I’ve posted a few short stories here. Some of them have been published. Some of them haven’t, and when you read them, you’ll know why. I thought I would share them anyway because there’s nothing sadder than a story wanting to be read.

I began my career writing short stories. I love the form, the economy of language, and the chance to visit a character during the most important moment of his life.  Since I started writing novels, I haven’t written as many stories. I hope to get back to them some day soon.

It goes without saying that if I were to write these stories now, they would be different. Hopefully, they would be better, technically, but they would lose the qualities that the writer-I-was gave them.

• Broken Circles (1993)
• Cut Bait (1990)
• Eating Dirt (1994)
• Going for Broke (1995)
• A Pale Heart (1990)
• People’s Song (1996)
• The Road to Hell (2005)
• Rubberband Man (2005)
• Scent of Apples (1998)
• Small Timid Comfort(1994)