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Good news, folks! Today I got a story accepted by Flash Fiction Magazine: The International Short-Short Story Publication based in the United Kingdom. They’ll published my war short-short, “Just [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen: TRACHODON Magazine can now be purchased as an eBook. You can read it on Kindle, you can read it on Sony Reader. You can read it on your Palm Pilot, you can read it as a PDF. [...]

Last night I dreamed I was an American soldier, home on leave from Iraq. The city I once called home now appeared bright and shallow. The streetlights gave me headaches. I felt safer in the dark, [...]

For one night, the high desert turned on top of itself. And the wind howled like a train careening off its tracks. And the cattle circled for warmth, frigid bodies pressed into the shape of black [...]

Very early in the morning… a fleet of Jentel animals awoke. They mashed and fried, frittered and carved, baked and stirred, whipped and thickened… And the humans came to eat the [...]

My writing, reading, and submitting rhythm have been feeling a little off ever since I arrived at Jentel. I understand that a major reason for this is the fact that having my foot in a cast means [...]

The temperature ranged between 4 and 10 degrees today, with overnight lows for tonight expected to hit negative 7. CC, the photographer, hopped into her car at dusk for her daily drive to the top [...]

Three of my war short-shorts were published by Future Cycle Flash today. These stories are available online right now and will be published in a paperback anthology next year. I’m very excited to [...]

Yesterday, the high plains of Wyoming pulsed with the most enchanting, electric gray color I’ve ever seen. Wind roared across the prairie for hours, carrying sugar-fine granules of snow that [...]

Folks might be wondering why I keep talking about the “gumbo roads” of high desert Wyoming. For an explanation, I look no further than my trusty dictionary of landscape terminology, Home Ground, [...]