Short Stories

Use the following links to view a sampling of the short stories I have published over the years.

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Sketch

The torched pages from Gar’s sketchpad tossed shadows this way and that against the filthy concrete…

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Making It Up

We all do these things, these perfect, futile things, we’re trying to make a cut in a petrified landscape…

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Never Take A Hostage You're Not Willing To Shoot

Scott and Dan shared no values concerning what mattered most: poetry, monogamy, straight guys…

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Father and Son and Holy Ghost

I’ll come right to the point, since we have so little precious time left: I hate you with a passion. I want…

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When Customs Were Different

In hope the air up high might prove more pure, some climbed eighty-seven stories. They shattered the…

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Not This Time

Not this time. Swear to God. This time, every glorious, evil, caustic, cantankerous curse I’d ever longed to utter would spill from my lips in a venomous and malignant and withering froth. Every repressed urge. Every petty resentment.

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Cold or Holy Water

By design, I date a drunk. He passes out by eleven. I wriggle from his dead-weight arm and dress in loose-fitting jeans slung low on my hips and a tourniquet-tight T-shirt that shows a strip of flesh above the belt.