He became a writer because it is a solitary pursuit, and since he had no friends, he figured why not turn a liability into an asset. Another option was being a shepherd, but mutton is his least favorite meat, and he couldn't play a reed flute. Also he’s the kind of guy who would worry too much about the flock. After all, they are out in all kinds of weather, and everyone knows wool shrinks when it gets wet.
Published in Star*Line, Fall 2013 Peaked green woolen cap clamped over spilling shaggy ringlets, goat-eyed, crude lips puckered amid the curled fire of his beard, he heaves into reed…
Published in Main Street Rag, 2009 For my teenage brother in a stolen Chevrolet, the exit ramps ahead were all possibilities, potential tangents boogying off into sunburned pastures surging…
Grand Prize Winner, Sidney Lanier Poetry Prize, April 2011 Sunset sips away its light from Gunderland Park, while the lynx-eyed blond girl in drill-bit curls waits to see which…
Published in Silver Blade Magazine, Fall 2013 A dragon named Fume lived in the mountainous dukedom of Etbourg. He was over three hundred years old, the size of an overweight…
Published in Metro Fiction, March 2014 Cody’s hospital room smelled of chlorine and peppermint. I waited while the nurse in a pink smock injected medicine into his IV drip. She…
Published by Crowded Magazine, September 2014, Australia Whistle Pig and Ale Jaella was translating Arabic ghazals into English when she felt Nagdaddy’s cringing terror, the spasm squeezing through her stomach. …
SOMETIMES YOUR WORST ENEMY IS INSIDE YOU. Is Amanda’s psychic ability a blessing or a curse? Recently widowed, she moves to a mountain town to quietly grieve and to…
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