Writer of Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry and Master Photographer
By Michael K. Brantley Both of my paternal grandparents passed away before I made it to my teens. I was not close to them. My grandmother was born in 1891, and I was most fascinated by all of the history she experienced in her lifetime. After all, she predated flight by more than a decade…
I’m glad to have fresh work and have it in a very nice journal, The Magnolia Review. “Number One Pork Chop Man” is an essay I started when I was working on my MFA at Queens University of Charlotte. It is about a great Chinese restaurant that used to be in Rocky Mount (NC) for…