Locked In, Locked Out
Yesterday, in Vending Machine Press, my flash fiction “Locked In, Locked Out.” Preview: Minnie pushes her shopping cart down the aisles and thinks about getting a car. Not to drive it, for she has nowhere to go, but to sit in it on…
Happy New Year!
The years pass without hard edges. Only our dates draw them apart. Our life doesn’t really consist of years but of periods defined by a before and after. So why celebrate New Year’s Eve? It seems unnecessary, totally artificial, unless…
Fiction and Nonfiction 2016
“Animal Puzzle” (short story) in: Denver Quarterly, July 2016 (print) NOMINATED FOR A PUSHCART PRIZE “Walls” (flash fiction) in: Okey-Panky (Electric Literature), October 2016 “The Last Gift” (essay) in: Tin House (online), January 2016 “The Empty Space in Front of Your Hand” (essay)…
Fiction and Nonfiction 2015
“The Hunter at the End of the Day” (flash fiction) in: Hobart “Back to Back” (essay) in: Word Riot “The Mindreader” (flash fiction) in: Hobart “Her Face in the Glass” (flash fiction), in: Flash: the Short short story magazine (print) “Snails and…
Fakeness
—You must stop the Social Media Crap. —Why? —It’s fake. Self-promotion. Making others witness your struggles, your success. Liking what they say. Typing pseudo-funny comments. Striking up conversations with complete strangers. At random. Getting them to like you. Need I…
Paris Attacks
I checked up on friends who lived in the area where the shootings took place. I browsed social media networks for information. I thought about all the times I had been in the Bataclan in the past. I replied to…