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

“Rain”
“The Ostrich and the Aliens”
“The Candelabra”
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:
“The Cape”
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/
New Book!
It’s here! My first picture book– The Baseball Player and the Walrus, illustrated by Alex Latimer– out Feb 24 from Dial Books for Young Readers. Pick one up today, or come down to Skylight Books on Saturday the 28th for the Release Party!





