Collections

My sixth collection of short works (fiction and poetry), written from September 2018 to June 2019.

Fiction

Marsa
The Item
Allegory
Phone Fantasy
The Black Book
Cathy
The Mission
The Pen and the Sword

Poetry

“Traumas at Fifteen”
“The Choice”
“Crisis Actors”
“Pollution”
“Poem in Two Acts”
“Yankee Donald Dandy”
“One Moment”
“On the Norm”
“Classic Power Struggle”
“Teaching Poem”
“Lesson Learned?”
“Reading Too Much Into Things”
“Same Student, or I Wish I Had Time for Teaching”
“Local Celebrity”
“I’m from New York”
“Sunny Weather”
“Classroom”

My fifth collection of short works (fiction and poetry), written from July to September 2018.

Fiction

Increasingly Incoherent Departures from the Norm
A Great Story
Masterman’s Revenge
Stories
Poetry in Motion
Justice

Poetry

“I Hate Everybody”

My fourth collection (fiction), written from December 2017 to July 2018.

“Thank you for the creative and empathetic portrayal in ‘Sisters’. . . . I think you did a great job crafting the scenes.”—Nkechi Diallo, author of In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World

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Fiction

The Fountain of Youth
Perpetual Motion, Inc.
A Fresh Beat
The Mistake
Sisters
Education II
The Time Before
The Penalty
Expedition Notebook
The Society of Sensitives
The One
Equilibrium
Shooting Day
The Network

Paper

Kindle

Also available at Kaleidoscope Sweets Boutique in West Linn, Oregon.

My third collection (fiction), written from September to December 2017, which began what became the Year of the Short Story for me.

Fiction