“Two?” to appear in Flash Phantoms
My flash piece “Two?” will appear on 1 November in Flash Phantoms! This story began life in Jess Walter’s workshop on short stories at the 2024 Kauai Writers Conference. Our assignment was to write a story on a cocktail napkin. I took the additional challenge: write a story that HAS to be written on a […]
New motto
I have over 100 agent rejections (mostly crickets) and over 200 rejections of short stories and poems. And here’s my new motto: I can write them faster than you can reject them. Take THAT cruel publishing world.
Too many fake users
I have too many fake users registering for my site, so I am turning off user registration. You still need to register to log in and post comments. So, if you want to do that (and you are human) contact me directly and I’ll add you to the site. I also deleted all users from […]
Short Story to appear in Jersey Devil Press
“Interview with a Trout at a Sidewalk Cafe in Amsterdam,” a 720 word surreal meditation on mortality, Just appeared in the April 2025, issue 128, of Jersey Devil Press (https://www.jerseydevilpress.com/?page_id=8984). Amazingly, they accepted the story less than two weeks after I finished it!
Lots of submissions
I just submitted several poems and short stories. Since I stopped worrying about finding an agent for “To Bury Lilly” my productivity has been explosive. See the blog for why I (temporarily) stopped looking for an agent, and “Current Projects” in the top menu to see what I’ve been up to.
“Now You See Me” (short story) short-listed again
Synkroniciti (a very nice literary magazine) short listed my short story NOW YOU SEE ME, but passed on it in the end. That’s the fourth award this (still unpublished, debut) short story has won. Hey, world: you’re missing something special here. NOTE: Synkronicity published a re-written version (see News). World, show your gratitude to Synkroniciti!