Haiku

Five haiku poems from: everything with an asterisk: haiku of Bruce H. Feingold. Bruce H. Feingold has been a psychologist for nearly fifty years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bruce’s […]

Read and Gift these Books

Circus of the Sun MillValleyLit editor-in-chief J.Macon King’s debut novel of 1979 San Francisco’s cultural, sexual and political maelstrom. “The most outrageously honest and erotic San Francisco novel since Jack […]

Submissions

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We strive to showcase the best short work and poetry. Only well-proofed polished submissions of literary merit are considered. We are not seeking unsolicited political submissions. Photos and […]

Winter 2022-2023 issue #23

Winter 2022-23 Issue #23  See Mill Valley rare snow photos here. Featuring:   Excerpt from Bernard Meisler’s hilarious neo-noir satire novel, There’s Never Been a Better Time to Buy Die. […]

To Sur, With Love

Honorable Mention: “Words on Water” international writing contest, 2023. To Sur, with Love Cragged cliffs rise to endless verde Cypress, Monterey Pines and scrub at Willow Creek, Sand Dollar, Jade […]

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The Gravedigger’s Score

Halloween Story The Gravedigger’s Score fiction by J.Macon King The jutting hill of San Rafael cemetery was quiet in the chilly night air. A cloud passed the moon as an […]

20 Feet from Enlightenment

20 Feet from Enlightenment: A Coming of Sage Story        memoir humor by J.Macon King Never cease from exploring the other side of that ridge… even though you may get lost… […]

From the 60’s to the ‘9ers with David Harris

From the 60’s to the ‘9ers with David Harris   by J.Macon King David Harris, war activist, author, journalist, artist, died from lung cancer at his home in Mill Valley, […]

Jeb Harrison Paintings

“Nicasio Spring,” oil on board, 11” x 14”, $350 Jeb Harrison has been an editor, reviewer and contributor with MillValleyLit since the beginning. Between playing music with a group at […]

Demon Copperhead review

   Dickens in Appalachia Review by Jeb Harrison Barbara Kingsolver’s Pulitzer-winning novel, Demon Copperhead, can be a bit of a vexing read, at first. The author’s uncanny ability to inhabit […]

Kurt Vonnegut—Self-assessment

Kurt Vonnegut—Self-assessment Celebrated author grades his own works                     In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight […]

How to Sing the Blues

How to Sing the Blues If you are new to Blues music, or like it but never really understood the whys and wherefores, here are some very fundamental rules: 1. […]

Eric Dennison Nature Photography

  Eric Dennison has been posting his nature photography for the past year on Nextdoor Washoe Valley (south of Reno), attracting an appreciative following. Below is a sampling of his […]

Ukraine Poems

Just a few days ago we received three short, stunning poems from Vyacheslav Konoval, a poet living in Kyiv, the capitol of Ukraine. Slava, as he calls himself (his nickname […]

Rare snow on Mt. Tam

Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County, CA, has only seen significant snow on its 2,579 feet a dozen or so times in the last 100 years, and Feb. 24th, 2023 was […]

Paris Beckons

Paris Beckons—Susanna Solomon launches her new short story collection It was a full house at Susanna Solomon’s launch at Book Passage in Marin County  Saturday, February 11 for her latest […]