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Skywritingfarplanetsday’s Childe
A broken slingshot. No bird struck, no stone in flight. Only the snapped arm thwarting any perceived damage. Behind a screen the shadow of a dead woman washes dishes at a sink. A curious paw print...
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The Chirr of the Cicada
The great horned owl is running scales in the avocado tree. Dark, it is. Pitch. The mother’s birthday, tomorrow. She’ll doubtless not remember, stuck as she is in the nursing home. Year to year, I...
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I Named the Stars for You:: Blue Fifth Review
Originally published here at Blue Fifth Review::
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The Rereading Project
I have a short essay on rereading Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, over at my friend, Emilie Staat’s site. You can read it HERE.
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Inside
the wall, behind the plasterboard, a small Clark’s Mary Jane shoe box, size 12D. The box holds three objects; a brownish, desiccated piece of umbilical, a clear-glass Rosary beads, and a lock of dark,...
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W.W. Norton Advance News
My story, “Skull of a Sheep,” originally published by The New Orleans Review, is included in the W.W. Norton Anthology, Flash Fiction International. I’m listed under “Ireland,” I believe. Hard to...
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Time Past, Time Present.
Mismatched socks, the striped and the spotted, holed shoes, no chance of repair. Scissors and Sharpie, tools for the downtrodden. A red ribbon hangs from a nail, frayed ends and forgotten rewards from...
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Best of the Net Nominations
Pretty stoked that my story, The Third Time my Father Tried to Kill Me, is nominated for a Best of the Net Award, by Mojave River Press. Indebted to Michael Dwayne Smith and his press for the honor....
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The Bird in Flight
Delighted to arrive home from a fraught day at work to find in the mail, a copy of my twelve story cycle about my character, the Bird Mahony, from Pure Slush’s A Year in Stories, 2014. Matt Potter, the...
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Why I skipped Applying to Breadloaf this Year
Frozen chestnuts make for poor bedfellows Too many people in paisley make me nervous Three manuscripts strike a pose on the floor of my office “The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools” Giant...
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What I Did Instead of the Breadloaf Conference (I didn’t apply to)…
Picked 400 avocados Wrote a micro fiction piece Read Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond Met with fellow-teachers in academy on campus Ate 35 gummi candies Walked dog in the darkness Drank Third Window...
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