Total Oblivion

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Skinny Dipping

Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Crawford Award. Title short story listed for the 2000 O. Henry award.

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Beyond This Life

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Wed, February 9 2011 » Poetry » No Comments

There Is a Lamp

Yes, another one. Revising this to the drum generator in 4/4 time was actually very helpful. Always good to have a new hobby.

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Mon, February 7 2011 » Poetry » No Comments

A Night Inside the Lost Mountain

Goofing around with YouTube, random beat generators, open source sample databases, and poem fragments in iambic tetrameter will lead to this: Definitely the “first pancake is always the lumpiest” syndrome going on here, but there you go.

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Mon, February 7 2011 » ?!?!?, Poetry » No Comments

Blood, Trapped Under the Nail

About 6 weeks or so ago I slammed the porch door into my thumb while I was letting the dogs back in. Though the pain subsided after a few minutes, I’ve had since then a little demarcation of blood underneath my fingernail, pressed flat like a rose in the pages of a heavy book. Time [...]

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Sun, February 6 2011 » Life Studies, Polis » No Comments