Eric Shay Howard

Bad blogger. Complicated. Gay.

Eric Shay Howard lives in Louisville, Kentucky. He’s the author of the fiction collection, Crushes, and is a literary editor. He also works at a law firm and is writing his second book. He’s a graduate student in the Bluegrass Writers Studio MFA in Creative Writing program at Eastern Kentucky University.

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  • My Fall 2022 Semester, and Reasons Why I’ve Been Too Busy To Blog For A Few Months

    My Fall 2022 Semester, and Reasons Why I’ve Been Too Busy To Blog For A Few Months

    Wow, it’s been a whole semester. Well, give or take a few weeks. Sorry about that. The Fall semester in the MFA program started out kind of steady but then it got really intense this last month. I honestly think it was just how my assignment due dates ended up falling on the calendar across […]

  • My Review of The Wall Street Journal

    My Review of The Wall Street Journal

    I’m currently reading The Wall Street Journal Monday through Saturday. I’m reading more newspapers because of business school. This is my review of the newspaper. Why I Picked Up The Wall Street Journal For my Wall Street Journal review, I figured it would be best to walk you through why I tried it out in […]

  • Crushes, A Fiction Collection by Eric Shay Howard, Coming Soon To Paperback

    Crushes, A Fiction Collection by Eric Shay Howard, Coming Soon To Paperback

    I received my proof copy of Crushes, my short fiction collection, by me, Eric Shay Howard. This book is already available on Amazon Kindle, but I haven’t had time to get the paperback version ready until now. I’m pretty excited about it! I worked really hard on these stories for a very long time. I’m […]

  • Writing A Friend In Prison After 13 Years

    Writing A Friend In Prison After 13 Years

    One of my best friends in high school is in prison for doing something awful. He was on the run for 2 years and has been in prison for 7 years. I haven’t spoken to him for longer than that – maybe 10 or 12 years? Let’s just say 13 years. I have been wanting […]

  • Losing One – Fiction

    Losing One – Fiction

    The rain stopped hitting the tin roof above the garage door. Sean turned off the table saw and wiped the sawdust from his face with his faded red t-shirt. Maggie ran out from under the silver Nissan. She shook the water off of her and sat down on her hind legs. She scratched behind her […]

  • The Arrangements of Bird Men – Fiction

    The Arrangements of Bird Men – Fiction

    Thanks again for voting on which short story to post on my blog. I’m pleasantly surprised at how this one turned out. This is a version of a short story about mystery, plastic bird men, and awkwardness, I guess. If you like it, please share it. * He sits down next to me. His slim […]

  • I Went To A Bar On Easter

    For Easter my friend was like, let’s go to the cemetery and take pictures of trees. I said okay. So we went to see Colonel Sanders’s grave because people do that for some reason. My friend took pictures of trees in the cemetery while I took pictures of him taking pictures because art. Then we […]