Animals inhabit the edges of the stories in American Animism. Some of the stories veer between realism and magical realism, but there is something at the center of each of these stories that makes them unique. A girl working in a cryptid museum, a boy in the attic of a gift shop on Mystery Hill, a vacation house in Nova Scotia where strange things happen: these are stories of transformation and becoming.
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Bio
Jamey Gallagher lives in Baltimore and teaches at the Community College of Baltimore County. His stories have been published in more than eighty places, including Punk Noir Magazine, Shotgun Honey, Pembroke Magazine, Bull Fiction, and LIT Magazine. His collection, American Animism, is available from Cornerstone Press.
Cowboy Jamboree, Spring 2025
Peatsmoke, April 15, 2025
Punk Noir, Feb 9, 2025
“The Day After Easter, Atlantic City, 2024”
Bull Fiction, Jan 26, 2025
Gone Lawn, December 14, 2024
Hidden Peak Press, December 9, 2024
Shotgun Honey, September 18, 2024
Milk Candy Review, September 12, 2024
“The Bar Built in an Old Sheet Metal Factory.”
The Rye Whiskey Review, July 17, 2024
Punk Noir, July 2024
“A Brief but Flaring and Glorious Life.”
Bristol Noir, June 4, 2024.
Marrow Magazine, April 15, 2024
Bull Fiction, April 2024
Revolution John, January 22, 2024.
Poverty House, Dec 9 2023,
Mystery Tribune Daily Fiction, Nov 18, 2023,
Punk Noir Magazine, July 2023
The Dodge, January 2023
“Don’t Want to go to Heaven; Just Want to Go Home.”
The Write Launch, November 2022
Invisible Cities, Fall 2020
Flash Fiction Magazine, May 23, 2020
Every Day Fiction, March 2020
“Of All The Wonders We Have Seen”
The Write Launch, September 2019
Bull Fiction, July 2017
“Kerouacking: A Failed Project”
‘Merica Magazine, Fall 2015
SN Review, Spring/Summer 2013
Canary, Spring 2013
Bull Fiction, December 2011
Pindeldyboz, June 2004
Lamination Colony, Fall 2003
Café Irreal, Issue 10, Summer 2003
DIAGRAM 3.2, May 2003
3 AM Magazine, March 2003