Fiction

A short-fiction trio. Read More at The Collagist, Issue 5 »

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 at Fictionaut »

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

"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 at Blue Moon Review »

"It was in September, at the end of a long and perfectly placid summer, that Cara began to talk about getting a dog, or rather to behave as if she were dangerously on the verge of suggesting it." Read More at Virginia Quarterly Review »