Forthcoming Short Fiction
“An acquaintance of mine got a baby and decided he needed to get rid of his dog…”
— forthcoming in The Harvard Advocate
“I usually nap during my haircut, but today I can’t sleep. I’m not sleepy today…”
— forthcoming in OxMag
“Grandpa died face-down in a pot of chili. It’s a family legend…”
— forthcoming in subTerrain
Published Short Fiction
“Everyone hated Tampa Tom. His friends hated him and his enemies hated him…”
— Published in The Greensboro Review
“Aliens invaded Earth, and they were so fucking rich…”
— published in The Florida Review 46.2
Unpublished Novel
“The anteaters were eating her face. It was the worst day of her life. Or maybe it was the second worst, if we get technical about it. Even while the anteaters ate her face, she did get technical about it, because with so many anteaters on top of her, she had some time to think. I’ll explain that part later…”
Uncollected Comics
The Invisible Life of Poet (2003–2009)
Published in Adbusters, the Dayton CityPaper, Duluth Reader Weekly, and Anchorage Press, among others
Art & Wit (2009–2018)
Self-published on DwiceFox.com
Unpublished Short Fiction
“The mother went from life to fetid squalor on the day the son turned ten…”
“When your breakfast arrives, you try to guess if you’ve ever been served on these same plates before, in these same coffee mugs before…”
“Someone got eaten. It may have been Paulina, or it could have been Fitzjames, or perhaps it was Stanley…”
The Silent Behavior of Objects
“On Saturday after work I buy a gun with no bullets. I don’t know anything about guns…”
“My wife found out she was pregnant using a home pregnancy test and we were excited…”
“Almost every memory I have of Grandma Jo, going back to when I was a little boy, is of her choking…”
We Are All Made of Water
“So my parents settled in tiny, flat Gulfwind, Florida, a sleepy town a hundred years past its booming industrial peak…”
“Billy Beergut threw another beer at the television. He drank some more beer, then threw that beer at the television, too…”
Taylor Dayne Told Me the Night Is Exploding
“’80s pop star Taylor Dayne sings that she ‘feels the night explode when we’re together’ but that’s not how I feel about my wife…”
“My father died and I was surprised to learn he had been saving money all his life working construction and left the whole wad to me…”
Chow Down Saturdays at the Pig Slop
“It is Florida 1985 and no one will fuck me. And no one has fucked me in five years…”
The Most Beautiful Woman in California
“This is a true story. I hooked up with the hottest woman in Hollywood and it was the worst sex I ever had…”
“Just after the middle of the 20th century, the exploration of outer space began moving from novels, stories, films, and comics”
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