FICTION

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The Price of Their Toys is out and available from bookstores (The Bookmark Shoppe!), Bookshop.org, Barnes and Noble, or Amazon. 

I will be holding a number of reading in the coming weeks – I hope you can stop by one of these and say hello.

 Friday, March 6:  Pickles Pub 520 Washington Blvd, Baltimore, MD; 9-11 pm

Thursday, March 12:  The BookMark Shoppe, 8415 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY;  6:30 pm

Thursday, April 9:  University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI:  6:00 pm

Wednesday, July 15: Oceanside Public Library, 30 Davison Ave, Oceanside, NY: 7:00 pm

Read Reviews and discussions of Price here:

The Washington Independent Review of Books: https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-price-of-their-toys-stories

The Southern Review:

https://southernlitreview.com/authors/betty-joyce-nash-interviews-john-p-loonam-author-of-the-price-of-their-toys-stories-of-men-and-boys.htm

Reedsy:

https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/the-price-of-their-toys-john-p-loonam#review

Forthcoming:

• My novel, Music the World Makes will be published by Frayed Edge Press later in November, 2026.

Previously Published:

• “The Assistant,”The Summerset Review. Fall, 2022.

• “The Unexamined Life,”descant, November, 2020.

• “A Wake,”Onward, wordRunner ebooks, Spring 2020.  

• “Action Adventure,”Lock and Load Armed Fiction. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, New Mexico. 2017. 

• “Lily and the Body,” The Madison Review, Spring 2016

• “Poets and Their Circles,”Across the Margin, April, 2015.

• “Running,”Modern Shorts, A Fiction Attic Short Story Anthology. Fiction Attic Press.  Burlingame, California. 2014.

• “Trump,”Santa Fe Writer’s Project, Fall 2013.

• “Returns,” Slow Trains Literary Journal, Spring 2011. 

• “Say a Few Words", Storyglossia, September 2009’ A “Best of Web” and Pushcart Prize nominee.

• “Alone With the Dalai Lama,” Third Order, Winter 2008.

• “Reservoir,”The Taj Mahal Review, June 2007.

• “Even Richard Nixon,” Slow Trains Literary Journal, Fall 2006.  A “Million Writers Award” Notable Story, Spring 2007.

• “Guy and Doll,” Antithesis Common Literary Journal, Fall 2006.

• “Waking,” Fifth Street Review, Spring 2003.

• “Knowing,” Here’s Me Bus, Winter 1995.

• “Hubcap Heaven,” The Black River Review, Summer 1995.

• “Sailor Take Warning,” fiction, Rubicon, September 1987.