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.
Trailer available here.
“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