I am honored and thrilled to have my piece “In Summer” published in the latest edition of The Wilderness House Literary Review 8/2. Thank you Editor and Publisher Steve Glines and Fiction Editor Prema Bangera for including my piece with work from so many wonderful writers.
My poem “Driving Home at Midnight” is in the current Boston based print journal Ibbetson Street #33. THANK YOU Publisher Doug Holder and Managing Editor Lawrence Kessenich for including my piece with work from so many wonderful writers and literary colleagues such as Marie -Elizabeth Mali, Timothy Gager and Teisha Twomey in this robust and high spirited edition ~ Ibbetson Street # 33!
This is a repost because I inadvertently posted a link that didn’t work. I apologize for any inconvenience or aggravation!
My piece “Funky Little Blaze Orange Pork Pie Hats” is up on the Metazen site. Thank you Christopher Allen and the rest of the editorial staff for publishing my work! http://www.metazen.ca/?p=13207
THE LUNCH LADY INCREDIBLE, EDIBLE EGG SALAD SANDWICH
Hey there boys and girls! This is The Lunch Laddy, Michael Gillan Maxwell, comin’ at ya with another chapter of the Lunch Lady Cookbook. Hard to believe that school’s out for summer already. Kids are jumping off of piers pinching their noses shut, falling out of trees and breaking their wrists, running through sprinklers, skinny dippin’ in the swimming hole, pulling ginormus catfish out of the fishin’ hole, weaving lanyards at summer camp and riding their bikes down shady sidewalks with baseball cards clothes-pinned to their bicycle spokes. I know how summer works. But people still gotta eat and the Lunch Lady Cookbook does not take summer vacations. So get with the program peeples!
Today we tackle one of the most time honored of comfort foods ~ the venerable ~ the one and only ~ Egg Salad Sandwich. How could I be so prosaic, you ask. Well let me tell you this straight up. The Lunch Lady Cookbook don’t know from prosaic. It’s all good. And so, without further adieu, I present:
THE LUNCH LADY INCREDIBLE, EDIBLE EGG SALAD SANDWICH
Ingredients:
Egg Salad:
2 Hard Boiled Eggs (Cage Free, organic, jumbo brownies)
Half cup of finely minced sweet Vidalia onion
4 Bread and Butter Pickle Chips ~ chopped and diced
Salt
Red Pepper Flakes
Garlic Powder
Dried Basil Leaves
Tablespoon Mayonnaise
Slice, dice, mix and stir. Bend, spindle and mutilate.
Top with basil flakes and red pepper flakes and serve
Sandwich:
2 pieces sourdough bread, lightly toasted and buttered
Cut into 4 pieces, evenly distribute egg salad
Top with thinly sliced tomato
and there you have it.
By the way, if any of you namby, pamby Momma’s boys need the crusts cut off, then this ain’t the place for you.
Since this involves eggs and mayonnaise, The Lunch Laddy suggests two prophylactic doses of Lipitor before consuming.
Beverage Pairing:
Ice cold Canandaigua Lake Ale.
(I know, it’s only noon, but the sun is over the yardarm somewhere, dammit!)
Music Pairing:
Of course ~ the Alice Cooper classic ~ “School’s Out For Summer”
(It’s summer bitches! And for me ~ school’s out forever.)
Hey, as much as we all love Alice ~
no biting off the heads of live chickens or snakes in the Lunch Lady Cafeteria!
I am thrilled to have a piece in Lost in Thought: Issue 4 and be in the company of such mega-talented artists and writers: Jules Archer, Linda Simoni-Wastila, Josh Denslow, Harley May, Bud Smith, Gregory Sherl, Jen Knox, Kristine Ong Muslim, Gloria Mindock, Pamela Davis, Tina Barry, Loren Moreno, Mathieu Callier and Michael Seidel. Thank you publisher Kyle Schruder and Editor Robert Vaughan!
Your Own Back Yard - Michael Gillan Maxwell 