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In this very short story—you can read it here —the narrator (not I!!!) objectifies women and talks a lot about sex, maybe. I hope you like it.

First of all, I have stories coming to West Branch , Ninth Letter , and Pithead Chapel . I'll let everyone know when the stories are officially available. Should be soonish. In the meantime, I have a piece (let's not call it a story!) available online at The Militant Grammarian (one of those journals ballsy enough to publish my and others' oddest shit). Click the title below: "The Publication History of Constellations: A Novel by Ben Walter, by David David David, by W. B. B

I absolutely LOVE this new journal Swing . And not only because they had the balls to publish one of my odder pieces: "Phenakistoscope:...

"Velella velella" in Ninth Letter First of all, my story "Velella velella" was recently accepted by one of my favorite journals: Ninth...

A piece of mine was recently published in The Writing Disorder. In "Homeomorphism," a wounded soldier finds himself seated before a...

Yes, somehow I have managed to continue writing short stories while finishing my novella (and my novel). For those interested . . . One...

I'm very happy to announce that my first novella is now available from Buttonhook Press. I was recently interviewed by Open: Journal of...

Blood Orange Review recently published my short story "Łódź: Spring 2019, Observations." As some of you know, over the past decade or so...

A city of clouds, of sloping streets. A fortified castle at the meeting of two rivers. A valley among wooded hills. Each day as the sun...

I'm happy to have my experimental flash fiction story "The Signifiers of Our Dissolution" published by a great new journal: The Militant...

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.