Mercy
For the Scheherazade Project, on the theme of you, the killer. The theme calls for “(hopefully) fictional stories about you killing somebody else. It could be accidental. It could be deliberate. It...
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Goldilocks & the Three Bears: A Retelling
Time for something light. This story originates with my friend David on Flickr, the photo-sharing website, who started a group called Lost Objects. The idea there was to take a photo of a lost object,...
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Eating (& breathing & crapping) in outer space
In between doing my job, helping in what ways I could with the True Diversity Dinner, reading Max Blumenthal’s book Republican Gomorrah around his visit to Anchorage last weekend, & the other...
View ArticleNow I REALLY feel like a writer again
Last night I wrote about how I was unable to finish the short story called “Long Dark” I had originally intended for submission to the LGBTQ issue of Crossed Genres, but that I was able to take the...
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How to Find Your True Love: A Method
This isn’t the tattoo in the story whose name matches this post’s title — but it is one of my tattoos, one that I got in December (or maybe November) 1983, not long after I thought the story up. As I...
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Me, the killer
Here, I was killing a lousy stinky usurious credit card from hell. The story "Mercy" was less comedic. A couple of years ago, I occasionally took part in writing for a project an online acquaintance of...
View ArticleShark (a story for Haiti)
This story is posted online for free as part of Crossed Genres’ Post a Story for Haiti. If you enjoy this story, please consider donating to one of the organizations working in the Haiti relief effort...
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