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Journey through the Shadowlands: a Middle-Grade Fantasy Novel

Journey through the Shadowlands, published by Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, is a middle-grade fantasy novel with a social conscience, following…

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Family Ties: a Novel

Finders, Losers A lakeside cabin in the Sierra foothills, a canyon village divided between old coots and laid-back hippies, and…

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The Dust Will Answer: a Novel

No Lofts, No Lattes. No Law. 1978: The wave of gentrification has yet to break over downtown Los Angeles, and…

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“Three Poems”….

28 Mar 202328 Mar 2023

Three of my poems have just been published in print rag Awakenings Review. They are: "Ghost in the Window" "The Air like Water" "Between the Walls" Written at various times,…

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Thoughts on First Drafts

22 Mar 2023

I'm one of three writers interviewed on this "Words to Write By" podcast series this week (the others being Delta James and M. J. Brunnabend), and the subject being first…

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“Fried Baloney Sandwiches”

23 Feb 2023

This tragicomic story of a homeless man and his birthday debacle explores community, endurance, memory, and hope, and is based on the folks I met and came to know over…

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“The Empty Room”

7 Feb 20237 Feb 2023

My experimental short story, "The Empty Room," has just appeared in Del Sol Review. Though it's necessary peculiar, I think readers will find a certain pleasing tension in it. It…

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“The Deep Blue Sea”

21 Jan 2023

My short story, "The Deep Blue Sea," is now available in the Arlington Literary Journal, aka ArLiJo. The story centers on work, class, race, family, comradeship, and, of course, the…

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“Snappy Dresser”

4 Jan 2023

My story, "Snappy Dresser," is available at Empyrean Magazine until around March 20th; this journal has the odd habit of deleting issues from its archive after a certain time. Anyway,…

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“The Tributary”

30 Dec 202230 Dec 2022

My short story, "The Tributary," has just appeared in the winter issue of Lamplit Underground. It's a strange little tale of love, death, and the rat race, not too long,…

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“Four Crows”

19 Dec 202219 Dec 2022

My latest story to be published, "Four Crows," explores a neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, the failing efforts of a group of residents to agitate for a park instead…

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“On the Boardwalk”

3 Oct 20223 Oct 2022

For my third appearance in Night Picnic, the editors chose my very California story, "On the Boardwalk." It's set on the famous strip of eccentrics and merchants in Venice Beach,…

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“Snookums”

21 Sep 202221 Sep 2022

An elegant yet extremely silly story of mine has just appeared in a journal called The Writing Disorder, and it manages to present a character who is both pedantic and…