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I'm honored to have been nominated by Slippery Elm for a Pushcart Prize, for my short story "The New City." This is my third nomination...

"This Is Not a Story" is not a story. Or is it? Find out here.

I'm happy to announce that my short story "The New City" has just come out in Slippery Elm. The new city exists in a liminal place,...

I'm happy to say that one of my flash fiction stories was just published in Tiny Molecules. I wrote "The Hand Remembers" last summer, in...

I'm happy to announce that a short—I mean really short—story of mine was accepted to Complete Sentence (a magazine of single-sentence...

This essay is 100% apolitical. I promise. (It’s about hyphens and dashes.) (This post was originally published, in slightly different...

I just published the above-titled article at a lovely site called Inspired Writer. You can check it out here.

My wife and I recently visited Ojai, California, kind of a test to see if vacations are still possible these days. We decided to keep...

I'm happy to announce that one of my stories was just published in an Amsterdam journal called Expanded Field. In "Homecoming," a man...

I am writing an endless novel. It is one of those novels that requires a—let us say—extravagant use of my local libraries.

I am writing this post on February 17, 2020. Or, I could say, I am writing this post on 17 February 2020. Between the two datal formats...

Actually two miracles. Two thrift stores....

The obvious use of a vertical stack of books as a bookend on an open bookshelf (that is, open on the sides), in place of, for example, a...

On page 234 of Middlemarch (Penguin Books, 2003) I came across the word aërial ("... an immeasurable depth of aërial perspective"). Why...