really really going off the grid this time

exactly one year ago i began writing fiction again (after a five-year break)

well, i've been giving it a lot of thought the past few weeks and have decided to take a nice long break from short fiction

if anything, i'll keep working on the novel

i do plan to keep reading/editing for jmww

i won't be updating this blog much anymore, if at all

thanks to everyone who kindly commented/followed me on here.

see ya.

fuckin a even ice cube would say it was a good day

four stories published today - three at necessary fiction and one at fiction at work

tonight will be blasting the f out of this novel

i won't be denied tonight or any other night. i've come too far. any boxing fans? i'm quoting carl the truth williams before he fought tyson.

the good peoples at fictionaut and zoetrope helped all four of these stories.

new story about baltimore residents attacking their suburban colleagues

I have a new piece up in Sex and Murder.

I am writing this novel like a motherfucker.

Fuck you I won't do what you tell me.

Re that last comment, I am also listening to a group I used to like in high school. I have rage issues.

Two recent acceptances - Bicycle Review ("Why They Kill Presidents") and Dogzplot ("Thin Me")

my interview with the wonderful molly gaudry

my jmww interview for molly gaudry - touching on my cross-dressing penchant, molly's crazy schedule, and cincinnati - is here.

just got an acceptance from DOGZPLOT. pumped!

again with the novel

i am writing a slim novel.

it will be about a covert stutterer. it will thieve portions from some of my short "stutter" stories. it will include much/all of the FRiGG story.

it will be 150-200 very short sections, each about 300-400 words.

last time i vowed to write a novel i lectured my wife at a bob evans for 45 minutes about supporting me this time, how i was so fired up, how uh thanks for asking but i didn't need to outline i just needed to write the damn thing. by the end of the lecture most of our breakfasts were cold and i was drained.

this time i am going to write it.

up in FRiGG

Even when I was writing next to nothing from 03-08, I loved FRiGG. I am thrilled to have placed a story with Ellen Parker's wonderful journal. If I'd had bad parents, I suspect I'd have ended up like the narrator.

I hope you'll check it out here.

new piece in boston literary magazine/FRiGG piece/JMWW interview

I shouldn't be as excited as I am about my forthcoming FRiGG piece. Really, someone calm me. Just read the draft online and gave Ellen the thumbs up. Should be live a bit down the road.

Quite thrilled to have placed a piece with Boston Literary Magazine after a number of tries. It's here.

The wonderful Michelle Reale interviews me for the JMWW blog.

Also stumbled across names in the forthcoming Hint Fiction Anthology, such as Ha Jin and Joyce Carol Oates and Roxane Gay and Ryan Bradley and Jason Jordan and about 30 other folks I really like a lot. Robert Swartwood and Norton ftw. Fired up to be in there.