a book with a banging door

The Healing at Sein & Werden

2011-07-13T09:08:00.002-04:00

Yup, I'm still alive, unhealed, and writing occasionally with The Healing in the Wunderkammer issue being the latest.

Quantum Genre anthology from PARAPHILIA

2010-11-10T19:31:00.007-05:00

PARAPHILIA MAGAZINE has just published the Quantum Genre in the Planet of the Arts anthology (website here, direct download here) which includes my story "Zinna". The quantum genre is defined by the editor V. Ulea as having the following properties:

1. quantum duality of characters
2. the uncertainty effect
3. quantum entanglement
4. quantum time
5. the observer/interpreter effect

I hope there will be more opportunities to explore the Quantum Genre in the future, both as writer and reader. Thanks to V. Ulea for her work in editing and finding a publisher!

1581 story

2010-10-04T14:49:00.002-04:00

It's been a while!

My 1581 story, November, an Annointing, has just been posted at for every year.

general update

2010-05-02T14:30:00.004-04:00

The Quantum Genre anthology, originally to be published by Crossing Chaos-Enigmatic Ink, may not appear as originally scheduled, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I will have a short fiction upcoming in for every year.

amanda peet; dow jones index

MiCrow Fiction

2010-02-15T21:03:00.001-05:00

Linda's First Day is now available in the Winter 2010 MiCrow issue at Full of Crow.

Story at >kill author

2010-01-31T13:46:00.004-05:00

Everything in my Childhood was Quiet is in the fifth issue of >kill author.

Love the quote by Octavio Paz (to whom the fifth issue is dedicated) so I'll reprint it:

“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”

Krepler @ nefarious muse

2010-01-14T14:09:00.003-05:00

My short fiction Krepler is now online at nefarious muse.

Review of "Sui Generis" and Other Fictions

2010-01-09T19:59:00.002-05:00

My review of "Sui Generis" and Other Fictions by Marc Lowe is online at Sein und Werden. Marc's e-book is now available for download here.

otoliths publication

2009-10-31T15:40:00.001-04:00

I have a very short piece, Trellis, in issue 15 of otoliths.

Reprint in Sein und Werden Issue

2009-09-29T18:15:00.001-04:00

"Mark on the Wall" is reprinted in the Autumn 2009 issue of Sein und Werden, ominously titled All Things Move Toward Their End.

Vantage Point at Wamack

2009-09-14T20:27:00.001-04:00

I have a new fiction published at Wamack:A Journal of the Arts.

Two very Short fictions published

2009-08-30T19:20:00.001-04:00

A 50 word story at 50-to-1 and "Flaubert Attacks" at Calliope Nerve.

fiction @ Gloom Cupboard

2009-06-11T09:55:00.001-04:00

my fiction (interruption one) can be found in Gloom Cupboard #97 here.

Quantum Genre Anthology

2009-06-06T16:41:00.002-04:00

My short story "Zinna" will appear in the anthology Quantum Genre on the Planet of Arts edited by V. Ulea. For more on this anthology, check out the Crossing Chaos enigmatic ink website.

Five Lights @ decomP

2009-05-29T16:01:00.001-04:00

My flash fiction Five Lights is now online in the June issue of decomP.

Fiction in Print issue of Sein und Werden

2009-05-06T21:42:00.003-04:00

My fiction The Doll House Interviews is in Sein und Werden's print issue for Spring 2009, Cinematique. I just received my contributor copy today (in a package well mangled by the UK post service). The print issue can be purchased here.

Shirley Jackson Awards

2009-05-01T12:17:00.003-04:00

Tom English informed me yesterday that the Bound for Evil anthology to which I contributed a short story ("The Reference Book") is on the ballot for the 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards. The winners will be announced July 12th 2009.

Diet Soap Podcast

2009-04-16T20:21:00.001-04:00

My collaborative essay with Brandon Chan-Yung is featured in Diet Soap's first podcast. Give it a listen!

the woman who followed

2009-04-02T17:48:00.001-04:00

My prose poem the woman who followed was just published at Counterexample Poetics.

Seventy Two Words

2009-03-08T13:38:00.001-04:00

I have a little ditty up at Seventy Two Words.

