Flash Fiction
Invisible Edge Cities: Calvino Remixes
I created a series of four flash fiction pieces for a gallery exhibition in early 2019 at Ohio Northern University. The exhibition featured comics and fiction created through the use of creative constraints, inspired by the Oulipo group, of which Italo Calvino was a member. I mixed word lists derived from some of the pieces […]
The Daily Cabal
For about four years, I was part of group of writers who delivered a new flash fiction story every weekday at The Daily Cabal. During that time, I contributed a story or two each week.
I’ve got links to twelve of my favorites below.
The Slow-time Man
We never let birds nest on him, even though the flat of his top hat was popular roost.
Read it here.
The Third Golem
Little is known of the activities of the celebrated writer Jorge Luis Borges after he faked his own death in 1986.
Read it here.
A Winter’s Fantasy
As we expected, the hard part was getting the ice skates on the alligator.
Read it here.
Doppelganger
Walking home from school, I’d see him on the other side of the street, walking just as slow or fast as I did, swinging a Six Million Dollar man lunchbox that had dents in all the same places as mine.
Read it here.
Fragments of a Distant Future
There’s a shivering you feel in the air, and you can tell it’s coming from outside you, not inside.
Read it here.
The Transdimensional Traveler’s Guide to Which Alternative Reality is Which in 10 Easy Questions
For each question there may be more than one correct answer.
Read it here.
Sea of Crises
From the empty apartment, we heard official confirmation: the moon had started targeting earthside cities.
Read it here.