Tag: prose

  • New Reviews on Full Stop

    I have been a little delinquent in updating this site over the last few months as I worked on several projects. Some of those project were book reviews. First up, is Selah Saterstrom‘s powerful and eloquent short book, Rancher. Containing one long essay about sexual assault, both in the author’s history and in history more…

  • New Essay – The Brain of Ozzy – Essay Daily

    Essay Daily always features fun and creative ways to think about writing essays. One of their ongoing events is their semi-annual advent calendar featuring one new essay each day of December leading to Xmas. This year’s theme was cover essays. Think like cover songs, but with essays. Participating writers chose an essay to cover and…

  • New Story – Misoprostol – Fugitives and Futurists

    Fugitives and Futurists were kind enough to share my story, “Misoprostol.” The pic above is the image the editors of the site chose to accompany the story. It’s a very short piece of near-future science fiction that imagines how prohibition of reproductive rights will manifest similarly to drug prohibition. As someone who grew up around…

  • New Story – If the Odds Don’t Change – Euphony

    My story, “If the Odds Don’t Change” is in the Winter/Spring 2021 issue of Euphony. The story follows Simon and Mickey, two high school teacher colleagues, on a frustrating ride home from a bar. “If the Odds Don’t Change” was inspired by conversations I had many years ago with my friend, Bill Sweeney. Bill was…

  • New Story – Inherit My Life – Expat Press

    My new story, “Inherit My Life,” is up at Expat Press. It’s the first in my “metal” series to be published and tells the tale of a young Hessian who encounters freedom in the poverty of others. I’m really digging Expat Press! Check out my story here.

  • Interview – Frankie Rollins and The Grief Manuscript

    I recently interviewed my good friend, Frankie Rollins, about her book, The Grief Manuscript, which is available from Finishing Line Press. The Superstition Review featured our interview as part of their Authors Talk series. You can hear our interview here.

  • New Story – Everyday Augury – Little Rose Magazine

    Gregorio Tafoya, editor of Little Rose Magazine, read my story in Hobart (Hari Kari) and dug it enough that he invited me to contribute something to his site. I’m very thankful for the opportunity to share my story, Everyday Augury. I found plenty of interesting reads on Little Rose, so check them out. Everyday Augury…

  • Book Review – Cold Water Canyon by Anne-Marie Kinney

    The new print edition of Rain Taxi features my review of Anne-Marie Kinney‘s new novel, Coldwater Canyon. It’s kind of a Hollywood noir story told from the perspective of a stalker. Unsettling and compelling. As you can read in my review, I enjoyed it. You can read the review from Rain Taxi. (You gotta buy…

  • New Story – Swamp Yankee – Worcester Review

    I remember reading The Worcester Review in Tatnuck Booksellers in the mid-nineties as an undergrad at Assumption College and thinking it would be cool to see words I wrote in print. It only took me twenty years, but my story, Swamp Yankee, is in volume 39 of The Worcester Review. It’s a story about a…

  • New Story – Ponderosa – Manifest West: Transitions and Transformations

    Manifest West: Transitions and Transformations is the Fall 2018 installment in this series from Western Press Books. I’m happy to say that my story, Ponderosa, is featured among so many other great stories. As a wanderer named Phillip and his dog Osa explore a Ponderosa pine forest on Arizona’s Mogollon Rim, the lines between Phillip’s…