Susan’s Published Works
My first story was accepted by Field Publishing for their company newsletter. They paid me $25, heady stuff at 16.
Midwest Gothic Interview
Susan K. Maciolek’s story “Crayon” appears in Midwestern Gothic Issue 8, out now. How long have you been writing?My father brought home scrap paper from the office…
Contraband
The sky was a deep, inky blue studded with stars. There was no moon, so no moonlight, which was all to the good. I had…
A Pinpoint in the Dark
She took no pleasure in sunny days;how a shadow fell on pavement,an eddy of dust on a desolate corner,the reek of hot asphalt in an…
Lipstick
Tilting her head back, my mother peers into the bathroom mirror and puts on her lipstick in three deft moves – quick strokes left and…
Girls in White Dresses
Three little Mexican girls in frilly white dresses run up and down the hallway in their sock feet, trilling in delight. They slide on the…
Dirge
Late November – gray, cold, grim. The radio blared Christmas music between bulletins about a fire at a grade school. A report on the number…
Crayon
On a hot Sunday afternoon in July my father is out in the backyard listening to a baseball game on the radio. The announcer’s voice…