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Rhapsody in Five Parts
(pub. April 2012, Assisi Journal)
“The day had unmasked like any clear sign of November, with its diminished general street traffic and sudden shifts of wind, and the day had opened over a place somewhere, out there remotely, where distant roads run seemingly forever and if and when we see a car, it must certainly purposefully be there.”
A War for Rigoberto Chismón
(pub. March 2012, Storyscape Journal)
“Rigoberto Chismón sat on his empty milk crate by the building stoop. The spring morning had hurled its fresh breeze onto the street since dawn, rattling the empty soda…”
the Mayor’s Narract
(pub. January 2012, Anemone Sidecar)
“At the end of three consecutive terms in office, Mayor Andreandino Bruno walked into his office and found three women lying across the floor beside his mobile desk…”
That Nikolai
(pub. December 2011, The Adroit Journal)
“It’s difficult to describe just how quickly my mother has always leapt to correct me, over coffee on the building stoop or tea on the rickety fire escape, or even during breakfast on our third floor landing…”
Patricia Rimbaud
(pub. April 2011, Slash Pine Anthology 2011)
“Patricia Rimbaud never purported to be more than who she was, a twenty year old Ute with a preference for black sweaters, bunched hair, and an upward gaze…”
Pages for Pooty-Pooty
(pub. March 2011, Arcadia, Volume 2)
(reprint pub. October 2011, Zine-Scene)
“It would be an injustice to go on like this, with no mention of Paul Jean-Paul and his refusal to leave the library with no fewer than four books in his hands and one book under his arm and two others yet still in his bag…”
Making Sex
(pub. March 2011, Cavalier Literary Couture)
“This here is a matter of sudden copulation, a remark concerning the origin of private stimulation, and of it, we’d be hard pressed to assume it happened any other way…”
Interview with a Starving Man
(pub. November 2010, Steel Toe Review)
“Driving into town, rising bubbles of green and yellow mark the main boulevard formerly known as McFarland. Wanderers, survivors, remnants of the city’s elite line the road that used to be riddled with alcohol and tobacco shops, firearms blowout sales, and gas stations…”
The Brothers Landing
(pub. March 2009, Tertulia Magazine)
“Long ago, in an age when boats and barges made of wood reigned over the oceans, five brothers founded the city of Landing. They arrived to a pond in a valley between mountains and forests and planted a stake in the ground…”
A Candle’s Tale
(pub. May 2008, New Works Review)
“The spring sun drowned the world in more light than the city of Landing had ever been used to. Gleaming windows and bright mirrors, light bouncing off coins strewn across the ground until each nickel and dime emanated the appearance of a gold nugget…”
The Burning of Father Amelio’s Church
(pub. September 2006, Tertulia Magazine)
“The matter which everyone agreed to tell Father Amelio about was that of the festering mice in the attic that had bred there uninterrupted for over eight months. During that time, the congregation had intermittently noticed the raw stench of food in the mornings, the lingering smell of feces in the afternoons and the gnawing sounds of scratching mice in the evenings…”
The Writing on the Walls
(pub. October 2005, Tertulia Magazine)
“From one evening to the next, the writing on all the buildings had turned to gold. There was no one in town with a sharp enough wit to explain why. All that anyone knew was that it appeared with the conspicuousness of a ghost, and that it turned to gold in just the same way…”
