Ray Shea's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southeast Review, Split Lip Magazine, Hobart, Phoebe, and elsewhere. A native of Boston and New Orleans, he lives in Austin. He owns Rayshea.net but you never know what you'll find there.
It seemed like nature might be offering up something fraught with emotion, a beautiful image that a writer could imbue with heartbreaking symbolism. But I couldn’t come up with anything. It was just fall, and so the leaves were red.
When I first bought The Sound of Building Coffins, by Louis Maistros, I was already in the middle of another book. My girlfriend Linda was visiting me in New Orleans.…