Grace Street Alley and other stories
My first book, with Makeout Creek Books.
“Grace Street Alley and other stories” contains 27 interlinked stories, set largely in Richmond, that follow a character named Levy Bahm “as he navigates education, love, race, work, drink and violence, and strives to understand his place win a universe that is mostly uncaring yet still somehow beautiful.”
The Desperado Days
My second collection of short stories, with Trnsfr Books.
“X.C. Atkins's brief, deft, intimate, painful, grace-filled, totally bullshit-free stories floored me. To read them is to live 100 years or more in under a minute.”
—LUCY IVES, author of Life Is Everywhere and Cosmogony