"A month after Prince died, my son, George, changed his name to Rocket and started wearing the kind of tank tops you buy in the drugstore."My latest short story, "Sexy Motherfucker's Mom," appears in the May/June 2021 issue of Kenyon Review. I started working on this story … [Read more...]
They Came to Montana to Suffer
"It didn't take long to learn the most important thing about being a guide: don't bring tourists right to the fish. It turned out I had a knack for knowing where trout would bite. I could follow multiple currents at once and see which one the fish slipped into. I'd take clients … [Read more...]
La Rabida Heart Sanitarium, 1954
I am so grateful to Sonora Review for publishing my story, "La Rabida Heart Sanitarium, 1954." The piece is based on my mother's experience with rheumatic fever, which she contracted in the first grade. She spent most of the school year hospitalized. The hearts of children with … [Read more...]
Wheels and Bushings
Gulf Coast has published my flash fiction, "Wheels and Bushings," and I could not be more thankful. It is a story that has been brewing in my mind for years. Whenever I visited my grandparents' apartment as a child, I slept on the couch in their living room, right under a very … [Read more...]
New Fiction in Bird’s Thumb
My story, "Chorionic Villus Sampling with the Virgin Mary," is now up at Bird's Thumb. I'm thrilled to share it with you. … [Read more...]
