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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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“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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“The Crow Tree”

30 Mar 202130 Mar 2021
So, is this website named after the story, or the story named after the website? Ha: it is neither; the website and the story both were named after a long-lost…
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“Stucco Box”

25 Mar 202125 Mar 2021
My very Californian story, "Stucco Box," is available now (along with a great many other works in various media), from an ambitious new British magazine, En Bloc. The link is…
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Micro-Review: “Blindness”

6 Mar 2021
Blindness, by José Saramago Just finished Saramago's Blindness, a bad choice to read during an actual pandemic, but a excellent if often brutal novel...though it is really more of an extended…
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“A Yellow Tea Mug”

2 Nov 2020
Et voila! Another story has appeared in print (or should I say pixel) overnight: a somewhat abstract, or abstracted, musing on community in our difficult times…read "A Yellow Tea Mug"…
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Half a Face Is Better than None

27 Apr 202027 Apr 2020
There are pleasures to be found even in lockdown. There are discoveries to be made in the small minutes of living that make up so much more of our lives…
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The Minuet

22 Mar 202022 Mar 2020
The streets are blank of traffic on this epidemic Sunday, but there are people--not many--walking or even jogging on the sidewalks. There are groceries to go to, and anyway keeping…
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Signs from Heaven

21 Mar 2020
One thing I love about our apartment is its windows. We are on the second floor, and our street is narrow and bordered mostly with older, graceful buildings. There's a…

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