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All the Stories
--- | 1-800-Get-Back | 945 | Abrir Los Brazos Como Se Abren Los Ojos | Addicted to Running but Didn’t Realize it until He Got a Bad Cramp and Had to Stop | Airports Pretty Much Suck* | All Children In His Eyes | Allusions | An Amnesiac Does the New York Times Crossword Puzzle | And They're All A Positive | Apology Expected | The Arm | An Average, Everday Story | Bad Motorcycalia | A Bag of Broken Groceries | Baghdad Etude | Ballad of the Almost | Bar. Dark. Drunk. Shots of Whiskey, Sips of Beer. Crappy Baseball Game on TV. Overweight. Almost 30. | The Barely Tale | Batman Quits | Being Mila Kunis | The Best Pie in Town | Beware of the Doug | Big Mac with Fries | Billy Bob Thornton | Blood Thicker | Blueberry Muffins | Breakfast of Mushrooms | Breakup Deli | Broke my Trigger Finger | A Bucket of Fried Chicken | But Frederick, You Died Last Week | The Butler Did It | Calculation, from Latin, Calx, Meaning Small Stone | Calculus Calculus | Celebrate Bloodless Coup | The Celerity Club | Chapter Seven | Chatter | The Chess Game | Chivalry | Christmas Story | Circle Six | The Clothes that Women Wear | The Color of Television | Congratulations | Consumption Is the Definition of Food | A Conversation | Corny Love Poem, 2000 | Cougars, Tigers, and Milfs, Oh My | Cowards in the Face of Time | Cowboy Coffee | Cuadrado Punto | The Custodians | Dana's Got Hips | David Meets Gloria | A Day in the Life of the Earl | Dear Son | Death by Laundry | Death Got Served* | Depth of Meaning in an Apparently Simple Poem | The Devil Inside- A Bad Film Review | Dex Boulder | Diary of a Mad Man | A Different Kind of Fan Fiction | Different Rules, Same Game | Dilemma | Dinnertime | Doctor Chicago* | Dodecon's Butch | Don’t Go, Jason Waterfalls | Don't Tell Mr. Peterson | Do the Math, Waco | Doug | Dueling Banjos | Duncan Heights | Earnest Vs. The Bottle | Elevator | The Embrace | Encore! | Even the Devil Hates Halloween | Everybody Misses Victoria | An Exciting Tale | Execution Requires Preparation | Exegesis is Masturbation.docx | Existential Job | Extradition | Fate for Dummies | Fatigues | Fat Martha | The Fattest Zombie in the World* | Film Review: Elf | A Fine Day In Our Department Store | Fingers and Toes | A Flesh Eating Zombie Climbs The Empire State Building* | For Doris | For Edgar Sex | The Frank and Zombie Show* | From Swanson's Le Roy Qui ne Peut pas Marcher | Genesis | A Ghost in the Sun | Gnivigsknaht | A Good Man is Hard to Fine for Jaywalking | Gratuitous Violence | Gravy Stains | Halloween Story | A Hazy Shade of Thin Mint | He Has Not Forgiven You, He’s Made You Mad | He Wants to be Productive | Hillbillilluminatti | Homicide Epistles | Hopscotch | Hortense Goes for a Walk | The House Seller | How Do They Rank Sushi Chefs? | How We Lost Our Jobs (Later We Got New Jobs) | How Would You Like to Go to Mars? | Hugh's Bris | I Am a Werewolf* | I Bet You're Amazing Too | Icy Drops of Water Running Down the Sides | If You Believe in Cause and Effect | I'll Sleep When I'm Reborn I Love Roger | I Am Getting So Damn Tired of All These Ninjas in My House | Implants Versus Zombies* | Impossible Escape | It Might Rain Any Time | International Dadaism Month | In Their Own Words: Famous Dutch Philosophers | It's March 28th, 2005 | It's A Symbol | I Used to Write All The Time | James Brown | The Jeff Webb Blues | The Joaquin Dead* | John 11:35 | John Smith | Just Another Tuesday | Just a Pipe | Karate-Chop Jones | Kathy Scotland | Keep Calm and Bang