Mystery Weekly Magazine published my story “Mr. DeShaw’s Sculpture” in their February issue. I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever written, and you can look at a preview of it on their website here or buy the physical issue (or a Kindle issue) through Amazon. And that’s interesting—this is my first physical publication, and …
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A few weeks ago I sent On the Premises a short piece of fiction. The prompt for “Mini-Contest #43” was as follows: “Use between 30 and 75 words to give readers a bunch of information they don’t want, don’t need, and that interrupts the flow of the story in the worst way possible.” They titled …
For Thanksgiving Leah and I drove to Washington D.C., which afforded us the opportunity to visit West Virginia. West Virginia isn’t quite on the way… but it isn’t out of the way, either. Also, my parents, sister, and I are in a big competition to see who can visit all fifty states first, and I …
Jeff and I did things a little differently this year for Thanksgiving; we went to two different "Friendsgivings." They were both a lot of fun, and we brought ice to the first and pumpkin pie to the second. Jeff handled the ice. And I called my mom the morning of Thanksgiving for pie advice. She …
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