I’m excited to share the word that a new short story by M. G. Turner, “The Song of the World,” is published today in The Seaboard Review of Books. The story is an imagined meditation on the life of Homer, the blind bard, traditionally considered author of The Iliad and The Odyssey. The Seaboard Review of Books is a terrific publication that runs well-written book reviews, and I’m glad to see they’re also starting to publish original fiction, as with this story by M. G., who as some readers of this blog will know, is my adult son and a client of Philip Turner Book Productions, my literary agency.

Also in a classical vein like “The Song of the World,” I want to add that M. G. is also the author of a chapbook Roman Visions: A Story Cycle, which in 2025 was reviewed in The Seaboard Review of Books by its publisher James Fisher. He wrote, “Roman Visions picks up where Virgil’s The Aeneid abruptly ends: that of Aeneas defeating his archenemy Turnus. What became of this famed warrior thereafter? Mr. Turner cleverly takes up the challenge by framing the discovery of “Book 13: The Sorrows of Aeneas” in a late history professor’s desk, not composed by Virgil, but by the professor himself, an expert in the Greek Classics.”

You’ll find “The Song of the World” linked to here. I hope you enjoy reading the story. More of M. G.’s writing can be found here on The Great Gray Bridge.