That Drum | Kleesh | Kow Pow | The Last Days Of Amile Leadbetter | Lemon Jefferson, Stripper Pole Salesman | Lemons | Lemons (in 2nd person) | Lester Waiting | Let's Say You Don't Know Anything About Fly Fishing | Letter of Recommendation for Victoria Sevilla | Lev Grettel, Crucifixion Specialist | Life Without Chairs | Loser Chic | Louis Manger | Make Believe is Fun | Man of the House Now | Max is a Total Retard | Messin' With Texas | Microwave Popcorn | Midlife Crisis | A Minor Incident at Parkwood and 45th | Missing Jesse | The Most Important Person in the Restaurant | Movie Review: Spice World | Mr. Luigi's Delicious Pizzas | Murdering Our Mothers | My Illegal Aliens | My Sister Sam | Never His Father's Son | Neverything's the Same | Night Terror | 9 Volt | No One Escaped | No, I'm Not | Nobody Got Killed | Nostalgia Means Now Tastes Bad | Now What Am I Going to Do for Eyes | One/Every/One Thing | One Vagina in Particular | The Only Damn Love Story I Hope I Ever Write | On the Day of My Mother's Funeral I Woke Up a Changed Man | The Opposite of Angst | The Packaging Costs More than the Food | Page 193-195 of The Norton Anthology of Self-Indulgent White Boy Writers | Paranoia is a Rorschach Test | Parody of an Anime Parody | Pearls Before Swine | A Perfect Conversation | The Perfect Crime: Perfect Justice | Permutations | Phil's Bed and Breakfast | The Phone | Pop Zombie Punk* | Puget Sound Thunder Lizard | Queen's Gambit | Rain | Recycle that Water that Falls from Your Eyes | A Resurrection* | Reverse Stalking | Riot Breaks Out at Sociologist Conference | Rocks | Ross Lytton Says | Running Away | Scalene | The Scare Crow | Scary Algebra Story | Scary English Class Story | Scary Sock-Hop Story | The Secret Red Book | Seduction | September 18th, 1994 | She Said | The Short Story Experiment | Six Months After She Moved Away from Washington DC | The Slave Ship | The Sleek Silver Robot | Sometime Around Eight in the Evening | The Soul-Ship Raven in the Pendragon Star System | Special Delivery* | Spirit | The Squirrel Interviews Satan | Step On A Crack | Still Life With Zombie* | Sting the Bees | Storm In Winter | A Story with Sex In | Sucks To Be You | Suicide Fantasies | Suicide Note | The Summer Job | The Sun is Shining and it is Raining | Sung Lee's | Supper | The Taffy Mafia* | The Tale of Albert Hand | Talking to Appliance | Team Meeting | Ted? Don't You Love Me Anymore? | Terry's Wife* | Thanksgiving Story | Thank You for Banking with First National | There is Nothing in My Head | There Is No I in Assume There's Worse Things Than Zombies* | The Things People Will Do | This is Why They Number Channels Sequentially | Three Kinds of Love | Three Quarks for Muster Mark | Throwing Stones | A Thursday Night in July | Thus He Spake of Adoration | The To Be Verb Killed Kurt Cobain | Today is Saturday | Too Many Toes | Tooth and Nail* | The Town Council Meeting | The Trouble with Moe | Try | Tsogh Story | The Turbine | Twins | Two Learnéd English Gentleman | Unstoppbale and Umoveable Come to an Accord | A Vampiric History: Cerrick and Iggy | Vegas Tap Water | Waiter | Waiting for Michelle | We Accidentally Found a Trillion Dollars | Welcome to The Infinite Robot World | Welcome to Lou's Bar | What It's Like, Looking Like George Clooney | When the Tough Get Going | The Way of the Hummingbird William Johnson | The Wind Off the Bay | Wine, Women, and Song | The Witch Nutella | Women and Men | YOU Are the Experiment | Your Name Was Albert | You Too, Steve? | Zombies Were People Too* | Zomnambulism*

