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Real People Slash
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“What was that?” said Nathan, swinging into view in the kitchen doorway. “Where did the anarchists go?” His eyes were wide and extra white against flushed bronze skin and recently he had adopted a silly pointed goatee: half Che, half billy goat.

“Oh, they’re just very middle-class and eager to recycle stuff,” I told him. Nathan almost finished nodding before he got the joke.

A novella that explores what moving to New Jersey will do to a fellow. First published in Son and Foe issue #1.

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On the Settling of Ancient Scores
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God shook his head sadly. “You see what I deal with?”

A short, punchy story with a punchline. First published in Son and Foe issue #1.

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In Which an Angel Offers Instruction on the Meaning of Life
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So, one minute you’ve got your thumb up your ass and you’re hitchhiking to hell, and the next you walk through an angel-shaped hole in your living room. The full moon rises, you’re transformed into a seven-headed hound, and you appear in the basement men’s room of a major downtown department store—a damp, white, clammy, porcelain-and-tile place where you imagine busy busy frantic red handprints to be the one missing decorating touch.

Hairy human males, half-dressed in Santa suits, were hunched over, grumbling, muttering, spitting, and marking their tiny territories. Spencer’s new canine sensibilities were highly offended by their shameless displays, and a deep rumble rose from his chest. But from which head to voice the growl?

A short story about the magic of Christmas. First published in Son and Foe issue #1.

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For the Fairest
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For the fairest, the inscription read. It spread discord aplenty, as intended. The goddesses squabbled and shrieked, and if beauty were judged to be internal as well as external, none of them were terribly pretty in that moment. The gods knew better than to get directly involved. They passed that responsibility to a mortal, and washed their hands of the whole affair.

A flash fiction retelling of an old Greek myth. First published in Son and Foe issue #1.

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First Draft Theater Presents: Pulp Fiction
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“I been tellin’ that story for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your ass. I never really questioned what it meant; I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker ‘fore you put his ass to beddie-bye for all eternity. But I saw some shit this mornin’ that made me think twice.”

A flash fiction piece about the film Pulp Fiction. First in the Flash Fiction Theater series of shorts. First published in Son and Foe issue #1.

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East of the Sun, West of the Moon
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“Foolish girl,” her husband cried, “one more day and the curse would have been lifted! Now we are both come to grief, for I must go to the land that lies east of the sun and west of the moon, and you may not come with me.”

“Tell me the way, then,” she said, “so I can look for you; surely I may do that.”

–traditional Norwegian folktale

A short story about the distances some people will go for love. First published in Son and Foe issue #1.

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Critterworld
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Critterworld is the saddest place in Florida, maybe even in America. I only went inside once, and that was on a field trip in elementary school. Stash out front was so familiar to us that we hardly noticed him—all except Jun, who made a point of saying how much Stash disgusted him—and the psycho-monkey in the cage was already mean way back then from picking up lit cigarettes. When people came near he attacked the bars and tried to throw things, but for some reason he couldn’t stop himself from picking up cigarette butts and burning his hands. All us kids crowded around the cage and teased him with monkey noises that day of the field trip, which frustrated him and made him crash wildly around, hurling himself at the bars as if he wanted to kill us, or kill himself trying.

A short story kind of about how an elephant died, but mostly about other things, like how it lived. First published in The Mississippi Review, featured in Son and Foe issue #1. Winner of the 1992 Pushcart Prize.

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Bonneville
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Lionel always tells them the same old thing. “Breaking the sound barrier is a metaphor, not a simile. If people said ‘it’s like breaking a barrier’ or ‘it’s as if the jet broke some kind of barrier’ we wouldn’t be out here. But they don’t. The passing through to Mach 1 is breaking the barrier. Metaphors are truth.”

I don’t much know what he’s talking about, but it shuts up the press.

A short story about breaking the sound barrier, then picking up the pieces afterward. First published in Son and Foe issue #1.

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Asymptotic Death Watch
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My grandfather, a vet, gave me a watch.

A poem. First published in Son and Foe issue #1.

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An Eye for an Eye
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I sent my eye to fat camp. “Remember,” I told him, “I’m only doing this because I love you.”

A flash fiction story that sheds new light on how a little compromise can go a long way towards saving troubled relationships. First published in Son and Foe issue #1.

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