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July 4, 2010, a House of Cards excerpt included in Heavy Feather Review Issue 2

My wife, Holly, is starting to appear pregnant. She enjoys being pregnant. And she enjoys breastfeeding. She breastfed our son, Avery, for twenty-seven months, and only stopped because her doctor suggested that it might have contributed to the miscarriages. She cried for … Continue reading

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My essay Scar Tissue to be included in forthcoming Wising Up Press Daring to Repair anthology

Learned today that the forthcoming Daring to Repair anthology from Wising Up Press will include my essay Scar Tissue, a portion of which originally appeared last year in Zouch Magazine. The call: What defines a good marriage? A loyal friendship? A healthy family? … Continue reading

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Inertia issue 12

House of Cards underwent massive reconstruction, switching from second- to first-person. An excerpt appears in the current issue of Inertia Magazine. My wife Holly is starting to appear pregnant. She enjoys being pregnant. And she enjoys breastfeeding. She breastfed our … Continue reading

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More headlights. More cars.

About seven months ago, the editor of Whistling Fire accepted the excerpt from HOUSE OF CARDS in which I tried twice to kill myself. She didn’t know when the excerpt would run. In the fall, a version of this excerpt … Continue reading

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Fluency in Pure Slush

I delve into alternate languages in latest issue of Pure Slush. The first word in this new language parenthood requires me to learn isaba, which is, I learn only after weeks of struggling to match it to a word in … Continue reading

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