Category Archives: Short Stories

IT’S A HALF-DAY PASS and Miss Crawford says it’s not a choice. It’s part of the pre-release thing. They want you to do things with your kid again to get them ready. Miss Crawford says it won’t be hard for … Continue reading →

Published as “Endless Summer” in This Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, #14 for Paul Cody THEY SAW ME AT THE LAKE, when I had the cast on, the one I made in the basement. They saw me messing with the trailer … Continue reading →

a children’s story A LONG TIME AGO in Ireland, there was a man named St. Patrick. But before he became a saint, he was just a man named Patrick. To become a saint he had to perform a miracle, and … Continue reading →

ALL RIGHT, SETTLE DOWN. We don’t have long so I need you to listen to me closely.  Take notes if you want to but when you’re out there you’re not going to have time to check them.  You’re going to have … Continue reading →

Published in the Fall 1999 Issue of Ploughshares WHY WAS IT, Janice thought, that everything took longer than you wanted?–like life. It was the last day of summer, their last day together, and all the way upstate her mother went on … Continue reading →