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
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
My flash story “Her Oriental Rug” will apprear in the December 1 issue of Halfway Down the Stairs, a themed volume on “Spark”! Yay! That’s two publications accepted within a
My poem, “Trailer Trash”, will appear in Synkroniciti Magazine in Volume 8, Number 3, Katherine McDaniel, editor and in an online e-book by them on September 15, 2026. To fellow
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
I’ll be attending the Kauai Writers Conference next week, where I will attend a Master Class on poetry with Tim Seibles and meet with some agents. This is an excellent
I will read something tonight at the WSU English Faculty Open Mic night, at Brused Books in Pullman, WA, from 18:00-19:00. Maybe I’ll read my new short story “Redletterjacket”, or
Tomorrow I’ll give a public reading of “Interview with a Trout,” “The Goddess Bastet,” and “The Points” at the Latah County Library in Moscow, Idaho, sometime between 18:00 and 20:00.
“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).