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My Dog Can Read (Stanley Fish and Leo Strauss)
I’ve been writing and workshopping a story about a group of people living on a block of rowhomes and the glimpses they get of each other in passing. To the right you’ll find an excerpt. Who wouldn’t...
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D’yer Wanna Be A Spaceman? (Oh, Cardinal Directions! is up on Fictionaut)
Here’s a story I wrote two years ago. It workshopped very well, and peers and instructors I respect a great deal liked it. No mags want it, so I’m sharing it here. It’s up at Fictionaut. It’s also...
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We Just Want to be Tumblr Famous
I’ve been editing a collection of very short fiction for release in the near future. I’m inspired to finish by this from Alexander Kuhn: Tagged: Alexander Kuhn, short stories, writing
View ArticleWhere to Submit Short Stories in 2020
“In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you’ll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I...
View Article“Ms. Blumenthol” by Rolli
I really like what’s going on in this story by Rolli. And I only just now caught the pun in her name.
View ArticleIsaac Bashevis Singer on the State of the Short Story (circa 1980)
Although the short story is not in vogue nowadays, I still believe that it constitutes the utmost challenge to the creative writer. Unlike the novel, which can absorb and even forgive lengthy...
View ArticleForthcoming in June
I had a very encouraging string of publishing acceptances in May and now a new one in June. I’m going to use the phrase “very excited” in each of the paragraphs below, because I really, really mean it....
View Article“Clouds” at perhappened magazine
Check out the beautiful midway of poetry, prose, and hybrid work isaura ren and the editorial and artistic team at perhappened have created with their launch issue! I am very fortunate to have a short...
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