Fiction

“Mercury Rising”

A short story in the anthology Amazing Graces, edited by Richard Peabody.  Read More...

“Mercy”

A piece of flash fiction. I used to ride the D6 bus a lot. (Scroll down the page, which has several stories on it, to get to “Mercy.”) Read More...

“Twenty Questions,” “It’s Me,” “It’s You”

A short-fiction trio. Read More...

“Henry and the Hungry Hamper”

A 600-word rhyming romp about a little boy who 1) really needs a bath but 2) has to get past a very nasty laundry hamper first. Think Ogden Nash’s “The Tale of Custard the Dragon” or Roald Dahl’s “Vile Verses.” Want to see it? I’ve posted it over at Fictionaut. Read More...

“East of the Sun”

A short story in the anthology DC Noir, edited by George Pelecanos. Read More...

The Mason Takes a Wife

“They all envied me, that day I brought her home. Every one of them, the young men stupid and eager, the married men growing fat in middle age, the old ones creeping along on withered limbs. I could see it in their faces…” Read More...