Announcement… “Nobody’s Favorite” 24 Jul 2020 My story, "Nobody's Favorite," was just published online in The Abstract Elephant Magazine. Yes, you can read it for free in a journal with a peculiar moniker! (The name refers…
Announcement… “The Parking Lot” 20 Jul 2020 My latest short story to appear is "The Parking Lot," available now in Rock and a Hard Place magazine's issue 3, in print or Kindle. Rock and a Hard Place…
Announcement… “Inside the Walls” 15 Jul 2020 After a dry June, with magazines finding it difficult to work amid both a pandemic and a vigorous protest season, I've got a credit to tell of: my short story…
Announcement Coming Soon, to a Small Screen Near You…in Fact, Probably in Your Hand 9 Jul 2020 Yesterday I was recorded reading a story and answering the usual writerly interview questions by the editors of Rock and a Hard Place magazine, a publication dedicated to "stories of…
Announcement… “The Mechanical Dancer” 19 Apr 202019 Apr 2020 A new story of mine has just appeared in Potato Soup Journal. Available free to read online! Go to: "The Mechanical Dancer" Although this is a stand-alone story, it is…
Announcement… “Six Poems” 7 Apr 20207 Apr 2020 Here we go: issue #41 of Cholla Needles magazine just came out, and it includes six of my recent poems, being: "To the Remembered" "Has to Be" "This Box of…
Announcement… “The Unburdening” 4 Mar 20204 Mar 2020 Latest publishing news: my short story, "The Unburdening," has just appeared in English and in Russian translation in print rag Night Picnic, available so far on Amazon, and presumably elsewhere…
Announcement… “The Swimming Pool” 16 Feb 202016 Feb 2020 My longish short story, "The Swimming Pool," has just appeared in Torrid Literature Journal's volume XXV, available in print only at Amazon right now. While it is not free, at…
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…
Author post Local Poetry and a Cause for Optimism 24 Jan 2020 An odd and pleasing transaction: I had sent a short story to a magazine I found in one of the listings I use, and it was gently rejected the same…