"The Dirtbag at the Gym," a short from The Roadkill Collection about a Facebook pile on, was just nominated for inclusion in Queens Ferry Press's 2015 short fiction anthology.

The Roadkill Collection: forty–nine shorts that leave burning rubber all over the road. Available here.

Available now, The Roadkill Collection, from Big Table Publishing. Forty–nine flash stories that leave burning rubber all over the road. Buy it here.

"Fig Tree Gazing"

“Fig Tree Gazing” in Santa Fe Writers Project Journal, February, 2014. A longtime couple gropes for the key. Scheduled sex, shirtless flexing, Brokeback Mountain, spirit feral cat, nude housecleaning, Emerson quoting an Arab proverb: “A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.”

The Douchebag At The Gym

New flash published today, about ridiculing a stranger online. A jolt between your jolts of espresso. In Postcard Shorts. 

Chief Wahoo Speaks

Chief Wahoo Speaks

Ooo! Ah! Ah!

(the tom­–tom beat)

Kill’m!

Slash’m!

Burn’m!

Rape!

Ooo! Ah! Ah!

(The blood–red beat)

Rape white women!

(boom boom boom)

Kill white children!

(boom boom boom)

Slash’m!

Kill’m!

Burn’m!

 Rape!

Wahoo! Wa!

(our ancient cry)

Wahoo kill!

(our savage cry)

Hi yi ya

(our ancient dance)

Hi ya ya

(our base hit dance!)

Kill `em!

Scalp `em!

Suck `em dry!

Drink red blood

of dead white man!

Hi ya! Hi!

Big game today!

Hi ya! Hi!

Turn double play!

Drink’m blood of dead white man!

Paint skin red with dead white man!

And now, savage Tribe of blood–red skin, hear Chief say—

Kill`m!

Slash’m!

Burn’m!

Rape!

And when done—

go beat`m A’s!