A Great Review of Red Line Blues & Torch

Each month Newpages, the center of all things lit-journal, reviews a host of literary journals that are hot-off-the-presses. This month they reviewed Red Line Blues, which published my story "Torch" in their spring 2010 issue.

I knew Red Line Blues would receive a glowing review because the writing is strong and the journal itself is handsomely produced (buy your copy here). But I was pleasantly surprised to find that poet and literary reviewer Sara C. Rauch selected my story as her favorite in the issue. Ms. Rauch had great things to say about the whole issue, but specifically about my fiction she wrote:

"My favorite piece was Blake Kimzey's story, "Torch," which relates the misadventures of Frank, a down-on-his-luck anti-hero, who, in order to support a drug addiction, is trying to arrange the sale of his mother’s home, currently occupied by his aging aunt who has Alzheimer's. His mother seems unable to fully stand up to Frank, and he has struck up an unorthodox relationship with the realtor. "Torch" propels itself along, using just the right amount of description and well-tuned dialogue, and at times is downright comical."

You can read the entire Newpages review of Red Line Blues by clicking here. And please, by all means, buy your copy of Red Line Blues today! Each copy is only $5 and they are almost sold out.