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Fiction and Essay

Magazines and Journals:

  • "When October is Almost Dead in the Ground" as seen in Amazon's Day One
  • "Rolling Boil" at WhiskeyPaper
  • "New Game Plus" at Cartridge Lit
  • "The Goya" at Fjords Review
  • "Snow" at Atticus Review
  • "HTLV-III" at Five Chapters
  • "Vinni Pukh" in issue 79 of AGNI
  • "Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth" at The Collapsar
  • "Oh My Darling" at Cheap Pop
  • "Crisis on Infinite Earths" in issue 3.2 of Heavy Feather Review
  • "If You Need Help" at Monkeybicycle
  • "Bedtime for Bonzo" and "Nothing But (Flowers)" at Squalorly
  • "Man in Motion" at Necessary Fiction
  • "Half the Battle" at decomP magazinE
  • "Match Game Seventy Blank" at SmokeLong Quarterly
  • "We Eat Plums" at Paper Darts
  • "We All Had Magic Powers Once" at Fringe 
  • "Dogs Playing Poker" at NANO Fiction
  • "The New Coke" at The Cleveland Review
  • "Cut the Crap" at A Bad Penny Review
  • "E.T.! Phone Home!" at PANK
  • "The United Federation of Planets" at PANK
  • "The Lexmark" at Hot Metal Bridge
  • "The Sad Ballad of Evelyn Bauer" in West Trade Review


Great Moments in Cinematic Drinking, my ongoing series at Hobart:

  • Scrooged
  • Jaws
  • Die Another Day
  • Live and Let Die
  • Goldfinger
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Tommy
  • The Thing
  • The World's End
  • Silkwood
  • Lost in Translation
  • High Fidelity
  • Gremlins
  • The Shining
  • The Bad News Bears
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan


Anthologies:
  • "Return to Oz," my essay in Bring the Noise: The Best Pop Culture Essays From Barrelhouse
  • "December in the Railroad Earth" my tribute to Jack Kerouac in Desolation Blues: A Beat Anthology


Craft Essays and Interviews:
  • An interview about my stint guest reading for Smokelong
  • My bio page on the NEA Writer's Corner
  • An interview for Heavy Feather Review's "Contributors' Corner"
  • An interview for Quiddity's 5Q4Q feature, on their tumblr
  • An interview about my story, "Match Game Seventy Blank" with Brandon Wicks of Smokelong
  • "The Flash!" -- A piece I wrote for NANO Fiction's "State of Flash" series
  • An interview conducted by the fine people at PANK 


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