First published March 2020 in Murder-A-Go-Go’s, edited by Holly West (Down & Out Books) Our Lips Are Sealed by Lori Rader-Day When the credits for the movie the girls weren’t supposed to be watching started to roll, Colbie went to check that her mother was asleep,…
OH! I forgot something. I finally finally finally got my contributor’s copy of the anthology Dia de los Muertos, in which my story “The Catrinas Will Dance With Any Boy They Like” appears. The cover looks like this:My story is the last in the book, which I…
Totally geeked out that the anthology Dia de los Muertos, which includes my story “The Catrinas Will Dance With Any Boy They Like,” is now available…on Amazon.com! It’s like I’m a real writer or something. It’s also available directly from the publisher (using Paypal or by sending…
My story, “Man Remade,” is up at Stirring. Whatever you’re doing, wouldn’t you rather be reading a short story?
“You Arrive at Plan B” was the first place winner of the Dallas International Book Fair short story contest in 2008, originally published in Al Amanecer (“At Dawn”), a literary journal that defies Google. Thanks to Miriam and the Dallas Public Library for running the contest, and…
My story, “Low Life,” is just out in the new issue of Southern Indiana Review. It’s pretty! Not as easy to get as a Good Housekeeping, sure, but chock full of stories by people I’ve heard of and read, including Lee Martin and Joe Meno. “Low Life”…
Extremely excited to offer you a link to Freight Stories, where my story “The Summer Ahead” now lives. It’s living well, too. Look how pretty it is, how well edited, how well fed. Writers, take note. The editors, Andrew Scott and Victoria Barrett, were great to work…
Did 1045 words at Caribou Coffee today. A little bit of socializing, because who did I see at Caribou? Another RU student. This time, one of the MFA students (Katie.) This is a different Caribou Coffee in a totally different part of the Chicagoland area, but my…
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