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Short Stories



"Preludes."  The Journal (forthcoming, likely in 36.1 Spring/Summer 2012).
"Bronzed." Secret Journal Magazine (forthcoming).
"Making Ketchup."  The Tusculum Review (Winter 2102).
"The Exile Suite."  Pear Noir!  (No. , Winter 2012), 2-12.
"You Okay?" REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters  (Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2011), 122-129.
“Big Baby Hot.  Big Baby Cold.  Big Baby in the Pram Five Days Old.”  The Florida Review  (Vol. 35, No. 2).
"Reality." Wonderfort (September 2011).
“The Boy and the Palm Reader.” (co-written with Jenniey Tallman).  The Collagist (January 2011).
“The Christmas Bird.”  Metazen Christmas Charity E-Book.  Ed. by Frank Hinton.  (Metazen) December 2010.
“Reed Sees Himself.”  The Normal School Vol. 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2010), 73-75.
 “Blue Fish Apocalpyse #12 & 35.” Hobart Online (September 2010).
“Hemingway and Fitzgerald Drinking on La Rue Delambre.” The Ear Hustler (Issue 1, September 2010): 20-34.
“Monkey-Men in Office Suite 209.” in On the Clock: a Book of Post-Industrial Fiction.  Ed. by Maday, Josh and Vande Zande, Jeff.  (Huron, OH: Bottom Dog Press, Inc.), 130-149.
“More of the Same.”  Mid-American Review (Vol. XXX, No. 1 & 2).  229-241.
“A Memo from Arachnid Productions.”  The Pedestal Magazine (No. 58, June 2010).
“Twirly.” Waccamaw (No. 5—Spring 2010)
“Dining by Candlelight.”  Pank Magazine (March 2010)
“Donald Rumsfeld Saved From Foreign Words.”  Black Warrior Review 36.2 (Spring/Summer 2010): 19-30.
“Kind and Merciful.” Keyhole 9 (Fall 2009): 94-112.
“Monkey-Men in Office Suite 209.” Beloit Fiction Journal 22 (Spring 2009): 100-109.
“Rabbit Juice (Jus du Lapin).” Shakespeare’s Monkey Review 2:2 (January – April 2009): 26-27.
“Young Nihilist Seeks Other.” Gargoyle 53 (Summer 2008): 238-243.
“Monkey Tails.” NorthPoint (17 May 2008): n.p. [Electronic publication: no longer available].
"Acquiescence.” Web Conjunctions (29 November 2007)     
"God’s Green Earth.” Pindeldyboz (3 May 2006).
"Diseases in the Critter Population." Red Rock Review 17 (Summer 2005): 135-143.
"Sad Children Crying." The Portland Review 51:3 (2004): 91-96.

Essays & Reviews


Review of Weston Cutter's YOU'D BE A STRANGER, TOO.  The Collagist (April 2011).
Review of Amelia Gray’s MUSEUM OF THE WEIRD. The Collagist (December 2010).
Review of Matthew Sallesess’s OUR ISLAND OF EPIDEMICS.  The Collagist (November 2010).
“Note from the Editors.”  (with Manisha Sharma) The New River (Fall 2008).
“Reader’s Report from a Jonathan Safan Foer Event: Is Foer Our First Post-Literate Writer?” MaudNewton.com (23 March, 2005).