“Zeus Kinker” appeared in the first online issue of Sortes on April 9, 2020 (coronavirus quarantine time). It’s about a snow-like infestation of a glittering clinking cursive word and a train to the future that runs on a circular track. Its first paragraph ends with three consecutive repetitions of the operative word.
“The Black Opal Ring,” my first published story in something like six years, appeared in Issue 13 of Miracle Monocle, University of Louisville lit mag extraordinaire, on December 2, 2019.
A longish story called “Incantation for Beard Reattachment” (title comes from this scene in Don Quixote) appeared in the Spring 2013 print issue of The Normal School (Cal State, Fresno). Not online.
A ranty little story appeared in the excellent print issue #3 of Ghost Town, edited by Kevin Moffett, published by Cal State, San Bernardino. Also online. (My ambition in life is to become immortal and then die — also to publish in every Cal State lit journal.)
A story involving virtual baseball, Atum Ra, and Thorstein Veblen was published in 2008 in the third print issue of Canteen (a beautiful now-defunct print journal of stories and essays about artistic processes that had some connection to a restaurant of the same name, I think)
A semi-illustrated story called Carry Me Father No More is at AGNI (venerable Boston University literary journal) in May 2007.
Another story appeared in the 2007 Fall/Winter print edition of The Black Warrior Review (University of Alabama). In print only.
Select older stories, some written in the mid-to-late ’90s, appeared here:
- The Barcelona Review (also in Spanish)
- What’s Your Exit?: A Literary Detour Through New Jersey (Word Riot; 2010)
- The Encyclopedia of Exes (Three Rivers Press; 2005 — a stranger noted my contribution in a kind Amazon review)
Over the years, the first few of the current century particularly, I also posted dozens of stories and little oddities on Eyeshot including a story about a Michael Jackson impersonator in Madrid that first appeared in a 2005 print edition of Pindeldyboz. If you scroll to the end of the archive, you’ll find a lot of these early short oddities and essayettes.