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Book:  Let’s Do

Chapbook: Morbid Curiosities

Chapbook: Feather Rousing, a hybridiary

Flash Fiction

“Good Stretch,” Wigleaf.  Selected by guest editor Amber Sparks for Best Microfiction 2021, edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke.

“Dear Wigleaf,” author postcard. Wigleaf.

“Descending”, 7×7, a seven-turn “exquisite corpse” game with visual artist Maeve D’Arcy— and maybe the most fun thing I’ve ever been challenged to write.

“Mrs. Williamson Winds the Watch,” Indiana ReviewFinalist for the 2013 IR 1/2K Prize

“The Glass Piano:  The Königsbau, Munich, 1848,”  The Collagist / The Rupture

“Exercises for Printing and Writing: Haverford Indian School, 1910,”  Digital Americana, Finalist for the 501-Word Writing Contest, 2013

“Cases: Willard Asylum for the Insane: New York, 1910-1960”  Monkeybicycle.  In 2018, this piece was adapted by artist Chris Style into a 14-piece carved set of woodblocks, then inked and steamrollered into a Really Big Print (60″ x 32″)! See the images here.

“Dreamland: Coney Island, 1904,”  Fiction Southeast

“Resurrection, 2032,” Wigleaf

“The Boy Who Will Burn: L’Exposition Universelle, 1878,” Wigleaf

Beached,Necessary Fiction. Selected for the long list —the top 200—of Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2014, compiled by Wigleaf

“Two Weeks After Election Night, Mitt Romney Takes in Disneyland with his Grandkids,” Paper Darts

“Swath,” Hobart 

“Nape: Pensaukee, Wisconsin, 2003,” Corium

Family Portrait, 1860,”  Atticus Review

Countenance: 1958,”  Atticus Review

“Red Paint,” Winner of Photogene #4, Sundog Lit

Flash Nonfiction

Where Are You? Here I Am, HereRoanoke Review

“Hospice: Columbus, 1974,” Hobart

“Hope is the Hawaiian Shirt, Hope is the Ukulele,” published in Hope is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic, edited by B.J. Hollars, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2021.

“Feather Rousing,” Gigantic Sequins,  originally written for a Midsummer’s Music Chamber concert event in Door County, Wisconsin. Pushcart Prize nominee, 2020.

“The Lady, The Tiger,” Superstition Review. Watch the Vodcast on iTunes U here.

“Vigil,” Carve

 Short Stories 

“Worship for Shut-Ins,” West Branch

“Good Fences,” Michigan Quarterly Review

“Let’s Do,” Indiana Review

Trim & Notions,” Indiana Review. Winner of the 2002 IR Short Fiction Award.

“When Tom and Georgia Come Over to Swim,” Beloit Fiction Journal

“Simple as That,” The Journal

“Weights and Measures,” Chelsea. Winner of the 2002 Chelsea Short Fiction Award, Chelsea

Other work –> Nonfiction