A stack of ARCs at the publisher's office. My book is right up on top. The Advance Reader Copies for The Reel Life of Zara Kegg are officially done. Somewhere in America—possibly in a warehouse the size of Rhode Island—boxes of early, not-quite-final versions of my book are sitting on a pallet, waiting to be shipped to me. This is the stage where the book feels both real and unreal at the same time. Real, because it now exists in physical form. Unreal, because I haven’t actually held it yet....

I have a new story up today at On the Seawall . This one is for my father who, like the main character in the story, was an agoraphobic. Give it a read, and tell me what you think. https://www.ronslate.com/in-the-walls/

Here is the link to my flash fiction piece, "Sunday Nights."