Spinning Away from the Center: Stories from the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction

Just out from the University of Georgia Press, Spinning Away from the Center, edited by Ethan Laughman, includes the title short story from my collection, Sky Over El Nido.

I wrote “Sky Over El Nido” about 500 years ago (um, that would be sometime in the early ’90s). What’s interesting to me about it now is that it has what I thought of then as a net-like narrative structure, but that I now think of as Sandboxing with Fractals. At the time I was reading a lot of Douglas Glover, Kate Braverman, Jorge Luis Borges, Marguerite Feitlowitz, and Flannery O’Connor. It was a wicked lark to write.

You can read more about Sky Over El Nido over on my webpage, www.cmmayo.com. (…In 2020 I aim to get that verily ancient website into WordPress…)

P.S. Delighted to report that I am nearly ready to record the long-delayed Marfa Mondays podcast #21 about the Seminole Scouts. Stay tuned.

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