A Minor Prophet (Flash Fiction Magazine, 2024)
A Minor ProphetDeborah Sale-Butler
Blueberry Boat Turns 20 (Stereogum, 2024)
The Fiery Furnaces’ ‘Blueberry Boat’ Turns 20For a brief and spectacular moment two decades years ago, it seemed like every band could be the Fiery Furnaces. Every band could make music bursting with ideas, suffused with charm, willing to try almost anything to give its listeners a thrill. Blueberry Boat,
One Hundred Million Dollars (Overheard, 2024)
My new flash piece, "One Hundred Million Dollars," is out today at Overheard. It's a weird little beastie. I hope you check it out! https://overheardlit.org/prose/one-hundred-million-dollars
Vibrational Match (Tower, 2024)
I have a story in a great publication called TOWER, out today. It's my first published non-flash story, so I hope you give it a read when you have some time (and send a few bucks Tower's way, if you can, so they can produce more
Blueberry Boat (Clap Clap blog, 2004)
Back in 2004, I was a 25-year-old finance and legal assistant at a record label, and instead of entering 200 individual paper invoices for shipping 2 promo CDs of Sugarcult from Nashville to Albuquerque, like I was being paid to do, I would blog. At first it was politics, about
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