Dan Leach

Dan Leach’s most recent book is the short-story collection Dead Mediums. He lives in South Carolina and is working on a series of essays about trash.
— From October 2023
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
The Ice Age
I could see others finding happiness, but whenever I approached it, an invisible sheet of ice stopped me from getting any closer. I could never cross over to the other side; I could only pound on the ice that never cracked.
October 2023
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Invitation
Maybe I write because I want visibility and invisibility, each on my own terms. I want you to accept these paragraphs as photographs from my mind, and I want these photographs to tell you something useful about me. Yet I don’t want you to see me.
October 2021
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