short fiction | short fiction
Apr.16.2013
The snow was nearly a foot deep before they stepped outside. When she opened the door a white ledge had formed against it smooth and geometric, indented with the shape of the carved door, uneven on top with ripples and crusty edges that caught the electric light.
“I’m sorry we didn’t do this...
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Apr.01.2013
It's always nice when the first of the month brings some good news! And this came after 12 so it's not a joke... but it seems that My Mother Was An Upright Piano has been shortlisted in the Best Story Collection section of Sabotage's Saboteur's Indie Lit awards. I had no idea it had even...
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Mar.14.2013
Many thanks to Red Room for mentioning my New York stories as an “Editors Pick”. Each of the stories is set in contemporary New York City, and I now have ten of them. I’ll be writing a few more until I get to a book-length manuscript, which will be published in ebook and print editions next year....
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Mar.01.2013
Hope you'll look at this new story of mine. Here's an excerpt:
She brought him into her studio, the second bedroom in her large apartment. The windows looked down on Fort Washington Avenue and, as she showed him around, traffic noise came in from outside, chaotic rumblings to accompany the rambling...
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Jan.12.2013
Sweet Tooth, by Ian McEwan
One thing I enjoy about what we call this particular version of postmodern literature is the tinkering with structure, and McEwan is a master of that talent. Too, he, like most gifted writers, is a student of human tics, psychology, the subtleties that make us unique,...
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Dec.26.2012
Link to Louise's blog
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Nov.23.2012
I've been working for a month on what's turned into a very long (some 7500 words) "short" story. That's been good; it's allowed my first-person narrator's mind to wander and thus to complicate the story. The challenge there was to allow a reader into his river of connected thoughts (bouncing back...
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Nov.12.2012
Hope you'll look at this just-published New York story of mine... "The Three-Cornered Hat".
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Nov.03.2012
From Matt Brockwell...
Years ago, when I was a college undergraduate who dabbled in theater, I read that the difference between a skilled and a novice actor, is nowhere more clear than when they are asked to portray the state of being drunk. The simple, and wrong approach, is to mimic the...
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Oct.14.2012
This is a taste from a book of mine soon to be out - a collection of connected short stories, with one story woven, chapter by chapter, among the others. This is the first chapter of that woven story.
CHAPTER I
Sunday morning had crept in on a throaty wind, softened only by a pure but...
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