Welcome aboard. My name is Alex.
I write fiction and nonfiction, and I work for an online literary magazine called Nashville Review.
I left an IT career in 2008 to enroll in a creative writing program. Now I’ve graduated with an MFA in fiction and I’m sending out stories, searching for teaching jobs, and watching YouTube videos. I spent eleven years in a cubicle and my goal is to never return to the corporate world. What are the odds? Not good. Will the academic/writerly world offer any more peace or satisfaction? I have no idea.
MoodyTunes is a place for me to blow off steam, toss out some ideas, and share what I’m thinking about…it really could go just about anywhere.
If you are interested, here are some essays and stories I wrote:
An essay called “The Key” is scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of Pisgah Review.
An essay about life on a sailboat, called Shiny Happy Pirate, for FRESH YARN.
An essay called The Harmonics of Bees, for the “First Person” section at A Prairie Home Companion.
A short story that was printed in the Beaufort County Art Council’s ArtNews magazine, in response to a call for short fiction based on a particular place in the county. I chose to write about a spot I like on St. Helena Island. The story is called The Warning.
If flash fiction is your thing (I like it), Endure showed up on Six Sentences.
I’m also testing the screenwriting waters with the fine bunch at Jake Leg Films.
You can e-mail me, or find me on Facebook.
