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Rootbound: a Novella

Robert Houseman believed he had left his past behind—util it showed up on his doorstep in the form of Carla…

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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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“Burn Scar”

31 Dec 201931 Dec 2019

The last day of the year, and the last of twenty-four stories to be published in journals in 2019! My story, "Burn Scar," has just appeared in an online and…

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Mini Review: “Always Happy Hour,” by Mary Miller

27 Dec 2019

Always Happy Hour, by Mary Miller Always Happy Hour is a satisfying and ultimately dismaying collection of short stories that could have been a country & western song, and probably…

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Mini-Review: Yiyun Li’s “Where Reasons End”

18 Dec 2019

I just finished Yiyun Li's Where Reasons End, which might be called a conceptual novel, an experimental novel, perhaps an experimental memoir, or perhaps just a heart-wrenching and intellectually-challenging good…

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“Love in Three Rooms”

16 Dec 2019

My short story, "Love in Three Rooms," has just appeared in Fear of Monkeys, which describes itself as "a magazine of politically-conscious writing." And my story does turn on realizations…

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Micro-Review: “Cities I Never Lived In,” by Sara Majka

12 Dec 201912 Dec 2019

I just finished a collection of linked short stories, Cities I've Never Lived in, by Sara Majka. This is a collection of linked short storiesI heard of from some ten-best…

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“Window Light”

30 Nov 2019

Another story published! After a long wait, my experimental flash fiction piece, "Window Light," is available in the print rag Here Comes Everyone, published in UK--along with two or three…

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Book Review: “Ducks, Newburyport,” by Lucy Ellman

30 Nov 2019

Ducks, Newburyport is a new novel both celebrated and feared for its audacity: a single stream-of-consciousness sentence nearly one thousand pages long, paused but not interrupted by concisely-written chapters of a…

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“Pigeons”

18 Nov 201918 Nov 2019

That makes two stories released into the wild in one day: this one explores the give-and-take between a married couple riding the tram to the next town over for dinner,…

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“The Last Word”

18 Nov 2019

My most recent story, a perfect-murder scenario with a twist of the knife inspired by Edgar Allen Poe, is available now in Down & Out Magazine, (volume 2 issue 1).…

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Live Reading in Downtown Los Angeles: Noir at Its Darkest

17 Nov 201917 Nov 2019

Readings by Switchblade Magazine authors at Ham n Eggs Tavern on Thursday, Nov. 21st starting at 7pm. 433 W. 8th St at Olive, in Downtown Los Angeles. I'll be reading…