*Starred titles have been removed, and can now be found in Still Life, With Zombie, a short story collection available at Amazon on Kindle and Kindle-enabled devices.

Most Recent Stories: Coming soon. Usually posted at my blog and tagged "fiction" if you can't wait.

Stories Written in 2013
Talking to Appliance | Hillbillilluminatti | Vegas Tap Water | How Do They Rank Sushi Chefs? | Dueling Banjos | I'll Sleep When I'm Reborn This is Why They Number Channels Sequentially | Apology Expected | I Bet You're Amazing Too | Keep Calm and Bang That Drum | The Joaquin Dead* | Terry's Wife* | The Color of Television | Don’t Go, Jason Waterfalls | A Hazy Shade of Thin Mint | How We Lost Our Jobs (Later We Got New Jobs) | Exegesis is Masturbation.docx | He Has Not Forgiven You, He’s Made You Mad | Fat Martha | Hugh's Bris | Now What Am I Going to Do for Eyes | Team Meeting | 9 Volt |

Stories Written in 2012
Calculation, from Latin, Calx, Meaning Small Stone | Puget Sound Thunder Lizard | Circle Six | I Am a Werewolf | Let's Say You Don't Know Anything About Fly Fishing | And They're All A Positive | Implants Versus Zombies* | Paranoia is a Rorschach Test | Just Another Tuesday | But Frederick, You Died Last Week | Different Rules, Same Game | Icy Drops of Water Running Down the Sides | Lemon Jefferson, Stripper Pole Salesman | Messin' With Texas | Mr. Luigi's Delicious Pizzas | The Devil Inside- A Bad Film Review | The Witch Nutella | We Accidentally Found a Trillion Dollars | Being Mila Kunis | Fate for Dummies | Death by Laundry | Suicide Note | The Most Important Person in the Restaurant | Lester Waiting | Your Name Was Albert | Step On A Crack | Twins | There Is No I in Assume | The Short Story Experiment | The Custodians | Chatter | I Am Getting So Damn Tired of All These Ninjas in My House | What It's Like, Looking Like George Clooney | YOU Are the Experiment

Stories Written in 2010 and 2011
The Opposite of Angst | Bad Motorcycalia | Do the Math, Waco | Lev Grettel, Crucifixion Specialist | A Minor Incident at Parkwood and 45th | My Illegal Aliens | Reverse Stalking | Microwave Popcorn | When the Tough Get Going | The Secret Red Book | Tooth and Nail* | Special Delivery* | Cowboy Coffee | Cougars, Tigers, and Milfs, Oh My | Addicted to Running but Didn’t Realize it until He Got a Bad Cramp and Had to Stop | The Sleek Silver Robot | An Amnesiac Does the New York Times Crossword Puzzle | Sucks To Be You | Lemons | Lemons (in 2nd person) | Airports Pretty Much Suck* | Midlife Crisis | The Butler Did It | Pop Zombie Punk* | Blueberry Muffins | Breakup Deli | Doctor Chicago* | Today is Saturday | A Different Kind of Fan Fiction | A Bag of Broken Groceries | Earnest Vs. The Bottle | The Taffy Mafia* | Death Got Served* | Bar. Dark. Drunk. Shots of Whiskey, Sips of Beer. Crappy Baseball Game on TV. Overweight. Almost 30. | It Might Rain Any Time | There's Worse Things Than Zombies* | Tsogh Story | The Trouble with Moe | Even the Devil Hates Halloween | Recycle that Water that Falls from Your Eyes | He Wants to be Productive | Parody of an Anime Parody | Six Months After She Moved Away from Washington DC | Unstoppbale and Umoveable Come to an Accord | Gratuitous Violence | One Vagina in Particular | The Fattest Zombie in the World* | On the Day of My Mother's Funeral I Woke Up a Changed Man

Stories Written Between 2001 and 2010
1-800-Get-Back | Batman Quits | If You Believe in Cause and Effect | A Perfect Conversation | Billy Bob Thornton | Welcome to The Infinite Robot World | I Used to Write All The Time | It's March 28th, 2005 | Kleesh | Permutations | The Squirrel Interviews Satan | Thank You for Banking with First National | The Frank and Zombie Show* | Zombies Were People Too* | How Would You Like to Go to Mars? | Still Life With Zombie* | Loser Chic | My Sister Sam | Existential Job | John 11:35 | You Too, Steve? | Zomnambulism* | The House Seller | A Day in the Life of the Earl | Too Many Toes | The Town Council Meeting | A Fine Day In Our Department Store | A Resurrection* | Kow Pow | Dex Boulder | Max is a Total Retard | The Way of the Hummingbird

