Story XXIII: Untitled

Microfiction

Feb 15

14

15

Twelve Words

Your turn: Recreate Story XXIII, next week's microfiction 'Untitled,' using the exact words below.

Feb 8

8

34

2

Iceland, Redux: A Reader's Letter

On Storytelling, Self-Deception, and Laundered Violence

Feb 1

14

11

4

January 2026

It’s Raining Dogs

My Afterwords on Bucket List. Dogs and more dogs. I'm turning into a literary veterinarian.

Jan 25

13

31

5

Story XXII: Bucket List

A husband plans his retirement.

Jan 18

24

33

2

A Husband Plans His Retirement

An excerpt from Bucket List, Story XXII. The full story next Sunday.

Jan 12

19

9

2

December 2025

Afterwords: Iceland

On first-person narrators who lie to themselves and Philip's describing "yoga" when witnessing his wife in trauma.

Dec 28, 2025

16

8

1

The Stories

In February 2024 I committed to writing one story a month for a hundred months. This is the journey to May 2032. Join me Sunday for the stories, the…

Dec 28, 2025

10

2

The Christmas Letters

In 2001, I began writing my children "Christmas Eve Letters." These letters were filed away to be delivered annually starting the year they moved away…

Dec 24, 2025

11

15

1

Story XXI: Iceland

A long weekend in Iceland, revisited.

Dec 20, 2025

18

21

4

PLUR1BUS

So just how good is Apple TV's show?

Dec 7, 2025

16

28

2

November 2025

Afterwords: Liner Notes

There was a guy who kept hundreds of reptiles in his house. He had iguanas in the sock drawers, glass aquariums with hairy spiders under black lights…

Nov 30, 2025

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