Stories Available Online

  • “Anyone Else But Me” is a quintessentially Austin story. Introverted techie Robert Duncan bumps up against his New Age neighbors. Zach flirts with Robert while Robert fumbles his attraction for Heather. How do sex and intimacy, sex and friendship, sex and loneliness intersect? Read this one at Valparaiso Fiction Review ⇒.
  • A farmer. His wife and daughter. An infected spider bite. The year is 1932. Read “Awake in Herself” in Gertrude, Issue 30 ⇒.
  • “Center Wheel Balance Wheel, Escape, Wheel,” set in Nopalito, Texas, 1937, wrestles with the mystery of a watch that goes missing and the moody, mercurial father who owned it. Find the story online at Prime Number or in Prime Number, Editors’ Selections: Volume 1, (Press 53, 2012). A short interview follows the online story.
  • “In the Garden” drops in on Connie and Blake ten years into a stale marriage. It is September 1982. A carpenter arrives for roof repairs at a house above Shoal Creek in Austin, and things are said that can’t be taken back. Read it  at Superstition Review ⇒.
  • “A Man in the House” features Grace Hoffman, twenty years a widow, as she turns sixty. It is April 1956 in Nopalito, Texas. An old suitor, a party with friends, and a surprise elopement threaten the routine Grace has come to take for granted. Read it at Printer’s Devil Review ⇒.
  • What happens when a determined woman’s husband loses his sense of purpose? Read “The Red X,” Parentheses, Issue 6 ⇒
  • “The Road Home,” set in the late-Fifties, follows an unnamed young man through the harrowing events of an hour. Our protagonist wrestles with same-sex attraction, with a conflict between shame and defiance, with a violent highway encounter spiraling out of control. Read it in Devil’s Lake (Fall 2014) ⇒.
  • “Yellow Jackets” takes place in a moldering house in recent-day San Antonio, where an elderly man confronts reminders of the one act in his past for which he cannot forgive himself. Talking Writing published this story in 2011, but it has not been available since the magazine redesigned itself. Read it here ⇒

Flash

These are short—very short—narratives that inhabit a borderland between the prose poem and flash fiction, between flash fiction and glimpsed memory.