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Still Just 99 cents!
STILL JUST 99 CENTS! (Free to reviewers) Robert Joe Stout’s Miss Sally, a Texas teenager’s struggles for recognition and love and the brutal forces slammed against her. A reviewer calls it “a breathless read.” https://www.amazon.com/Miss-Sally-Sinners-That-Ignores-ebook/dp/B071HL6YMJ/ref=sr
MISS SALLY IS BACK!
May 10, 2017
The 1970s bombshell now available on Kindle. Described as “way ahead of its time,” The New York Times cautioned: “You’ll love Miss Sally but she’ll break your heart.” Sally Halm’s initiation into womanhood, the discovery of sex without hope of love and grief without the release of tears, takes place in rural Texas during the […]
An Invitation He Couldn’t Refuse
February 8, 2017
To hear Matt Morrison talk you might believe that he’d created the poet/publisher/Gatherer-of-the-Tribes that he claimed to be out of sheer will and fortitude but in fact his life was a pool ball knocked here and there by forces he seldom perceived nor understood. Stubby forefinger darting here and there as though dotting […]
Lucky Ones
October 7, 2016
Published in Corvus Review #6, Fall 2016 Shortly before I left Oaxaca to return to San Francisco I ran into Joan Campbell in the Zòcalo. “Chinga, Madison, cuidado!” in her sharp voice that always seemed to be jumping from one octave to another, one language to another. “I wasn’t anticipating an attack.” “I guess not. […]
Off to War
September 18, 2016
Robert Joe Stout From Broadkill Review Vol. 10, number 4 Larry Hardy left for Canada the day after his eighteenth birthday. It must have been a Saturday because my dad was working in the garden and came around to the front of the house when he heard that Larry was asking for him. “Just want […]
The Crucifixion
July 10, 2016
https://ontherusk.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/otr-9.pdf ON THE RUSK, No. 9, June 2016 The Crucifixion Robert Joe Stout Sparks snapping from his skateboard’s wheels Rene Aronld caromed past the cactus-embroidered houses of the canyon subdivision where his parents lived towards the oleum creeping through the cleft in the San Rafael hills. To him Los Angeles was an alien jungle […]
Then the Soldiers Came
June 6, 2016
“We were going to be there—hundreds of us, maybe even a thousand, from all over the Mixteca. I went, la vieja—my wife and the children no. We were on a bus and just past Nochixtlàn soldiers stopped us—hundreds of them, armed. They made us get off the bus—a revision—they said. Then they said we were […]
Carmela
February 23, 2016
Published in Dual Coast Review, February 2016, a shortstory in the mode of Mexican leyendas populares. Robert Joe Stout Curled like a stray cat in the sand around the fire’s dead ashes Pedro Cesar twitched and grunted, simultaneously trying to emerge from the dream and sink into it, deeply, forgetfully, forever. Or was it […]
What Readers Say
November 9, 2015
about WHERE GRINGOS DON’T BELONG: I really enjoyed your book which I downloaded from amazon. The characters and events stuck with me for days…of course it took me days to read it because I am a slow reader and read only when I get into bed at night and then fall asleep in mid-sentence. But […]
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August 31, 2017
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