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Reading
Jane Addams:
Twenty Years at Hull-House
[BIO]
Listening
The Clean:
"In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul"
[BIO]
Writing
"Mahalia"
(Midwestern Gothic)
"Tangled in Wishes"
(Journal of Microliterature)
"The Last Final Copy"
(On the Clock: Contemporary Short Stories of Work)
"Conned and Bruised"
(A Twist of Noir)
"One Son Resists"
(Green Lantern Press)
"Clean and Bright"
(Joyland)
"Button"
(Shoots and Vines)
"Alleys Are the Footnotes of the Avenues"
(Shoots and Vines)
"Moonlight"
(decomP)
"Quit These Hills"
(Big Pulp)
"Mercy Day"
(RAGAD)
"Deep in the Northwoods"
(Wheelhouse Magazine)
"Howard Holds Court"
(Birmingham Arts Journal)
"Waiting On a Train"
(RAGAD)
"Power"
(The Clarity of Night)
"Guaranteed"
(Spillway Review)
"Big Question"
(Boston Literary Magazine)
"This Time"
(55 Words)
"Immortality"
(THE2NDHAND)
"Freewheeling"
(Dogmatika)
"The Fixer"
(Gapers Block)
"Ralph's Last Call"
(The Angler)
"Can't Be Happy Today, But Tomorrow"
(Skive Magazine)
"Mighty Casey"
(Zisk)
"Ectoplasm"
(Storyglossia)
"Captions Without Photos"
(Gapers Block)
"Blown"
(Writer's Resource Center)
"Have A Pleasant Commute On Metra"
(This is Grand)
"The Retreat"
(monochrom)
Published Here:
"The Copper Responds"
"One Evening in St. Paul"
"The Lovely Miss Underwood"
"Insomnis"
"We Do Not Approve"
"The Ghoul's Evening Visit"
Various Microfiction
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