Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day was translated into Farsi and published in Iran a few years ago. Today I learned that it has gone into its third printing there. Here it is, in action– it’s the third one on the right in the top row, the one with the light switch on the cover (from the story “The Girl in the Storm”). Many thanks to the translator, Asadollah Amrae!

My story “Rain,” which was recently published in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, was just featured by Ross McMeekin as “The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week” over on the Ploughshares Blog. You can read what he has to say about it here:

Learned today that Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day has gone into an eighth printing!

I have a story called “Rain” up over at The Journal for Compressed Creative Arts, which is run by Matter Press. You can read it here:

So I wrote a little story called “The Ostrich and the Aliens.” The big plan is that someday I’ll convince Chuck Jones to come back from the dead and turn it into a Warner Brothers cartoon circa 1956. But until then, it’s up over at Tin House! You can read it here if you like:

I wrote a story called “The Candelabra,” and The Masters Review published it as the finale of their celebration of Short Story Month. You can read it here:

Got my contributor copies of Salt Hill Journal 34 today, which contains a little story of mine called “The Cape,” which I like very much. Get it here: http://salthilljournal.net/sh34/