my youth, alongside journals like Arizona Quarterly and (the now defunct) New Mexico Quarterly—a place that published many important writers with southwestern roots along with others who taught and lived in the Southwest.  It certainly has a long history and is still in the hands of exceedingly discerning and capable editors.