Award Winners
Throwing Stones 1st Prize, Short Story Over 2000 Words, Phelan Awards, 1998 | Sung Lee's 1st Prize for the first section, "Marge," Short Story Under 2000 Words, Phelan Awards, 1998 | Duncan Heights 3rd Prize, Short Story Over 2000 Words, Phelan Awards, 1999 | Broke my Trigger Finger 2nd Prize, Short Story Under 2000 Words, Phelan Awards, 1999 | Running Away 2nd Prize, Short Story Over 2000 Words, Phelan Awards, 2000 | The Best Pie in Town 2nd Prize, Short Story Under 2000 Words, Phelan Awards, 2000

My Favorites
John Smith | Sung Lee's | Karate-Chop Jones | A Good Man is Hard to Fine for Jaywalking | Beware of the Doug | A Flesh Eating Zombie Climbs The Empire State Building* | Abrir Los Brazos Como Se Abren Los Ojos | A Bucket of Fried Chicken | Extradition | Suicide Fantasies | Duncan Heights | The Arm | Running Away | Throwing Stones | Cuadrado Punto | A Thursday Night in July | The Best Pie in Town | Broke my Trigger Finger | Fatigues | Fingers and Toes | Life Without Chairs | The Soul-Ship Raven in the Pendragon Star System | Thus He Spake of Adoration | Kleesh | Zombies Were People Too*> | You Too, Steve? | The Sleek Silver Robot | Just Another Tuesday | Different Rules, Same Game | Messin' With Texas | Chatter

Stories in the Second Person
September 18th, 1994 | Sometime Around Eight in the Evening | The Summer Job | A Thursday Night in July | How Would You Like to Go to Mars? Lemons (in 2nd person) | Six Months After She Moved Away from Washington DC | Your Name Was Albert

Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories
The Barely Tale | Celebrate Bloodless Coup | Cowards in the Face of Time | An Exciting Tale | Genesis | Make Believe is Fun | Waiting for Michelle | Tooth and Nail* | The Sleek Silver Robot | Just Another Tuesday | The Witch Nutella

Holiday Stories
Christmas Story | Halloween Story | Thanksgiving Story

Stories about Love, Relationships, Crushes, etc.
Ted? Don't You Love Me Anymore? | Waiting for Michelle | Allusions | Baghdad Etude | Blood Thicker | Chapter Seven | Chivalry | Corny Love Poem, 2000 | Dana's Got Hips | David Meets Gloria | Dilemma | Duncan Heights | For Doris | I Love Roger | It's A Symbol | Never His Father's Son | The Only Damn Love Story I Hope I Ever Write | Scalene | She Said | The Tale of Albert Hand | Three Kinds of Love | Waiter | Women and Men | Doctor Chicago*

Stories with Zombies in Them
A Flesh Eating Zombie Climbs The Empire State Building* | The Frank and Zombie Show* | Zombies Were People Too* | Still Life With Zombie* | Zomnambulism* | A Resurrection* | Special Delivery* | Airports Pretty Much Suck* | Pop Zombie Punk* | Doctor Chicago* | The Taffy Mafia* | There's Worse Things Than Zombies* | The Fattest Zombie in the World* | Implants Versus Zombies* | Terry's Wife* | The Joaquin Dead*

Stories with Vampires in Them
The Celerity Club | Dinnertime | The Embrace | Halloween Story | A Vampiric History: Cerrick and Iggy | I'll Sleep When I'm Reborn

Stories with Other Supernatural Elements in Them
All Children In His Eyes | The Arm | A Day in the Life of the Earl | A Ghost in the Sun | A Good Man is Hard to Fine for Jaywalking | The House Seller | Scary Algebra Story | Scary English Class Story | Scary Sock-Hop Story | Storm In Winter | Tooth and Nail* | Death Got Served* | Tsogh Story | Even the Devil Hates Halloween | I Am a Werewolf* | The Custodians | I Am Getting So Damn Tired of All These Ninjas in My House

Stories of an Experimental Nature
A Flesh Eating Zombie Climbs The Empire State Building* | --- | The Barely Tale | 945 | Abrir Los Brazos Como Se Abren Los Ojos | Big Mac with Fries | A Bucket of Fried Chicken | Everybody Misses Victoria | Extradition | Gnivigsknaht | Karate-Chop Jones | No, I'm Not | The Packaging Costs More than the Food | The Slave Ship | Sting the Bees | Suicide Fantasies | Wine, Women, and Song | Thank You for Banking with First National | Dex Boulder | Tooth and Nail* | A Different Kind of Fan Fiction | Recycle that Water that Falls from Your Eyes | Gratuitous Violence | Icy Drops of Water Running Down the Sides | We Accidentally Found a Trillion Dollars

