Joe De Quattro
Fiction Writer in California
Joe De Quattro has new fiction, "Blue Ache Ark", forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review. https://chicagoquarterlyreview.com
Chicago Quarterly Review is a tier 2, elite literary magazine.
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Perhaps Derek Jeter will make it to the show after all.
“Blue Ache Ark” is a multiplicitous collage set on an abandoned college campus in Vermont at some undisclosed point in the not too distant future. There is reference to the American Civil War, the one from 1861, but also the suggestion of a new one that's happening now (or soon to be); there are barns and hills and cannons and polo shirts. There is WW 3. There are stained glass windows, purgatory, sheep, pigs, horses; there is shame and oblivion and rules and corporate up and downsizing. There is a name. All in 3500 words.
JDQ's short stories have been published widely, most recently in New Letters. Nominated for The Best American Short Stories and a Pushcart Prize, he has an MFA in Fiction from Bennington College, alma mater of Donna Tartt, Clark E. Knowles, Brett Easton Ellis, Jonathan Lethem, Elizabeth Kennedy, Elizabeth Hille, Jordan Pederson, Keith Pedzich, and the great Burkholder.
Joe hates writing. Every minute of it. But he agrees with Madonna: if you can't say I'll die if I don't do it, then you probably shouldn't do it. Joe believes he'll die if he doesn't do it, so...