Kelsey, a Chemistry Professor in North Carolina, accidentally discovers the cure for something that ails everyone on the planet. It leads her to Australia as she struggles to share what she found with the whole world while a drug company tries to profit from her miraculous find. Join Kelsey, her husband Morgan, their dog Schiller and an evil drug exec McQuire in this journey of discovering and embracing the message from within.
My new short story, Human Terms, appears in the July 2023 issue of “Literature Today”. You can get the book or e-book to read it.
It was his idea to divide everything. Jasper looked up to his brother Jonas, but maybe there’s something wrong with that.
From the book: ““For many years, there’s been sightings in Old Fort, North Carolina near Curtis Creek close to the Blue Ridge Parkway and up around the Geyser. Usually, there’s more than one. Sometimes physical evidence is left behind. This pack is unusual, though, because they come back. It’s best to make peace with them just in case you come face to face with one.”
“Let him turn vinegar into wine if he thought he could.”
Many thanks to Highland Park Poetry for publishing my poem, “Conquering the Map.” You can view the original FB post and poem here: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=804985704550832&set=a.579194347129970
I speak North Cackalacky
Clanka Lanka
Kakerlake
“tsalaki” (cha-lak-ee)
stuck down here
up here
in the boondocks
in Cackalack
beach
mountains
BBQ sauce
don’t forget the sweet potatoes
Sigogglin’ (crooked not straight)
in the Smoky Mountains
(there’s no E in Smoky)
beware the dingbatters
in the Outer Banks
and you might could
ride your lawnmower to
the grocery store or
ride your tractor to the movies
or move your recliner onto
the front porch just to watch
the lightning bugs or
turn your carport into a living
room with cinder blocks
only in North Cackalacky
yeah, I speak North Cacaklack!
Please check out me explaining North Carolina aka North Cackalacky for my poet friend Rick Lupert for his pop up PR for his new poetry book “The Low Country Shvitz” (poems about Savannah, Charleston, Asheville, Charlotte) here: https://youtu.be/Qzi9vM-6xe4 and then get your own copy of his book (where he brings the humidity not the heat to these wonderful travel poems) here: https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/rick/about/the-low-country-shvitz/
Have you ever wanted to renovate your life? Have you ever wanted to do
something more on a road trip than just drive? These new stories by LB Sedlacek
will let you do both … at the same time!
Published by Alien Buddha Press
“The Renovator & Motor Addiction” by LB Sedlacek
I have two new poems in “Setu” magazine. You can read them here: https://www.setumag.com/2023/02/lb-sedlacek-western-voices-2023.html
Physics and Mechanics
Lie in skin
does it fit
just right and
how does it
feel tight loose
do you like
the color the
smoothness the way
it lays across
the bones do
you like the
way it feels
when someone else
touches it or
you nick it
or cut it
or turn it
every which way
and can you
keep it clean
free of toxins
chemicals or burns
words and actions
so you can
trade it in
get credit for
repairs or just
wear it as
long as it
belongs to you.
©2023 LB Sedlacek All rights reserved.
LB Sedlacek has had poems and stories appear in a variety of journals and zines. Her poetry books include “Swim,” “The Architect of French Fries,” “The Poet Next Door,” “Simultaneous Submissions,” “Happy Little Clouds,” and “Words and Bones.” Her short stories “Backwards Wink” and “Sight Unseen” both won 1st…
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New poetry book, Chasing Sunsets, of poems about Charleston, Daniel Island and of course Sunsets, now available!
There’s nothing better than watching a good sunset. All the colors: orange, red, yellow, pink are a sight to see. The sun blazes across the sky then dips down to sleep on that end of the earth at night.
This new book of poems by award winning poet LB Sedlacek involves the setting sun as well as place poems in Charleston and Daniel Island, South Carolina as well as the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina and West Virginia.
There’s just something about watching the sunset. Take time to stop and watch the sunset wherever you are!
I have a new short story called “Switching Gears” that was just published by EWR. You can read it here:
https://www.everywritersresource.com/shortstories/switching-gears-by-lb-sedlacek/
LB Sedlacek 
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