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The Shortlist: Best of BarBar 2024

The Shortlist: Best of BarBar 2024 is out now! The collection includes my short story ‘See You on The Other Side,’ along with some other great work!

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Here’s a brief excerpt from my story:

There’s a large apple on the desk, just a few feet away. I could feel the weight of it in my hand if I walked across the room to pick it up. But what does it mean if the apple is gone before I get there? Things disappear, inexplicably. It’s happened before. If only I could remember placing it on the desk. No matter how hard I try, I can’t. Such a small, unimportant act. So small maybe I forgot. Did I put it there? Or did the apple just … appear? And if it simply appeared out of nowhere, mightn’t it disappear just as easily?

Querencia Spring 2025 Anthology Available Now!

The Querencia Press Spring 2025 Anthology is now available to order! It includes an excerpt from my upcoming novella The Last Way (also available from Querencia Press).

Click here to get your copy today – it’s available at most other retail places as well.

The Spring 2025 Anthology is so beautifully done and includes work from many talented writers. Get your copy today – as a print issue or ebook!

When you buy the Spring 2025 Anthology, make sure to check out the excerpt from my book – and remember to pre-order your copy of The Last Way today!

“Pornography for the Gods” – a short story published in The Queer South

My short story, “Pornography for the Gods,” was published in The Queer South Anthology: LGBTQ Writers on the American South.  The anthology, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in 2014.

Order your copy from the publisher here.

You can also order a copy on Amazon.

Here’s a brief excerpt from the story:

“It says so in the Bible,” she said, her back to me.  I stared at the poofy, peroxide-tinged curls hanging down her back like orange cotton candy.

“Really?” I asked.  “It says that?”

“Yes, of course,” she answered with a certainty I didn’t yet know how to doubt.  “The Bible talks about demons walking the earth in different forms. Gay people are just one of ’em–one of the disguises they use.”

Although I’d never heard of these so-called demons before, it was hard to question my sister’s biblical expertise.  I mean, she could have been right since I never paid attention to anything in the Bible outside the book of Revelation.  Most of the rules and stories filling the rest of the holy book bored the hell out of me.  But what kid wouldn’t be captivated by tales of a great beast, the end of time, and all the other apocalyptic doom in Revelation?