Short fiction:
- “Some Assembly Required” (Literally Literary Magazine, Vol. I, Issue III) (Print/PDF)
A young woman assigned to write stereo instructions slowly reveals her traumatic past and hopeful future.
- “The Coxwell Baby” (Medium)
A young man’s booze-soaked journey through Los Angeles with his agent leads to surprising revelations about the childhood incident that made him famous.
- “Sarabande No. 3” (Medium)
A gas station attendee learns an important lesson about trusting the wrong person.
- “The Three Oleksandrs” (Medium)
Two identical men who once doubled a mysterious Russian businessman in public compare their surprising life stories.
- “Bernsey, Aflame” (Medium)
A sandwich shop worker’s romantic flights of fancy become increasingly difficult to separate from reality.
- “Dayton Abraham’s War” (Medium)
A stressed-out teenager deals with two firsts: a first zit and a first kiss.
- “Late Fare” (Medium)
A weathered cab driver takes a late-night fare on a final journey.
- “The Toothbrush Incident” (Medium)
A surreal bathroom conversation leaves a young boy with a lot to think about.
Blog:
- One letter at a time (2005-2013)
I called it “a blog about reading, writing, and the like,” and it kept me busy during an initial stretch of time where I was writing for myself pretty regularly. Some good stuff there, including:
- A writeup of Rafael Dieste’s fascinating book Tales and Inventions of Felix Muriel, information about which seems to be scarce online
- An appreciation of Thomas Pynchon’s doorstop classic Gravity’s Rainbow, in which I, like everyone who has ever read it, try to make sense of the experience
- A dishy account of an encounter I once had with a Writer Of Some Note, whose identity I will not reveal
- A writeup of Stephen Wright’s Civil War novel The Amalgamation Polka, in which I found that the then-newest work from one of my top-five favorite writers didn’t really land with me
- Author profile of Arthur Koestler, a fascinating writer and complicated fellow (to say the least), whose book about creativity, The Act of Creation, is a must-read
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