My Writing
Books:
Bones Buried in the Dirt: This novel in short story form was published by River Otter Press on January 1, 2013 (available at Amazon.com, Tattered Cover, and The Bookworm in Omaha). The individual pieces together tell an overall story in the voice of a young boy named Peter. Ranging from Peter at age four to Peter at age twelve, the stories focus on the sort of moments in childhood that get buried in the mind but never fully get absorbed, the moments that constantly come to mind later in life and shape what sort of individual people become. Read more...
Short Stories:
"Home Improvement," to be published in issue #4 of C4: The Chamber Four Lit Mag.
"Monkey! Monkey! Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!" to be published in Vol. 8, no. 2 of Wilderness House Literary Review.
"Happy Trails" published June 10, 2013 in Martian Lit.
"They're All Out To Get Me" published in the April issue of The Fat City Review.
"Changes for the Château" published in Issue 4 (May 2013) of Swamp Biscuits and Tea.
"The Des Moines Kabuki Dinner Theatre" published June 4, 2013 in Bartleby Snopes.
"Cents of Wonder Rhymes With Orange" published March 2013 in issue no. 7 of Thrice Fiction (pdf copy of issue available here).
"The Bricklayer's Ambiguous Morality" published in the Spring 2013 issue of The Lincoln Underground.
"The Unknowable Agenda of Ursines" published October 16, 2012 in issue 43 of "Crack the
Spine," page 6.
"Donkeys Live a Long Time. None of You Has Ever Seen Ethel Merman." (second story on the page) published in issue 11 of Hobo Pancakes.
"Ideas: Where to Get Them and What to Do When They Won't Leave" published July 9, 2012, in Paragraph Line.
"G-Men" published in the Summer 2012 issue of JMWW.
"The War" published in the Winter 2012 issue of The Writing Disorder. Also published in The Writing Disorder presents The Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2012.
"Burden of a Little Brother" published in the Summer Issue of The Lincoln Underground.
"Counter Spring" published in Volume 6 of Interrobang?! Magazine.
"Context Driven" published in the Spring 2012 issue of The Zodiac Review.
"Domestic Ties" published in August 30, 2011 in Atticus Review. Also published in the anthology Get Lit, Round 1: Short Fiction.
"Polite Notes of the Dinnertime Neighborly Etiquette Apocalypse" published August 15, 2011 in Brave Blue Mice. Also read as part of InDigest Magazine's The Last Reading on Earth, Ever: A Marathon Reading of Apocalyptic Writing (direct link to mine).
"But Nothing Was Better" published in the July 2011 issue of Cannoli Pie.
"Boys Chase Girls" published in issue #3 of Split Quarterly.
"Stranger" published in issue #2 of C4: The Chamber Four Lit Mag.
"Training" published in the Volume 228, January 2012 issue of Children, Churches and Daddies. Subsequently included in the collection book Cultural Touchstone and the anthology After the apocalypse (prose edition).
"The Virgin Mary Tree" published (live 5/20/2011) in the spring 2011 online edition of Grey Sparrow, also published in the Fall 2011, issue 8, print edition.
"Randolph, Vivian, and Charles" published in the Winter 2007 issue of Fine Lines.
"The Pipe" published in the Summer 2007 issue of Fine Lines.
Poetry:
"A Bourbon Poetry Submission," to be appearing in the Winged City Press and Two of Cups Press anthology BOURBON FOR BLOOD (due out in July 2013).
Reviews:
My review of Rontel by Sam Pink, published June 3, 2013, on Sundog Lit.
My review of Escaping Heaven by Cliff Hicks, published June 1, 2013, on The Lit Pub.
My review of Jen Michalski's Could You Be With Her Now, published May 15, 2013, on The Lit Pub.
My review of Timothy Stobierski's Chronicles of a Bee Whisperer, published April 26, 2013, on The Lit Pub.
My review of Ben Tanzer's You Can Make Him Like You, published March 26, 2013, on InDigest's blog.
My review of Michael Stutz's Circuits of the Wind, published March 18, 2013, on InDigest's blog.
My review of Tim Horvath’s Understories, published March 13, 2013, on InDigest's blog.
My review of jimmy lagowski saves the world by Pat Pujolas, published February 28, 2013, on Pank's blog.
My review of John L. Sheppard's Alpha Mike Foxtrot, published February 22, 2013, on InDigest's blog.
My review of Michael J Seidlinger's My Pet Serial Killer, published February 18, 2013, on The Lit Pub.
My review of Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, published February 3, 2013, on InDigest's blog.
My review of Milan Kundera's The Farewell Party (or, The Farewell Waltz), published January 7, 2013, on The Lit Pub.
My review of Shani Boianjiu's The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, published January 3, 2013, on InDigest's blog.
Articles:
My guest post about my ideas for stories, published June 2, 2013 on The Story Prize's blog.
"Short Stories Present a Divine Singularity," published on the blog for Atticus Books as part of National Short Story Month.
"Hiding the Hacker Instinct: Or, No Oppressor Strategy Can Be More Successful Than Training the Oppressed to Oppress Himself/Herself," published (under the pen name Phineas Phreak) in the Summer 2011 issue of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.
"Ethical and Legal Pitfalls Hidden in Inventorship" published in the September 2007 issue of The Nebraska Lawyer.
"a security hole at s-cwis" published (under the name Phineas Phreak) in the Winter 1998-1999 (Volume 15, Number 4) issue of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly.
Other:
