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Originally published in Word Riot, Mar 15, 2012 Just off the sidewalk, in the overgrown trashy patch of weeds separating our place from someone else’s, I...
Podcast originally published in Bound Off Short Story Podcast: Issue 70 U.S. Irregular U.S. Irregular Cop talks yak-yak-cop-talk, says, “Slathering fellow bad...
http://www.sporkpress Fatso In The Late Afternoon Mom had gone into the street and hired juveniles, urchins really. In boom times she might come back with...
My daughter called, ebullient verging on hysterical. “I’ve permed my hair!” Good, I thought, we have a topic, and edged our converation into the water. ...
The subway train rushes past my stop. I am not the only one screaming. An irritating crackle comes through the overhead speakers as though the motorman is being...
Pulling into the first motel we came too, I was given a key to a room already occupied by a fellow asleep atop a horse, a beautiful animal, but too large for the...
Originally published in Word Riot, Mar 15, 2011 I used to live a porous life governed by a pantheon of doubt, and this, I believe, is the reason I made no close...
http://sporkpress.com/weeklies/prose/archives/ I Hadn't Realized I'd Stopped One Until Anne Pointed Out The Hole In My Shirt Hardnosed, high velocity; the...
http://requitedjournal.com/index.php?/fiction/michael-k-meyers/ It is marvelous to be sure of something, she thought, and removed her shoes. Barefoot, she pushed...
Originally published in smokelong, Dec. 2010 Her New Friend Jesus We rarely see our child. When we sense her presence one of us calls out, “Where are you going...
Originally published in Electica, Oct 2010 Making Everything Better After an unpleasant encounter with Emma's mountain gorilla, whose shock collar she had...
Originally published in The 2River View, September 2010 Living Thing A U.P.S. man, a large cardboard box at his feet, was on the porch. The side of the box facing...
Podcast originally published in Bound Off, #54 for July 2010 Wrestling Walter Benjamin I invent my wife. Sometimes, according to her it’s she who invents...
Originally published in Word Riot, June 2010 I make more than my brother, but because I don’t spend like him, I know I will owe the government the bundle our tax...
Part 1. Goliath, his wife, his daughter and her hand. Part 2. Explaining a performance art project to people eating breakfast in Denny’s. Part 3. What I...