Announcement… “The Beginning of Time” 12 Feb 202012 Feb 2020 Another flash fiction piece appeared today: my thousand-word story, "The Beginning of Time," available online at Quantum Shorts, a site run by the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore. All stories they…
Announcement… CANCELLED: Live Reading in Echo Park on March 25th 7 Feb 202014 Mar 2020 This even has been cancelled because of coronavirus protocols. It will be rescheduled, and we will repost when we have a new date. Our apologies for the inconvenience. Five Los…
Announcement… “The Meeting” 28 Jan 202028 Jan 2020 Flash fiction: literature in doses as small as a bullet...and as hard-hitting, if you do it right. And apparently I did: my very short story, "The Meeting," appeared today on…
Announcement… “Vengeance in Gray” 14 Jan 202014 Jan 2020 Here we go again! A new story published today: you can read "Vengeance in Gray," as well as a delightfully long list of poems, artworks, and other stories, in Backchannels…
Announcement… “The Day It Almost Snowed” 4 Jan 20209 Oct 2020 Looks like 2020's getting off to a rollicking start, with yet another story published! True, the last two were supposed to have been published in December, but they actually appeared…
Announcement… “Blame It on the Moon” 3 Jan 2020 Sure, the magazine's date says, "December 16, 2019," but, it didn't appear till today. So I count this publication as my first story to appear in 2020. It's in the…
Announcement “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…
Announcement… “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…
Announcement… “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…
book review 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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