Current projects

I’ll try to update this as it changes. As of the 13th of November 2017, I’ve a bunch of novellas in various stages of completion. Impossible Money is about newlyweds who win the lottery; things go downhill from there. In Lava Springs a woman returns to her hometown to help her monstrous mother and encounters both memories of and actual old friends. Your Warmly Lit House is about a couple on the edge of homelessness, an almost commune, and a girl fleeing polygamy. I’ve also been genre mashing a little: What She Asks of Me and an as yet untitled manuscript are both weird westerns, I guess.

The Secret Physics, which has been published, is probably a post-modern romance portal novel.

I dance by writing

From Anne Lamott’s bird by bird: “I taped Hillel’s line to the wall by my desk: ‘I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.’ The way I dance is by writing.”

Books

Most of the media I consume is, you guessed it, books. I’m going to start adding a list of titles I’ve read and might include some one-sentence reviews.

With Wings and Trumpet

With Wings and Trumpet is the fourth of four microfictions I published in Western Humanities Review during the summer of 2016.

College Bookstore Shipping and Receiving: A Couplet

College Bookstore Shipping and Receiving: A Couplet is the third of four microfictions I published in Western Humanities Review during the summer of 2016.

Once I Went to a Wake

Once I Went to a Wake is the second of four microfictions I published in Western Humanities Review during the summer of 2016.

Cleave

Cleave is the first of four microfictions I published in Western Humanities Review during the summer of 2016.

The Secret Physics

In The Secret Physics, a dying woman’s final whisper undoes everything her son knows about their relationship, his wife, and reality itself.

Here is a longer summary:

In The Secret Physics, readers meet Jonathan Norton and Wendy Daily, a mild-mannered mortician and a beautiful linguist, married but not exactly in love. To save their grandson from an otherworldly poisoning, Jonathan races from world to world searching for Wendy and doubting his sanity. All of her family is at risk. Her parents disappeared decades before, perhaps exiled by a man who once saved her. Now Wendy journeys toward revenge and Jonathan must search for help through realities neither can understand. They must survive each other and the plot to destroy them to defend a loved one from a deadly, poisonous transformation.

Ordinarily Sacred

“Ordinarily Sacred” is microfiction. It can be found in The Citron Review.