Welcome to The Brabblefield.

I’m Phil Barcio, an award-winning author and arts reporter based in Muncie, Indiana. Bob Ross filmed The Joy of Painting here. His studio is a little museum now. It’s full of happy little trees.

The Brabblefield is where I share some of the writing I get published elsewhere, after whomever published it is finished making money off it : ) The name is a reference to Gift of the Brabblefly, my first short story to make it into a real literary journal, years ago.

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