Multiplicity

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

The race recap will be coming in the next couple of days. Meanwhile, check out this story from Robert Swartwood. It's all about me!

Mother’s Day story

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010

I've got a new story coming out on May 26th at Every Day Fiction. This is a site I've been reading every day for the better part of a year, and have for the most part enjoyed almost every story I've read. They send you a short short story every ...

The Kandy Tooth

Friday, April 30th, 2010

Those of you who've been reading my blog since last year might remember that I visited a little island called Sri Lanka last year. During that journey, we stopped in a town that was once the capital of Sri Lanka, Kandy, where one of the most famous holy sights in ...

DailyLit

Friday, March 26th, 2010

In my continuing effort to read as much as possible -- I read physical books, own a Sony Reader, have my iPad on order, read Ed Lacy on my iPhone as well as subscribe to three literary journals -- I have found yet another way to add to the plethora ...

Something Like That

Monday, March 1st, 2010

My second story has been published at Halfway Down the Stairs. Check it out.

Don’t pay the ferryman until he gets you to the other side

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Read a great short this morning that took me back to my high school Latin class days. I haven't kept up with my "one short story a day" commitment, but I am still trying to read more shorts. When I stared at her in silence, she raised a wrinkled ...

E-books

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

It was bound to happen. Last week, The Atlantic announced that it would start selling two short fiction stories per month exclusively through the Amazon Kindle. I'm not against electronic publishing; I'm all for it, in fact. However, I think that electronic versions of should be made available across a wide ...

Sam in New York

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Sam Shepard, one of my favorite writers and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child, has a new story appearing in next week's New Yorker. It's official publication date is 23 November. That's my birthday. Thanks for the gift, Sam.

Aliens ate my Buick

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

A thousand years ago, as the native peoples of what is now Southern Utah traveled through the Parowan Gap to harvest desert resources, they would stop at a pass in the Red Mountains and inscribe etchings and markings on the stones and boulders. Over the years, as the indians passed ...