Gary Shaheen

Glenn Shaheen is the author of two collections of poetry, Predatory and Energy Corridor, and a chapbook of flash fiction, Unchecked Savagery. His full length fiction collection, Carnivalia, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in 2018.

Wading

The new boy was beautiful, and I wanted him to be my friend, and only mine. Our teacher introduced him to the class. He moved here from Atlanta. We were rural Florida, real Spanish moss trailers and Food Lion grocery trips. The new boy, Cyril, had blue eyes that glittered like television static. He was tall for a ninth grader,… Read more →