Cody Shrum
Kansas Writer etc.
Recent Publications
Here are links to some of my most recent publications: short fiction and poetry
Zenith
Cleaver Magazine, Issue 43
Four of them were out that night: two brothers and a couple. They’d been howling at the moon, driving around, being kids—senior year, winter break. Wattles Road was just outside town, nobody around to bother them. The sky hanging over the town was dull gray, its belly full of snow.
The Batman of Perry County
Identity Theory, October 6, 2022
It started off as a joke. Some guy in town started showing up to crime scenes dressed in a Batman costume. The cape was made from a black cloth, and where the neck and shoulders met, his skin showed. The boots might have been Wolverines from Wal-Mart...
Following Broken Trails
Livina Press, Issue 1, p. 81
December wind rose through the shadow-strewn street of East Pine. Jon and his younger brother, Max, watched snow flurries float to the ground like glistening butterflies through their front window. Their mother was already fast asleep on the couch, shifting light from the television screen dancing across her face...
Wayward Women
Prime Number Magazine, Issue 181
Outside, spring was coming on, though all that freshness was still layered in cold. Laura’s car, parked in the circle drive, was dusted with the remnants of winter slush she’d come through during the seven hour drive from Denver. Inside the house, Laura watched her mother sleep, the bedroom window blinds cracked. Laura was tempted to call this place “home,” but it wasn’t.
"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home."
William Faulkner
