As mentioned elsewhere in this site, I am an author with a humble few publications under my belt, writings which I (eventually) intend to make accessible from this website as well. I do, however, also want a home for writing that, for whatever reason, has found a hard time getting into a publisher. There's no shortage of things I've written that I'd love to share, but will likely never have an "official" home. However, there's something of a tightrope to be walked here: Most literary journals request right of first publication, meaning that if I have a piece of writing submitted here, I can no longer send it elsewhere without seriously jeopardizing a journal's trust in me as writer.

As such, if writing appears here, it is because I've become convinced that, despite whatever fondnesss I have for it, its chance at publication is doomed. Let me be clear: I don't believe these writings are always bad. While there will almost certainly be some real stinkers I post here for whatever reason, there will also be some idiosyncratic writing here as well, which I've found difficulty finding a home for simply because I've yet to find journals which they match in terms of taste. While this is a sad fate, nearly every writer has pieces of this sort.

In short, this place is a graveyard. No one decorates the graves of those they didn't love.

-Gus
3/31/2026.