More fiction. This time on Untoward. Untoward is rad. I’m happy to be a part of it.
What’s Natural
Un-nesting
This is a story I wrote for my superfriend that abandoned me when she moved to L.A. Thanks decomP!
Orange Alert!
Here’s me in the Orange Alert reading series again, this time for Ben Tanzer’s new book “You Can Make Him Like You,” which is going to be amazing when you buy it and it winds up in your hands and you read it. Anyway, here I am reading The Bambi.
Baby Broadsides
Do you want to read a story about moles and how to kill them? If you do, you can purchase a baby broadside designed and printed by Peptic Robot Press and read a story–just like that. I will sell you a copy of this story. If you want one. Let me know. Email me.
Me: all up in this podcast
Here’s me reading a story I wrote with Elissa Bassist as part of Mary Hamilton’s book release and the Orange Alert reading series at the Whistler. p.s. buy her book. It’s cuhRAZY.
Four Relationships
It’s fun to write with your friends. Check out this joint I wrote with Elissa Bassist, whose last name should really be Badassist.
“You are worried that you might have to take some money out of your savings account. A savings account. That’s so hot.”
Three Guys One Book reviews Crop Milk
“I adored this little gem, it’s a perfect object, a whopper of a story, alive and breathing with details, names, places, smells, and moments, some good, some not so good.”
Read the whole review, here.
Crop Milk Mini-book
ach year, according to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, an estimated 76 million
people are affected by foodborne illnesses, resulting in
325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths in the United
States alone. These illnesses and deaths result in an
annual cost of $22 billion due to medical expenses and
loss of productivity.
The story of pigeon, hashbrowns, and facts.
Download the Mini-book here.
Between Here and There
“”Even Jodi has gotten fingered,” Mark whispered as we moved through the empty kitchen on our way past the sanctuary toward the pool where Sister Donna took us to swim every Friday after school. I slid my hands along the cold stainless steel countertop where Sister Donna made her breads: braided long and skinny, or stacked sweet buttery fortresses of snowballs.”
read the whole story at The Chicago Reader…
Word Problems for the new economic landscape
Rhonda cleans houses eight hours each day Monday through Friday without a lunch break. Randi, who also cleans houses, has recently seen a decrease in her work opportunities. She believes Rhonda, who really has a mouth on her, is responsible for this decrease. If Rhonda worked 40 hours each week for two weeks, how many eight-hour days could Randi have worked if she clocked 27 hours in two weeks? Rhonda and Randi were friends until recently. Assume a workweek is Monday through Friday.