Fiction

No additions to this page will forthcome any time soon.  Should demand arise, I could pad it by dipping into my files of the unpublished, the unlikely-to-be-published, and the publishable-only-in-an-alternate-universe-with-much-lower-standards.

Paradiso

“Grimm was in the atrium of Paradise Mall when the timber wolves took down their first dachshund. The breeding pair, released in the hardware department of Sears, had begun adapting to their environment, learning to forage on its fauna. …”

Gulf Coast, Winter 1999, Vol. XI, Number 1 (Read)

Nothingness and Being

“When I began to treat imperceptibility that syndrome’s very existence was controversial; and to this day the aetiology of sub-sensible presentation remains obscure. (Is it somatic or psychological? Is inaudibility, for example, a mere cry for help?) …”

crazyhorse, Fall 2002, Number 62 (Read)

The Tarski Captivity

“Tara set her Barbie on our stoop, rang the bell, and slipped her paperwork through the mail slot: birth certificate and receipt for the doll, letters of reference, parents’ three most recent tax returns. I admitted Tara, while Meg inspected Tara’s backpack and Molly took Barbie to the bathroom for a full-body search. …”

Denver Quarterly, Spring 2002, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Read)

Gregor Samsa Checks His Spam

“Gregor Samsa awoke from uneasy dreams, not to seek relief for the bladder but compelled rather to grope for his unheimlich computing device and rouse it from stupor by pokes of the finger, anxious to discover what quantity of items lurked in its vault of spam. …”

Pinch, Spring 2025, Vol. 45-1 (Read)