Fake Scholarship
Corny Love Poem, 2000 | Cuadrado Punto | Dodecon's Butch | From Swanson's Le Roy Qui ne Peut pas Marcher | In Their Own Words: Famous Dutch Philosophers | Letter of Recommendation for Victoria Sevilla | Page 193-195 of The Norton Anthology of Self-Indulgent White Boy Writers | Thus He Spake of Adoration | Depth of Meaning in an Apparently Simple Poem | Pop Zombie Punk* | Riot Breaks Out at Sociologist Conference | International Dadaism Month | Film Review: Elf | Exegesis is Masturbation.docx |

Insincere Mockery of Creative Non-Fiction
If You Believe in Cause and Effect | Billy Bob Thornton | It's March 28th, 2005 | The Frank and Zombie Show* | Still Life With Zombie* | My Sister Sam | Existential Job | John 11:35

Stories that are Merely Dialogues
--- | The Chess Game | A Conversation | Nostalgia Means Now Tastes Bad | Ted? Don't You Love Me Anymore? | The Turbine | Two Learnéd English Gentleman | Women and Men | The Squirrel Interviews Satan

Stories with Children in Them
Make Believe is Fun | The Arm | A Flesh Eating Zombie Climbs The Empire State Building* | Scary Algebra Story | Scary English Class Story | Scary Sock-Hop Story | Doug | Hopscotch | Just a Pipe | Missing Jesse | Queen's Gambit | Rocks | Running Away | Throwing Stones | Still Life With Zombie* | My Sister Sam | The Taffy Mafia* | It Might Rain Any Time | Max is a Total Retard | Step On A Crack | But Frederick, You Died Last Week | YOU Are the Experiment | Fate for Dummies

Stories that are Merely Character Sketches
Doug | James Brown | John Smith | Kathy Scotland | Louis Manger | Sung Lee's | William Johnson | Karate-Chop Jones | A Good Man is Hard to Fine for Jaywalking | Beware of the Doug | Hortense Goes for a Walk | The Jeff Webb Blues | No One Escaped | The Scare Crow | Today is Saturday | Lemon Jefferson, Stripper Pole Salesman

Stories that are Not Very Good, Really
Missing Jesse | Storm In Winter | Neverything's the Same | Louis Manger | The Last Days Of Amile Leadbetter | Doug | Rocks | Night Terror | Encore! | A Vampiric History: Cerrick and Iggy | Queen's Gambit | The Clothes that Women Wear | William Johnson | Execution Requires Preparation | Celebrate Bloodless Coup | A Ghost in the Sun | Dear Son | Allusions | Pearls Before Swine | It's A Symbol | One/Every/One Thing | Waiter | Never His Father's Son | Baghdad Etude | The Scare Crow | Spirit | The Embrace | Supper | Dana's Got Hips | If You Believe in Cause and Effect | I Used to Write All The Time | The Squirrel Interviews Satan | Kow Pow | Cougars, Tigers, and Milfs, Oh My | A Bag of Broken Groceries | It Might Rain Any Time | Tsogh Story | He Wants to be Productive | There Is No I in Assume | The Way of the Hummingbird | But Frederick, You Died Last Week | Mr. Luigi's Delicious Pizzas

Stories of Fewer Than 500 Words
Chivalry (209 words) | The Barely Tale (245 words) | Dilemma (282 words) | All Children In His Eyes (293 words) | Congratulations (357 words) | The Turbine (383 words) | Big Mac with Fries (389 words) | In Their Own Words: Famous Dutch Philosophers (451 words) | Scalene (456 words) | Page 193-195 of The Norton Anthology of Self-Indulgent White Boy Writers (496 words) | A Perfect Conversation (7 words) | Existential Job (478 words)| John 11:35 (419 words) | Diary of a Mad Man (6 words)

Stories of Greater Than 5000 Words
Sung Lee's (6578 words) | Three Kinds of Love (6082 words) | Waiting for Michelle (5390 words) | Christmas Story (5235 words)

*Starred titles have been removed, and can now be found in Still Life, With Zombie, a short story collection available at Amazon on Kindle and Kindle-enabled devices.