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(First published in Catamaran.) "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 20th century! Take a seat. You will observe such wonders! Mercurial escapes, absurd and endless construction, utopian dreams, outrageous savagery! Wait, we still have a few tricks up our sleeve." Available online here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1416790024116-GPIAR9NNL4Y6Y843WZ4B/New+Guardian recent stories & essays "Ghost Deer," The New Guard Volume IV, adapted from Micah's novel-in-progress. Winner of the New Guard Machigonne Fiction Contest judged by Joe Wenderoth. Excerpt available online   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1447266542936-CEDK0060AI7UXZVXE6KH/Screen+Shot+2015-11-11+at+10.20.42+AM.png recent stories & essays "The Last Vacation," Brain, Child, November 2015. "One night the magnifying glass boy said to the youngest, 'Let’s talk about our relationship.' "She didn’t look up from her book, 'There’s nothing to talk about. You just annoy me.'" Available online here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1424489517642-DJSQXSDM8A7PWFWJ6R5B/Screen+Shot+2015-02-20+at+6.39.00+PM.png recent stories & essays "Mudwrestling with Edith Wharton: A Literary Pilgrimage," The Toast, February 2015. "In his essay, Franzen reminds us that after Wharton wrote in bed each morning, she tossed completed pages 'on the floor, to be sorted and types by her secretary.' Thinking of this, I kicked one of her perfectly round shrubs in frustration." Available online here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1396209315025-2Z86ZV67EDCCYQPPYUM0/karenjoyfowler.png recent stories & essays "Karen Joy Fowler's What I Didn't See," Tin House Online, September 2013. Available online here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1416790285890-LRUE4SJUO4OZUESG9OAP/image-asset.jpeg recent stories & essays “On Elizabeth Marshall Thomas’s Reindeer Moon," Tin House Volume 15, Number 3, p. 89-92. "We will live, we will eat fat, our mouths will shine." Available in print here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1396222034742-96BIZRFO57N5IPO954XF/image-asset.jpeg recent stories & essays “Escaping the Ending,” Encyclopedia Vol. A-E, edited by Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis, and Kate Schatz, 2006, p. 249-252. Available online here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1447267456313-UKC7NX3AQTFKL5JNLWBU/Screen+Shot+2015-11-11+at+10.26.53+AM.png recent stories & essays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1471544464237-6WQFUH0ANR4AVQ81ETTH/61BDeWFDn9L._AC_US160_.jpg recent stories & essays Stories There Once Was A Man Who Longed For A Child, Ghost Deer and King of Chains are now all available on audlble https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1425355794160-E95EQZC0VOF8E6U31DSN/image-asset.jpeg recent stories & essays "Back to the Beginning: Why I Write," The Rumpus, June 2014. "In the beginning was the word. And the word gave us hope that there would be another word and that word would be amazing." Available online here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1467176794829-CFSSFU64G6SM03SIR3AT/image-asset.jpeg recent stories & essays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1447268033661-I4QGACWIPBIEQ6FFFRRP/Screen+Shot+2015-11-11+at+10.26.15+AM.png recent stories & essays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1395538576954-1BL4JWQZG4DFSMGDL3R6/catamaran.jpg recent stories & essays “King of Chains," Catamaran, Volume 2, Issue 1. "Inside the can, up to his neck in milk, was Harry Houdini." Available online here. Now you can read on the go with the Audible version. Get it today! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1396208515458-GPT52OM6AEA5EA18P1MF/epoch recent stories & essays "Breathing Room," Epoch, Volume 50, Number 1, 2001. "She opens the door, walks out, closes it, and thinks, Maybe I’m a monster.” Available online here.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1396208457785-3QXCH62W1AK0ODTU14M7/chicagoquarterly.jpg recent stories & essays "The Comeback Tour," Chicago Quarterly Review, Volume 14, 2012. “Something shot up into her nose, like a super-sized portion of wasabi.” Available online here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1395538626448-U7IFWCAA147TK5SA6KF8/Ben-1-200x200.jpg recent stories & essays "Saturday Rumpus Interview with Ben Strader," The Rumpus, January 2013. Available online here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/531e1fb8e4b05616ec39af7c/1419382167310-6JG722OBQOYARLXWAC1T/image-asset.png recent stories & essays "Old Boyfriends Behaving Badly," OZY, December 2014. "We laughed and laughed like we were high — until he drove up an exit ramp onto I-89. 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