Showing both sides of his smile...(read more)

Posthuman essay in Diet Soap

2009-02-28T15:22:00.002-05:00

Issue 3 of Diet Soap featuring my essay Becoming Posthuman: Toward a Redefinition with collaborator Brandon Chan-Yung is available now on Lulu.

Unseen Childhoods almost ready...

2009-02-22T21:16:00.000-05:00

More on Unseen Childhoods is on the Bettany Press site.

This ground-breaking study examines disabled role models, stereotypes and the inclusion/exclusion of disabled characters in 20th-century books for girls and looks at how these change and develop — or fail to change and develop — from the early years through to the middle period and then the last years of the century. Accessible and varied, this collection of essays will appeal to everyone with an interest in children's books, as well as to disabled people and their families, and to students and scholars working in the fields of Children's Literature, Women’s Studies and Disability Studies.

Unseen Childhoods includes:
Helen A. Aveling on the representation of illness and disability within early 20th-century fiction
Linda Dick on how disability was stigmatised in young adult fiction for the ‘baby boomer’ generation in the U.K. and North America
Louise Norlie on stereotyping in late 20th-century children’s fiction
Helen A. Aveling on disabled role models in early 20th-century girls’ school stories
Deborah Kent on alternative representations of blind girls in mid-century children’s fiction
Meredith Guthrie on ‘diabetic’ fiction
Ju Gosling & Julie Newman on illness, disability & mental health in Elsie J. Oxenham’s ‘Abbey’ books
Ju Gosling on illness and disability in Elinor M. Brent-Dyer’s Chalet School series
Rebecca Butler on the representation of relationships between disabled characters and their siblings in contemporary children’s fiction

Sein und Werden stuff

2009-02-19T14:46:00.000-05:00

My publication Letters got a nice mention in Grace Andreacchi's review of the latest online issue of Sein und Werden.

Also I will have a fiction in the upcoming print issue of Sein.

Surveillance/Reconnaissance @ Pinstripe Fedora

2009-01-08T20:48:00.002-05:00

Binoculars grope from a slit in the window...

A Fable of Heraclitus @ Raven Electrick

2009-01-07T20:20:00.002-05:00

The magician's daughter never saw beyond the cottage's shuttered windows...(Read More)

De Daumier - Smith’s Blue Period @ Titular

2008-12-28T14:29:00.002-05:00

(a Nine Stories Collaborative)

...Don’t move, please....

Letters @ Sein und Werden

2008-12-18T20:44:00.001-05:00

Dear K ---, I feel it's time to have more at our fingertips...

Harvest @ the Maynard

2008-12-09T20:58:00.002-05:00

There was so much that. Plentiful. Bountiful....

(The full Maynard website with frames).

I Do Not Think They Will Sing For Me (Byzarium)

2008-10-07T09:19:00.001-04:00

I’m opening the cabinet now…The solitary tin can contains beets, what else? Only I can access the cabinet; the little ones are shrunk oh so small; they circle my legs, scratching at my heels...READ MORE

A Mark from Virginia Woolf's Wall (Neon Magazine)

2008-09-30T20:17:00.002-04:00

First you notice the mark on the wall and then you are suspicious that it is moving...(Read More...)

Dissolution by Rabbit

2008-09-16T16:51:00.002-04:00

To me, humanity is not strictly human. I have encountered pigeon people, walrus people, and porpoise people. But rabbit people-–they are different.

I received a voicemail from a man who claimed to hold the answer to a famous academic controversy. He dropped tantalizing hints about a groundbreaking theory he had developed in secret. I supposed he was some eccentric amateur seeking to contact a renowned university professor well known in the field, someone like me.

READ MORE...

Becoming Posthuman: Toward a Redefinition

2008-07-16T20:00:00.002-04:00

"Here, from the immense atrium situated on the prow, you can stare out to sea as though you were watching it on a gigantic screen." —Elementary Particles, Houellebecq

The "posthuman" is generally conceived as (1) a fusion between the human body and technological media, a "cyborg", (2) a genetically "perfect" being that no longer knows sex as difference or uses sex as a means of reproduction, (3) a human being who is beyond binary constructions and, as such, beyond subjectivity itself, or (4) some combination of the above...Read More....

A big thank you to my collaborator - it is always great working with you!