Check out Learn to Write from the Movies: Magic Beyond Words: The JK Rowling Story. Here’s a sample: Lesson 3: Don’t Bother To Write Until A Creepy Ghost Appears To You In A Dream. Good news. You don’t have to…
It’s the next installment of my Barrelhouse column, Learn To Write From the Movies. This time it’s about the movie Genius. Genius is a 2016 movie about Thomas Wolfe, who wrote Look Homeward, Angel, and his editor, Maxwell Perkins. The…
I have a column! It’s called Learn To Write From The Movies and it’s for Barrelhouse. More information: Welcome to a column where we learn how to become the sexy intellectual rock stars that Hollywood says all writers should be.…
I’m so pleased to be part of Salomé’s July issue. My very short story is called Deluge. Here’s the first two lines: The woman’s personality wouldn’t stay inside her. She vomited it into the corner of the literary gathering, a…
My short story Murmur is up on Every Day Fiction. It’s about a ghost. Excerpt: She came in with the rain, through an open window. It was the house of a young family. The ghost, whose name had been Amaya,…
I’m so proud to have a short story on Tin House’s Open Bar. It’s called Drought. You can read it here. And guess what? It was also reprinted in The Guardian.
I have a short humor piece in Defenestration titled How To Tell If You’re A Lady In A 1950s Melodrama. I watched a lot of bad movies to write it, so I know it’s accurate. Sample: Sure, his relentless stalking…
I have a short humor piece in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. It’s called Edit Your Novel With Math. A sample: With scissors, cut out all unique words used in the novel. Put these words in a bowl of water for three…
Hey, check it out! I have a short story up in LitnImage. It’s called Flatten, Poke, and Blow. Excerpt: Judith’s parents’ barn is full of wooden spools. There are dozens of them wound with rope as thick as tree branches.…
The short story I read last week is now up on Bang Out’s site, so now you can read it too. It is called “Five People Describe Burning Up,” in keeping with the heat theme. Excerpt: 1. Debbie: I’m coming…
Superstition Review, the online literary magazine at Arizona State University, has published my short story “Rabble of Butterflies,” which you can read here. Check it out! And while you’re at it, also check out the rest of the awesome fiction…
My short story “End of the Line” is in the 2010 issue of So to Speak. Published by George Mason University, So to Speak is a feminist journal of language of art. “End of the Line” is about an old…