Microfiction
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The Organ Grinder
A new microfiction, from my manuscript in progress, Seaside Saints, is now up at The Argyle Review. Seaside Saints might become a novella in microfiction about various characters in a small seaside town in Catalunya. There are twenty or so stories so far. This one is about an organ grinder whose golden retriever retrieves the… Read more
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DEER MUSK
“The whole town smelled like chives and onion with a dash of mustard. Maciek sampled the popular dish. Chips, thin as a shoelace, mayo on the side. Clams in large pot with white wine brine. Strange, though, this hankering for deer musk.” My microfiction, “Deer Musk,” is now up at Literary Garage. It’s kind of… Read more
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“BIG FISH” NOMINATED FOR BEST SMALL FICTIONS 2025
Some nice news this morning. My micro fiction “Big Fish” has been nominated by Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction from New Zealand for Best Small Fictions 2025. Thank you to Michelle Elvy (editor of Flash Frontier). Read more
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‘Golden Trumpet’: A Microfiction
The memory of the 90s Salt Lake City underground—the legendary nights at Bricks and The Sun—was violently punctuated by a freak tornado that slammed downtown as the millennium turned. You can read the full story now, alongside a brilliant flash by Karen Crawford, as this week’s featured MicroMonday over at Fictive Dream: https://fictivedream.com/2025/11/24/micromonday-33/ Read more
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CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD
🌾 New Horror Microfiction: “Potatoes of Promise” 🐖👹 I have a new horror micro story at the magazine CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOODFarmers and swines full of demons. Robot cows that don’t moo. Whales in the wall of motel 6. And a man with deer antlers. My newest microfiction, “Potatoes of Promise,” is live now — a surreal piece… Read more
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Big Fish” — My Surreal Micro Story in Flash Frontier’s Fish Issue
I’m thrilled to share that my surreal micro story “Big Fish” appears in the October 2025 issue of Flash Frontier — the Fish Issue.Read it here: Flash Frontier – October 2025 Issue “Big Fish” is a short, absurd story about what it means to live inside something vast — a creature, a system, a world — and to keep scrubbing ourselves… Read more
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New Surreal Absurd Story in Bending Genres
I’m delighted to share that my story “Burning Bush” has just been published in Issue Forty-Seven of the always-exciting magazine Bending Genres! I’m thrilled and honored to be in such terrific company — with new work by Kim Magowan, Francine Witte, Glen Pourciau, and many more bold, brilliant voices pushing the boundaries of form and… Read more
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The Judo King – New Microfiction Published at Maudlin House
I’m excited to share that my new microfiction, The Judo King, is now live at Maudlin House. Maudlin House is a small press that celebrates experimental and boundary-pushing literature, blending mainstream pop culture with avant-garde storytelling. Their mission—to challenge readers’ perspectives and explore the human condition through weird, unconventional writing. Yes please! Read the Story📖 Click here to… Read more
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‘Bunker’: A New Surreal-Absurd Microfiction
🔥 New Microfiction Published: Bunker at Blood+Honey “They were the burning bush in the wilderness of starched fathers. The wolves howled outside. Mother leaned against the dresser to pop out another sister. What big eyes, said mother.” My latest microfiction, “Bunker,” is now live at Blood+Honey — a surreal, absurdist glimpse into a family’s strange rituals at the edge… Read more
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A Reading of Pickled Herring
A reading of my new surreal-absurd story called “Pickled Herring.” Recently published in the magazine Blood+Honey. You can read the story over here: https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/fiction/pickled-herring Read more
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Do you wear socks with your sandals?
It seems like so many people love the beach. Millions of humans frolicking on the beach. I am not a cocktail sippin roll in the sand kinda fella. But a beach with howling winds and nobody else around. The only thing packed is the sand. That’s a nice beach. But I moved to a beach… Read more
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PUPPY LAUNCH!
Jolly good journeys with trio of surreal-absurd readings last night with launch of my book Puppy. Also Rhubarb by Tom Jenks and Vik Shirley’s Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse. Thank you to Michelle Moloney King and Beir Bua Press for organising. Read more
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Three from Silesian Soul
Finally finding my feet again after a long year teaching high school. Working on a book of micro fictions (tentatively called Hermit Kingdom). Here are three from the “Silesian Soul” section. Sailors, moon rabbits, a bardo pond. Read more
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Lockdown in Spain: Days 10 through 15 – life in quarantine in a foreign country
My microfictions, a daily record of the lockdown in Spain, days 10-15, just published on The Growler. Read more
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY
American Horror Story broke new ground. It is horror, with a timely message. It also plays with genre. Interesting television. When I was living in Madrid, we streamed it on the computer. Sat down with it in the evenings. A kind of purge. One of the seasons has a red moon and people playing the… Read more
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God is Watching You
Here is a small excerpt, from my novel in Microfiction, Never Mind the Beasts, forthcoming in May 2020 from Dostoyevsky Wannabe. This one takes place in Milton Keynes, England, after the conversion, before immigrating to America. It is called “God is Watching You.” Read more
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Blackbox Manifold 23
Happy to have some of my nomadic surrealist prose poems in issue 23 of Blackbox Manifold. These prose poems/microfictions are from The Dreamlife of Honey, the third book of my nomadic surrealist trilogy, still in progress. Thank you to the editors, Alex Houen and Adam Piette! Issue 23 of Blackbox Manifold features work by Josh… Read more
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HAMMER AND PIGGY
Here is a story from Milton Keynes, England, in 1982, Coffee Hall Housing Estate. It is close to Christmas and after Guy Fawkes. Everything is shiny, especially the new 20P coin, an equilateral curve heptagon. This microfiction is from Never Mind the Beasts, my novel in flash fictions, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe in April 2020. Read more
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Reading of Wild Man
Are you feeling wild. Beepers were wild, especially on studly belts, in the 1990s, in Southern Utah. Here is a studly poem. From my most recent book, The Green Monk (Boiler House Press). (image: Nancy Baker, ‘Wild Man’) Read more
Never Mind the Beasts 