Doug Hoekstra

Billy and The Tuba

Doug Hoekstra reads “Billy and The Tuba,” a short story from his award-winning “Bothering the Coffee Drinkers” collection. Live at Elastic in Chicago. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWjGiCn4BvA And if you like what you hear, you can click here and pick up a copy: Amazon

Memory

Here’s a brand new one, folks, for your immediate pleasure. Enjoy. Memory is like a dream and dreams are like memories chasing you through your days changing shape filling holes until you wake up a different person than the day before which is as it should be or you would become thirty thousand versions ofContinueContinue reading “Memory”

Gravitas

Happy to plug a new Doug Hoekstra flashfiction titled “Gravitas” which just went live at the new issue of “Brilliant Flash Fiction.” I don’t know how brilliant it is, but hit the link scroll down, and find out. Thanks for the read! https://brilliantflashfictionmag.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/issue-16-january-2018/#more-2855

Wedding Bands

“Wedding Bands,” a new piece of flash fiction up at the estimable “Friday Flash Fiction”. Love. Memory. Pawn Shops. Bob Dylan. Enjoy. Right here: http://www.fridayflashfiction.com/longer-stories/wedding-bands-by-doug-hoekstra

In the Direction of the Slide

A new Doug Hoekstra poem, “In the Direction of the Slide,” just out at Edify Fiction. Edify’s mission is to “offer positive and uplifting fiction content by new and established authors. For our readers, it is all things good or true or romantic or beautiful or lovely.” There can be a fair amount of post-modernContinueContinue reading “In the Direction of the Slide”