Support the Magazines That Have Given Me Temporary Shelter
 Amoskeag (2011), “[sic]“: About a caregiver who discovers a typographical error on his birth certificate that allows him to develop a second self, capable of many things which he is not. Riddled with punning and wordplay and, I’d like to think, it works better with multiple readings. |
 The Wisconsin Review Vol. 45 (2011), “Gehenna”: Between early 2006 and May of 2008, I didn’t complete a single piece. I spent half of that time, however, drafting an exceedingly bleak piece entitled “Plastics” that was eventually obliterated and reduced to Post-It notes. In 2009, those became this—a story of which I’m quite fond. |
 The Willard & Maple (2011), “Horse Latitudes”: Magazine’s website is presently down for retooling; issue will be out mid-2011. “Horse Latitudes”—about a Louisiana man so terrified by Hurricane Katrina that he decides to drag and relocate his trailer home to the top of a mountain—has a rather complicated genesis. If interested, click away. |
 Natural Bridge No.23 (2010), “Hibakusha”: Written in December of 2004, this story earned me the nerve-wracking honor of being the only student ever to read at the yearly professors-only event. “Hibakusha” is a sad story, sure, but I still think the meta-texts its protagonist writes are hilarious. |
 Spindrift (2010), ”Husk”: I’ve never seen it in the local Barnes & Noble, but Spindrift is the CVs of a number of favorite authors, and it was rated highly in the 2009 issue of Writers’ Market. After three complete implosions/revisions, I couldn’t’ve been more thrilled that “Husk” (which had its infancy as a very different story in ’04) finally found a home. |
 Palo Alto Review Vol. XVI, No. 1 (2007), “Holophrastic”: I wrote this story in about four hours. I never work that quickly. The older I get, the slower I work, but even in ’04, when “Holophrastic” was drafted, it usually took me three or four weeks to crank something out. This seems to be the way with musicians’ chart-topping singles—the ones they end up resenting. Emails to editor Ellen Shull still work to wrangle a copy of the issue. |
 The Licking River Review Vol. 35 (2004), “Pier 32″: It’s not quite right to say that I’m embarrassed by this particular story, but let’s just say that, until recently, even I didn’t have a copy of it anymore. |
 Redivider Vol. 1, No. 1 (2003), “Marooned” : The first short story I completed to my satisfaction, and the first to be accepted for print (on its first round of submission). Boy, did that give me a false sense of hope about the relative ease of navigability of the world of publishing. |
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