The FraudWhen I first met convicted art-forger Freddy Plinko in Los Angeles in the summer of 1960, I was a twenty-four-year-old journalist on my first assignment to America, and he recently a septuagenarian...
historical fiction
fiction,
Hesse Phillips
Hesse Phillips's fiction and poetry have appeared in The Bridport Review, époque press, Pangyrus, & others. Their debut historical novel LIGHTBORNE will be published by Atlantic Books UK and Pegasus Books US in 2024. US expat living in Spain.
Madrid, Spain
Selected work (12 publications)
Eulogy for An Unpublished NovelSo this is the end. After two decades, I’ve stopped writing Lightborne. This is a celebration, but it’s also a eulogy: for the work, for the hope, for the task I just had to complete, which began as all eulogies do, with death.
Essay
Sebastian Melmoth in Silver CityNo trains ran to Silver City, Idaho, on the rugged edge of what was, in 1882, agreed to be the United States of America. When our stagecoach broke an axle crossing the mountains, the driver saddled two spare horses, one for Oscar, one for me...
Fiction
historical
oscar wilde
'GOD HATES ___' (A sonnet)If I believed in God, I would use Him
The way He has been used against me.
Those who have condemned me, I would condemn
From my high pulpit, and rain hellfire down
On what I deem hypocrisy.
poetry