Books
New Andromeda Hotel
Here are aquatints of lost kings and queens, birdcages lined with maps of the heavens, and glass-covered boxes containing games with odd numbers of mismatched but exquisitely carved tokens and boards covered with intricate eye-bending geometries.
These are all forgeries.
Read it here.
Fog Marsh
When Daniel Braum returned to the idea of the Spirits Unwrapped chapbook and decided to edit a full anthology of unconventional mummy stories, he asked me to write one of them. For the chapbook, I’d written about a mummy from the Taklamakan Desert brought to the court of Khubilai Khan (in “The Tenth Hat“). This […]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 Sky Green Box
Set in a rather strange future, this story includes a sphinx, a long walk under the ocean, and a main character whose head is shaped like the crescent moon.
The Tenth Hat
When writer/editor Daniel Braum asked for a different kind of mummy story for his Spirits Unwrapped chapbook, I came up with this tale set at the court of Khubilai Khan.
The Moonless, the Midnight Eye, and the Season of the Last Gate
A day in a city with its own rules and rituals, including the ritual that marks Magda’s passage toward adulthood, as described by her friend who won’t have his own Kite Day for a year or more.
The Labyrinth Tourist
A short story about visiting interesting, faraway places appeared in the second issue of the print magazine Flytrap.