About Brad Barkley: Brad Barkley is an American short fiction writer, novelist, young adult novelist and a professor at Frostburg State University in Maryland.
You asked me if I believed in magic, and I said yes, and that's how. You just step out, start pulling your life out of the air. You make friends, you find work you really like doing, you find places. You find diners and Laundromats. You find beaches....
Ella, if it's magic, then nothing is supposed to happen.
And maybe that's it- if your family is broken and ruined, go find another one, or better yet, go make another one.
When you grow up the way I do, and the biggest thing in your life so far has been getting dunked in a glass tank by a man who acts like he’s mugging you but says instead he’s saving your soul, then celebrating your soul mugging at Sizzler with yo...
I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and f...
She looked like she believed in something, or wanted to, and I hoped to hell it wasn’t God, not in the way The Dad believes, because all that does is make him forced and desperate. No, it was something else, not just that I saw a pretty girl and ju...
I drove an orange Camaro and dated a cheerleader. Life was good.
I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.
Don't tell anyone this, but I have never been to Disneyworld. I don't know if I ever will, but I would like to.
Listen to your heart more than your head. This motto will get you in trouble, but it's never boring.
