So often in movies, in TV, in novels, in the stories of ordinary people, the choice between the big city and small town, or suburbia and a tight-knit village, or a life of adventure and a life of contentment, is a clear-cut, obvious choice. It is a simple binary, an easy moral decision. The flavor that the individual story may take is different, but the message is the same: you can't have both options; you must pick one.
Published in The Watershed Journal, Winter 2023
Published in Rune, a publication of Robert Morris University, Spring 2023
This short story was recently published in the pandemic-themed Volume 4 of SHIFT, a publication of MTSU Write. Thank you SHIFT for including this story! It was one of my favorites to work on, and I'm delighted to share it here for the first time. Enjoy! Success It happened in October of 2020. Of course… Continue reading Success: The Story of an Unnamed Young Woman Who Sold Her Soul to the Devil
Summer literally is the pinnacle of life, and although I've suspected it for a long time, each year serves to confirm this idea.
This flash fiction piece originally appeared in the Fall 2021 issue of :Lexicon, the literary magazine of the English Department at Duquesne University. Enjoy! Sunbathing You go to the Schenley Park Overlook, a wide grassy plain surrounded by trees, with a little dip of a hill in the middle. From here you can see the… Continue reading Sunbathing
This poem originally appeared in the journal In Parentheses Vol. 7, Issue 2, Fall 2021. Mount Royal Boulevard, 1966 I will not take Mount Royal Boulevard.Not since April third,the rainy night at the tight curvehalfway down the road,when the tires shrieked,and the maple treecracked in halffrom the forceof the red Ford Mustang.The glass on the… Continue reading Mount Royal Boulevard, 1966
In true form, I've neglected to update news of my writing escapades here, and I instead let everyone else on every other social media platform know. I have to start getting better at this! (Maybe a New Year's resolution is on the horizon). Okay, now the news: my book is out! And It All Came… Continue reading News: The Book is Out!
My upcoming novel, And It All Came Tumbling Down, has a cover! When I first saw this image by local photographer Greg Clary, I was captivated. The picture brings to mind themes of post-industrialism, the pull of the past and the lure of the future, ideas of escape and moving on. The remoteness of nature,… Continue reading News: Book Cover Reveal!
It's high time for me to announce some belated good news here! If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, or if you've looked around the site, you probably know, but if not, here it is: My first novel is getting published! Over the past few weeks. I've been working with the lovely folks at… Continue reading (Long Overdue) News: Debut Novel Publication!
Hannah Allman Kennedy 