HOLLOWS
In Hollows, Tommy Dean reveals the crawlspaces and attics of American families, the places we dread and the places we yearn for—moments we didn’t know we needed until they were already lost. These fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, brothers, wives, and best friends crack and bend under the pressure of conventional love, running away and toward one another, longing for a space to call home, often giving in to the hollow securities of their lives. In these forty-five flash fictions, you’ll find the last two people on Earth, wondering if love or ramen will keep them alive; two brothers racing the Y2K clock as they consider their fear for the future; a son convincing his father to abandon a decrepit house that has come to represent the old man’s stubbornness. These stories thrum with the electricity of wonder, challenged by the open wounds of love and guilt—for parents, for loved ones, for broken selves surviving among their desires to strike out in a world that threatens to harden them into desperate creatures. Dean’s clear and urgent prose unites reader and character as they wind down dark and uncertain paths toward the fading light.
COVENANTS
Brutal and gorgeous, Tommy Dean’s chapbook Covenants contemplates the end of the world in various scenarios—floods, droughts, imminent divorce. These stories are tiny, piercing thorns. Even as everything is breaking, characters admire the beauty in the wreckage: “she loved the way the dying sunlight filtered through the spiderwebbed cracks.” Covenants both mourns and celebrates the illumination that forces through those cracks.
―Kim Magowan, author of Undoing
SPECIAL LIKE THE PEOPLE ON TV
Special Like the People on TV is fiction with a touch of too much reality. These brief stories–episodes, really, in the life of diverse, and in some cases, desperate characters–rings true in a way that’s not unlike the dramas airing on TV. These stories are not reality, they’re better. As the credits roll up the page, you will be wondering, musing, and predicting what happens next.
Tommy Dean 
A published writer, Patricia Jackson, gave me your name as she thought you would be interested in my novel, as you made a call for submissions looking for protagonists of color, thriller, suspense, and crime. As a homicide detective for about 39 years, I use my experience in writing my novels. She believes my current one, The Dissectologist would be of interest. The main protagonist is a black female detective who lives with a white male detective as the two try to solve a difficult murder case from the past that carried on to the present day. Thanks for your time. Ryan R Runyan (R3)
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