My first published story about meeting Mickey Spillane.
A “Modern Love” story about meeting my wife and becoming a New York City high school teacher.
Non-Fiction:
“The Smart Kid,” Rejection Letters
“Class of ‘77,” Hawkeye
“It’s Only Temporary,” A Thin Slice of Anxiety
“Yearbook,” Bottle Rocket
“First Glove,” River Teeth, “Beautiful Things”
“Junk,” trampset
“Trophy,” Pithead Chapel
“War Games,” Cleaver
“1977,” Hippocampus
“They Teach You Everything,” The Palisades Review
Fiction:
“The Good Guy,” The Bulb Region
“Blue Spruce,” Literary Garage
“The Usher,” BULL
“It’s Not About Lions,” New World Writing Quarterly
“Background Noise,” New Flash Fiction Review
“Vocabulary,” Maudlin House
“Blue Shirt,” Does It Have Pockets? (Best Microfiction 2025 nomination)
“Now Playing,” Flash Fiction Magazine
“Casting Call,” Monkeybicycle
“The Commuter,” Prime Number Magazine (Issue 11.7)
“Vacation,” SmokeLong Quarterly
“The Fireman,” decomP (Best of Ten Years)
“The Fireman” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a storySouth Millions Writers Award and featured in decomP’s “Best of Ten Years.”