The Teeth Within

"The Teeth Within," a short-short, appeared in Issue #10 (October 2010) of Kaleidotrope. Fred Coppersmith edits this awesome genre zine.

*Note: First review ever: From SFRevu:

"The Teeth Within" by Jason Huskey is another clever little half-pager about a guy who dreamed of being bitten by beautiful vampire women. Things just don't go his way. Good story!

"The Blackout"

"The Blackout" was selected as one of the five showcase pieces from the first annual S4C competition hosted by Declaration Editing. Much thanks to Vinnie Kinsella and Maureen Inouye.

"Awaiting Arrival"

"Awaiting Arrival," a slice of flash, appears in the Spring edition (Volume #26 April - June 2009) of Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal. This is the second story I've placed here. Kathy Rhodes is the Editor. Check them out!

Three

"Three," my first full-length short story published, appeared in the January 2007 edition of Word Riot. Jackie Corley is the editor of this awesome online journal. Check them out.



from Three:

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I stared at the scraggly boy with so much to say in return that it got me thinking about me when I was his age. A hotheaded terror of a son of a gun all the same, I kind of knew just about where he was coming from. The army straightened me out pretty good, though I didn't think it was right for him. Oh, I could have said a boot-ful of stuff standing there and towering over him, but thinking about my youth made me think about my daddy and the three rules he lived by.


The first one he told me during a whippin' I received for calling my mama a name I've never uttered toward another woman in my life. "Sometimes," he said, bringing another blow down on my eight-year-old bare behind in front of the butcher at Eddie's Supermarket, "no matter how much you think they need it, or how much the urge is on your tongue; sometimes you just need to save ass and change the subject."

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Read the rest.

Needless is a content warning if you read even this small sample.

A Connecticut Yankee in Kit Carson Court

"A Connecticut Yankee in Kit Carson Court" was published in the May 2006 issue of Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal. This is a very nice Southern journal edited by Kathy Rhodes. Check it out. This was my first published story.

I was too tired to think and asked the only thing that had come to my mind. "You mean we ain't gonna put in the shitter?"

About

My name is Jason L. Huskey. I'm a poet and fiction writer living in central Virginia. I currently work in retail as my degree in English rests somewhere close sucking up more dust than a Hoover bagless. Really, there's not much more to me than that.

Basically, I am just collecting my various publications into one central location. Starting from the beginning and continuing on as they occur, I'm going to lay it all out. Sorta like a poor man's flashy website, except it's not flashy and it's free.

Big Boy is my cat. Big Boy likes cheese-flavored snacks. "Big Boy ate the Cheeto" just popped into my head when I followed through with this little bit of self-promotion.

Thanks for stopping by.