Short Stories and Essays
Stories & Essays
2008
“Logorrhea.” Best American Fantasy 2007. Ed. Jeff VanderMeer and Ann VanderMeer
“Settlers in a New World.” Oxford American, August 2008.
“On Accidentally Finding Your Way.” Glimmer Train newsletter, Writers Ask, May 2008. Read an excerpt here.
“A Life in Pods.”The Kenyon Review. Spring 2008.
“Milk.” Sex for America. Ed. Stephen Elliott. Harper Collins. Spring 2008.
“Lucky Pierre.” Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex. Ed. Ellen Sussman. Norton, 2008.
2007
“Hum.” The Missouri Review. Summer 2007.
A Review of Stray, by Sheri Joseph. The Believer. Feb. 2007.
“To the Bad Girls Go the Spoils.” Playboy, May 2007.
“An Open Letter to Mark Burnett’s Production Assistant.” Bad Girls. Ed. Ellen Sussman. Norton 2007.
“Putting Out” When I Was a Loser: True Stories of Barely Surviving High School. Ed. John McNally. Free Press. May 2007.
“Logorrhea.” Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories. Ed. John Klima. Spectra. May 2007.
“The Stories We Tell.” San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. April 2007.
2006
“An Exciting New Career in Medicine.” Playboy, Feb. 2006
“The Boulevard of Heroes.” Glimmer Train. Issue 60, Fall 2006.
“The Great Amphibian.” Winner of the Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction. Mississippi Review, Summer 2006. Special mention in the 2007 Pushcart Prize anthology.
“A Graceful Exit.” Blow. Issue One. Fall 2006.
“The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress.” The National Literary Review. Summer 2006.
“The Strange Case of Brad Vice: In Defense of a Destroyed Treasure.” (essay) The Oxford American. Winter 2006.
“Lost in Beijing.” (essay) Lonely Planet anthology Tales From Nowhere. Ed. Don George. 2006.
“Tagged.” (essay) San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, March 2006.
“Getting Ready.” (essay) The May Queen: Women on Life, Love, Work, & Pulling it All Together in Your 30s. Ed. Nicki Richesin. March 2006.
“In Flight.” Vestal Review.
“The Man Who Could Not Forget.” Cream City Review. 30th Anniversary issue.
2005
“Hospitality.†Mid-American Review, Fall 2005.
“P.S. You’re Mine.” Kudzu Christmas: Twelve Mysterious Tales. Ed. Jim Gilbert, River City Publishing 2005.
“P.S. You’re Mine.†Mississippi Review.com 2005.
“In Search of a Beautiful Lie.†(essay) The Writers’ Chronicle, Oct. 2005.
“Blackout in Ushuaia.†(essay)By the Seat of My Pants. Ed. Don George. Lonely Planet 2005.
“From Somewhere Down South to South Beach.†(essay)Bookmark Now. Ed. Kevin Smokler. Basic Books 2005.
2004
“The Hero of Queens Boulevard.” Glimmer Train. 51. Summer 2004.
“Obedience.†Identity Theory. May 2004.
“Oh, Baby!” Salon.com. July 21, 2004.
2003
“Choose Your Travel Partner Wisely.†Stories from the Blue Moon Café 2. Ed. Sonny Brewer. MacAdam/Cage, 2003.
“Ooooh, Tannenbaum!†Salon.com. December 11, 2003.
2002
“The Valley of Beautiful Women.” (essay) Adventures in Wine: True Stories of Vintages Around the World. Ed.Thom Elkjer. Travelers’ Tales, 2002.
“Propaganda.” The Writer’s Chronicle. 35th Anniversary Edition. 2002.
“Down the Shore Everything’s All Right.” Glimmer Train. 41. Winter 2002.
I Wanna Hold Your Hand.” Salon.com. June 26, 2002.
“Following the Ice Line North.” (essay) 7×7 Magazine. Winter 2002.
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“The Girl in the Fall Away Dress.” Other Voices. 33. 2000.
“The Colonists.” Exquisite Corpse. 10. Winter 2001.
“Satellite.†CutBank. 52. 1999.
“Fifth Grade: A Criminal History.†Virgin Fiction. Ed. Eugene Stein. William Morrow and Co., 1999.
“Curvature.†Brevity. Spring 1999.
“Mosque.†Belles’ Letters. Ed. Joe Taylor. Livingston University Press, 1999.
“Propaganda.†The Florida Review 23.2. 1999.
“This Is Not a Love Story.†Fish Stories: Collective Two. 1996.
“The Last Bad Thing.†Gulf Coast 8.2. 1996.
“The Sound of Them.†Alabama Bound. Ed. James E. Colquitt. Livingston University Press, 1995.
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