Announcement… “The Light Inside” 30 Apr 2022 My short story, "The Light Inside," centers on illness, work, compromise, and memory, and the conflicts of a too-demanding life on a married couple. At just over 2200 words, it…
Announcement… In Print 17 Oct 202117 Oct 2021 My two copies of The Vincent Brothers Review arrived today, bearing my story, "The Silence," as well as eight other short stories, twenty-nine poems, four nonfiction works, and eleven pieces…
Announcement… “The Silence” 20 Sep 202120 Sep 2021 I'm beginning to like September…yes, another short story out! "The Silence" appears in The Vincent Brothers Review issue #24, a print publication. The story is a conclusion to a loose…
Announcement “Best of 2020” 21 Jun 2021 A quick note: My story, "The Mechanical Dancer," has been included in Potato Soup Journal's "Best of 2020" anthology, a collection of 75 stories in total. Available now in print…
Announcement… “Blank Wall” and “Mud and Salt” 15 Mar 2021 Two of my recent poems have just appeared in the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of The Wayfarer, an excellent compendium of essays, interviews, poems, and regular columns on a variety of…
Announcement… “The Waiting Room” 11 Mar 2021 This was a relief: after a February devoid of publications (though fortunately not of acceptances!), one of my short stories has appeared in print and pixel.... "The Waiting Room" is…
Announcement… “The Finn Girl, or Woman” 1 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 My short story, "The Finn Girl, or Woman," has just appeared in the first volume of what hopes to be an annual collection, called Fiction Junkie. This is a new…
Announcement… “The Wedding” 1 May 20201 May 2020 My short story, "The Wedding," has just come out in North Dakota Quarterly, published by the University of Nebraska Press. The fiction editor cut the short last paragraph, but the…
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…
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…
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