Dogs! Revenge! 1st Person Plural! Story "Geraldine Foggs" published in Identity Theory

There's revenge! Dogs! Mysterious illness! Yuppies! Small town crimes! Revenge by dogs! "Geraldine Foggs" is now out with Identity Theory. It only takes 12 minutes and no cost at all to read here.

This story about a cleaning woman with a crooked son and an unexplained blindness is told from the perspective of the town. I've always loved the first person plural. Anthony Doerr's "For A Long Time, This was Griselda's Story" and Jeffrey Eugenides' Virgin Suicides are gorgeous examples. It took me several drafts over the years to get the point-of-view and magical realism atmosphere right. A good reminder to keep editing and don't give up on your favorite stories. 

Can't thank enough editor extraordinaire Sophie Newman who helped me land the ending, and Matt Borondy for bringing me into the Identity Theory community, and who found the perfect photo to go with this piece.

Poem in "Writers Resist" Anthology

We The People Who March

We walk because that is all to be done

all our bodies can do

when so much has been done to us...

The night before the Women's March in DC in 2017, I wrote this poem "We The People Who March." I was scared, hopeful and still had no idea of the institutionalized cruelty and bigotry we were going to see since then. Now that I'm back in Switzerland, feeling helpless over the constant hail of heart-breaking news, I like to think back to that first march and know that we have so much more ground to cover.

The poem is now featured in the Writers Resist Anthology along with other word-fists of resistance.

Order the anthology here, and check out the schedule of readings all over the country: www.writersresist.com/anthology

My Icelandic short story "The Sudden" in apt Magazine

My short story set in Reykjavik has just come out with apt Magazine! I wrote this after visiting Harpa Concert Hall a year ago and was struck by the beehive architecture. Read here.

Harpa Concert Hall, Reykjavik

Actually, I dare anyone to go to dark magical light-filled Iceland and NOT feel compelled to write a story.

Poem "Philadelphia" in Offshoots Journal

My poem “Philadelphia” has just appeared in Offshoots Journal! I wrote this on a scrap of paper when my train broke down in Philadelphia, and I was waiting for my Dad to drive up from DC and rescue me. I started thinking of the long drive ahead for him, and about how he has spent so much time over the years driving me to school, piano lessons, to the airport when I left home, picking me up when I come home. All my life he has been rescuing me. He always seemed a giant to me.

Read more in Offshoots Journal 13, goes great with a cup of joe: http://www.genevawritersgroup.org/offshoots/offshoots-13/

Poem "Postcard" in Word Riot

Thank you thank you Word Riot​ for including my poem "Postcard" in the latest issue. So excited to be part of this seriously good always renegade journal, I could flip a table right now.

Read at:     WORD RIOT April 2015 Issue

"The Water Map" featured in Lonely Whale Anthology

Some great reading and company for all the lonely whales out there thanks to Chatsworth Press. Check out The Lonely Whale Memoir here!

So happy that my short story "The Water Map" could be a part of such a gorgeous gorgeous book.

New Poems in Maudlin House

BIG thanks to Maudlin House for including four of my poems in their monthly writing plus art peanut-butter-jelly goodness:

• "Unpublished Diaries of the Philae" on the comet lander
• "Airplane Song"
• "Top-Roping"
• "Blind Underline"

http://maudlinhouse.net/four-poems-by-yun-wei/