May 1, 2018

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Annotated Bibliography

Stories Published on Medium

Short Stories

Rusted Beauty and Ragged Pride

Once upon a time, northeastern Pennsylvania sounded day and night with the steam hiss and clamor of ceaseless railroad…

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Dark Cipher

Doctor James Finny felt the Dark Cipher working within him as he loaded rounds into a snub-nosed revolver. He felt no…

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Lighthouse

I wake up and know, right away, that it’s going to be one of those nights when I toss and turn in the sheets for hours…

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A Bag of Snakes

Everybody’s calling me an attempted murderer because of what happened with Chet Knox and the bag of snakes. The irony…

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The Best Revenge

His smile gave him away. I couldn’t forget that smile if I tried.

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The People Outside Your House are NOT Monsters

Listen, you’re in really bad danger right now. I mean, like, pretty much the worst danger ever. And it’s not the kind…

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One Thousand Mind-Liquifiers

The call came just after midnight. A thousand mind-liquefiers found in shipping containers on Pier 62.

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The Snake Eater’s Gold

(An audio version of this was made by Manor House. They also had first publication rights.)

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The Monkey’s Blade

He lives among the cliffs and caves at the center of our tiny island. It’s just him and me here. Him, me, and thousands…

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Confessions of a Life-Scripter

You’ve probably never heard of me. That is by design. It’s part of my job to be unknown. After today, though…

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Georgia Rick and the Mud People

The first time I saw Georgia Rick was the day he walked onto the job site with a can of beer in his hand asking if we…

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She Never Did Make it to the Haight

Connie Lynn Line put seven Black-eyed Susans in her hair before walking out to that Nebraska highway to hitchhike to…

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A Game of Medium

The Medium post claimed it was a “writing contest.” I suspected right away that it was something else, but not even I…

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Bully Brain

I can’t find the wristwatch that I use as a timer while I meditate.

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The Only Way to Write

You woke up that morning, the same as every morning, at seven o’clock. You got off the floor and opened your laptop and…

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A Mime in Diablo Town

Gus “Three Kills” Gills was the first to see a mime ambling down the dirt road towards Diablo Town.

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The Best Way to Read Whitman

I hadn’t eaten in four, maybe five days. I’m not sure how long, exactly, but I know I was hungry enough to have that…

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That Gruesome San Antonio Smile

I don’t know how I got there, other than that is started with beer.

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Silences, Shadows, and Lights–Part 1

The voices in the woman’s head were so loud that Jakob couldn’t hear himself think. Three of them, maybe four, badgered…

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New Roses

One part of Cora prayed that Billy would hurry, while one part of her prayed that he wouldn’t come at all. Through it…

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Poetry

To You, Doomed to Die a Philosopher

To you, doomed to die a philosopher, Cursed to speak without expression In mute representation of birds,

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Not the Lying-Down Kind

The city’s bridges sag over rivers like hunchbacked men carrying heavy loads for too long.

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The Land Beyond the Mirror

In this land, nothing dies but to be born again.

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While the Wolves Sleep

Night arrives like a faceless need To rob light from young lovers Like you and me.

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A Sensual Geometry

You are a miracle of form, a revelation of angles,

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Eyes Wide and Down

People always talk about looking up at stars in wonder, but I prefer looking down, up-close, and inside.

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To Hell With Back-Country Invaders

the sky is a network of cotton veins

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Catharsis of Shadows

silence descends into Jupiter’s Autumn mouth

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Oregon Coast Hike

Let wind be my hair, alpine meadows my eyes, and cool rain my hands.

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Sad Sage Lady

Her eyes fell down like snowflakes

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Sunlight like Amber Surrounded Her

Ah, life. But I love you, anyway!

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After Thanksgiving

Yes, it’s true, my family has had its hand in the church’s food box a time or two–it’s true, love, it’s true.

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Drabbles

Two Dozen Too Many Mechanical Squirrels

Carlos loved mechanical squirrels so much that he built two dozen.

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They Don’t Call it a Pfralashemgrat for Nothing!

The moment I heard it was at the park, I raced my car to the scene.

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The Lester Virus

Editor Lester Nevins vowed he would get his revenge on IT if they ever took away his beloved, wildly obsolete computer.

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The Howling Terror of Cadillac-9

Three dozen boys shifted nervously at the starting line as the Howling Terror snorted and stamped behind its gate.

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The Telescope to End All Telescopes

After a lifetime of work, the physicist finally invented a telescope that could see the very edge of the universe. She…

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The Crystalline Spiders of Moon 12

Exploring a new moon, Captain Vasquez’s crew accidentally drilled into the side of a space vessel buried deep…

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