Long and short fiction and memoir published in print and on-line journals and in anthologies. Some of these stories also appear in What They Don't Know: Selected Fiction.
Memoir
Eclectica Magazine, “My Body Is My Biz,” Vol. 26, No. 4, November 2022, Spotlight article for this issue. Reprinted May 21, 2023 on The Rialto Report.
Stories
The Write Launch, “Ashes of Old Lovers,” September 2023.
Arlington Literary Journal, “The Nymphs at the Vagabond Motel," Issue 183, August 2023. Reprint, previously published in Poydras Review,* April 2018.
Workers Write! Tales From the Club (anthology from Blue Cubicle Press, edited by David LaBounty), “Boondocks,” April 2023. Reprint, originally published in The Dickens, 2001+
The Write Launch, “Transit Visa to Redemption,” Issue 52, August 2021
Big City Lit, “At the Casino with Two Jacks,” Summer 2020. Nominated for a Pushcart prize.
Change Seven, “Our Late Lamented Union,” Spring 2020
The Copperfield Review, “The Emperor's Cloak,” November 2019
The Write Launch, “The Good Samaritan,” Issue 27, July 2019
Spank the Carp, “I Found Your Leg," Pond 51, June 1, 2019
The Write Spot: Memories (print anthology edited by Marlene Cullen),
“Our Happiness," May 2019
Valparaiso Fiction Review, “Crossing Borders," Vol. 8, Issue 1, Winter 2018
Amsterdam Quarterly, “Family Again," AQ23-Genealogy, September, 2018;
also in Amsterdam Quarterly 2018 Yearbook, p. 92.
Five on the Fifth, “The Dude Who Stole Her New Shoes," Vol. 3, Issue 1,
November 5, 2017
*The Rush, “The Vase," June 2017
Valparaiso Fiction Review, “Learning a Language," Vol. 6, Issue 2, May 2017
Lime Hawk, “Loma Prieta Bridgework,” Issue 11, February 2017
Redux, reprint of “Intruders,” May 2014.
Originally published in The Florida Review, 1988+
Pithead Chapel, “Miss Kelly Citation Tire,” February 2014+
*Prick of the Spindle, “Body Parts,” Vol. 7.1, March 2013 (click to read pdf)+
The Summerset Review, “The Luckiest Man Alive,” Fall 2010+
95% Naked (anthology edited by Dan Coshnear), “Soap,” 2010
The Dickens, “A Devil of a Girl,” 2000+
Other Voices, “Each After Its Kind,” 1989 (read it at: chapbooks-online)+
Room of One’s Own, “What They Don’t Know,” 1986+
Flash and Micro Fiction
Microfiction Monday, “Traveling Salesman, 1927,” 163rd edition, December 5, 2022 (100 words)
Flash Fiction Magazine, “Anna's Hummingbird,” May 16, 2020
Flash Fiction, reprint of “Liberating,” July 9, 2019.
Originally published in The Adroit Journal, 2013
The Write Spot to Jumpstart Your Writing: Discoveries, October 2017
(print anthology edited by Marlene Cullen):
• “All the Little Savages”
• reprint of “Long Shadows Cast by Mars,”
originally published in Flashquake, Vol. 9, Issue 2, Winter 2010*
• reprint of “So Small an Outrage,”
originally published in Roman Candles, 2004*
Peacock Journal, “Chins Up,” January 2017
Panoplyzine, “Mother's Day,” May 2016 (116 words)
Penhouse Ink, Vol. 3: Remembering Our Future, “Give Us This Day,” 2004
Novel (in progress)
Embark, A Map of the Mind (opening pages), July 2017
*Journal website now off-line
+Also published in What They Don't Know: Selected Fiction