My short stories have appeared in over thirty journals. They received three Pushcart nominations and most are included in my short story anthologies. Here is a small sampling:
Breaking Vials is a piece of creative nonfiction about doing drug busts on the streets of San Francisco. This incident, which I experienced when I was a probation officer, appears in Literally Stories.
Known by Its Fruit, a political parody about a lonely librarian who answers a matrimonial ad from a demonic farmer, appears in Bewildering Stories. The Bog Runs is a haunting incident I experienced when I was a ringer on a cattle station in the Australia's Northern Territory. It made its debut in Across the Margin.
Blow Up Bella, a tale about a loser who falls in love with an inflatable sex doll, appears in A Thin Slice of Anxiety.
Honey Bunny appears in The Literary Review, a print journal. It's about a woman suffering from erotomania who stalks a relative stranger with deadly results. This story was inspired by a true incident.
Another Will Take Your Place is a story about a rape victim who confronts her assailant in a prison program. It first appeared in Red Savina Review, an online journal that has since folded, and received a Pushcart nomination.
The Good Pimp is about a marvelous pimp in San Francisco who, in an effort to protect his girls, decides to run for city councilman. It appears in The Ficional Cafe.
Little Darling. a story appearing in Trampset. is about a playboy who bonds with the ghost of a woman who passed away over a hundred years ago.
The Vegas Differential, which appears in A Lonely Riot, is about two nerdy brothers who lose their tenious hold on reality by playing fantasy baseball eight hours a day, every day, all summer long.
Tower Duty appears in Sixfold. When her husband dies, a grieving widow takes a job as a guard in a medium-securiy prison. When two inmates try to escape under her watch, she must make a deadly decision.
The Senior Games Pickleball Champion of Macon County is a piece of creative nonfiction appearing in BULL.
I Am Not a Crook appears as an audio in The Chamber Magazine. In this narrative, a peace officer passes to the afterlife and discovers that his guide spirit is Richard Nixon.