Eric Sheridan Wyatt is the author of three story collections (including The Blues and the Oranges, Oh This Becoming, and Five Stories) and one novella (…And a Good Woman, Too).
Eric's short fiction has appeared in New Plains Review, Ruminate, Saw Palm, Silk Road Review, and Spark, among others.
His writing is characterized by “compelling characters caught up in intriguing circumstances” and offers “lingering moments of introspection” contrasted with “delightfully wistful humor.”
In Loco Parentis is his first novel.
Current Projects
Fiction is a strange interest to pursue...
Over the last four years, I've found myself struggling to find time (and energy) to write fiction. In 2024 I finished a draft of two short-story collections. One is an expansion of the "fictional triptych" I published called, Oh, This Becoming... and it will be a novel-in-stories which traces the whole arc of the two main characters of that book.
The second story collection is a follow-up to my first story collection, The Blues and The Oranges. Set in a Florida Gulf Coast town, these stories all happen in the months just before, and just after, Christmas in 2019. Everyday people, living everyday lives, unaware that the whole world will change in just a matter of months. The book is called, The Goose is Getting Fat.
However, not long after finishing this first completed draft—when I started the editing and revision process—I realized both collection need another story or two to be really complete. In the coming months, I hope to find the time to re-start the work on these two books, and then I'll be able to move on to the novels (I Should Love You Less, and The Books My Father Left Me) which have been brewing for years.
(Not to mention, I've had many new ideas bubbling up in recent months, which is always a good sign that maybe a season of prolific writing is on the way!)
If you'd like to see more of the books I currently have available, please go to the Books by Eric Sheridan Wyatt page, via this link.
There is also a page dedicated to my first full-length novel, In Loco Parentis.
