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Who Killed Buster Sparkle?

A ghost. A drag queen. An invasion of ants. Welcome to Clover, Mississippi.

Nominated for the 2020 Award in Fiction by the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters. Winner of the 2019 Screencraft Cinematic Book Competition. Published by Unsolicited Press in 2019. Distributed through Ingram.

Joint statement from Unsolicited Press and the author:

“The previous edition of the novel included an antagonist who uses two slurs that, after considerable reflection, both the author and press no longer feel are appropriate or necessary to the story. Those have been deleted from new prints."

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FNewsMagazine is the student-run newspaper at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Published in Vol. 4, No. 2, of the New Southern Fugitives.

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