2019 Stories
2019 was a fun year for me in publishing. For the most part it all hit within a couple weeks: Smokelong, Pithead Chapel, and Bull. The first two are places
reading * writing * thinking
2019 was a fun year for me in publishing. For the most part it all hit within a couple weeks: Smokelong, Pithead Chapel, and Bull. The first two are places
If Tyler Barton had asked me to write a blurb for his chapbook The Quiet Part Loud (which might have been weird considering I’ve only met him once in a
Writers of At Least Three Books I Have Read and Loved: (I know it’s too dominated by white guys. Working on that. If you know of any good ones I’m
I’d like to share some ideas on beginnings that occurred to me after a recent run through the slush pile. REM wrote a great song called Begin the Begin on their album,
This is where it all ends. This is the opening lyric to the Cult’s 1989 album Sonic Temple. I remember it like it was yesterday. Standing in my dorm room,
Over the last several years I have written book reviews for Alternating Current and for the folks at Bath Flash Fiction. Here are my favorites: A Bright and Pleading Dagger
2013 was my first year publishing stories. Prior to that I had written things and thrown them up on my BlogSpot blog without much revision. I had started sharing them
This was my second story to appear in Red Savina Review. I think it came from a few different dreams, the kind that I will wake up from and
I wrote this story in a weekend workshop at Iowa Summer Writer’s Festival taught by Crazyhorse editor, Anthony Varallo. The premise of the class was the “three-jump story.” This was
2016 was a big year for me. I got 2nd in the Spring Bath Flash Fiction Award. They really run a great event. They announce quickly and the long/short