like, letters & sodas.

And it wasn’t like we were friends-friends, but when he came to the back door I asked him the secret password. He said YOU WILL BURST INTO FLAMES UPON REENTERING THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE. His voice, a small fire. And the thing is, there was no secret password. He’d been with a lot of girls – probably in vans and on cold basement floors. In drooping green tents slick with summer rain. He told me I tasted like black coffee and kiwi.

_from BACK WHEN EXILE IN GUYVILLE WAS THE ONLY ALBUM I LISTENED TO. My little story in the latest issue of NAP!

I am Leesa. A brown-eyed Kentucky girl & a writer of fictions. INFJ, a highly sensitive person, an empath. Sometimes I write about makeup and baseball and books and life and stuff over at LeesaCrossSmith.com & there's a detailed list of my work over here. I'm also co-founder and editor over at WhiskeyPaper. I write reviews for The Review Review & Female Gaze Review & some other places too. And here's my goodreads page. Yes, yes y'all.

PUBLISHED:
-2011 Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, Editor's Choice
-The Rumpus
-Storychord
-Bluestem Magazine
-Word Riot
-Little Fiction
-matchbook
-DOGZPLOT
-Treehouse
-Blackberry
-Linden Avenue
-The Weekenders Magazine
-WhiskeyPaper
-NAP
-Juked
-Specter
-Little (flash) Fiction
-Nib Magazine
-Five [Quarterly]
-KY Flash Story 2012
-Pithead Chapel
-Sundog Lit
-Literary Orphans
-Nib Magazine
-Spartan
-Linden Avenue

FORTHCOMING:
-Fiction Southeast
-Sundog Lit
-Gigantic Sequins
-Squalorly
-Midwestern Gothic
-Little Fiction

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS:
-Little Fiction
-Nib Magazine
-Carve Magazine

HELLO, YOU! JSYK: I love Jesus. "Bind my wandering heart to Thee." I also love my bearded husband & our little babies. Also: haberdashery, DMB, The Avett Brothers, Caleb Followill's voice, Justin Timberlake, The Civil Wars, Raylan Givens & Justified, Jax Teller & Sons of Anarchy, hands-in-pockets Jim Halpert, country music, bluegrass, southern living, mason jars, cardigan sweaters, extra accessories, winged eyeliner, hippie stuff, bright colors, the 90s, classic rock, baseball, Derek Jeter's jump throw, Josh Hamilton's batting bounce, Americana, my LLBean boots, cowboy boots, old-timey things, the country, the mountains, the ocean, flannel & plaid, hilarity, books & cooking & food & farming & basically anything that is awesome. Most of these pictures are not mine but everything should link back to its original source. I reblog things b/c of how they make me feel and b/c of reasons. Here is my message box. ♥