Issue Fifty-One of SmokeLong Quarterly is out today and my story “Copycat” is featured within this great collection. Preview of “Copycat” That summer after Jan-Willem left me, I was after Jasper, a twenty-one-year-old surf instructor in Scheveningen who was always in…

Proud to have a story out in Matchbook this week. It happens to be one of my favorites.  “On Monday, under the weight of routine, she’s nothing but sloppy and dull-eyed, like the unhappy housewives you see pushing shopping carts in…

Today, in Atticus Review‘s Filtered Light issue, a short essay of mine was published. From “Fraying“: Give me another life and I’ll say all the right things at the right moments. >> continue reading >>  

Sixteen years ago, my father died. Today, Tin House published my flash memoir in defense of euthanasia as a tribute in The Open Bar. Preview of “The Last Gift” January 20th, 2000, The Netherlands Believe it or not, nobody objected. Not one of us…

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…

“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)…