“Creeper” is the perfect example of a story where I pulled the trigger too early and sent it out for consideration before it was ready. I workshopped it and made cuts after workshopping. Then I submitted it a few places, and I thought it was good, but it got rejected, and the rejections came quickly. […]
“The Waiting Room,” which appears in Whiskey Island issue 67, is the last of my second-person nonfiction narratives, for now at least. Most of these narratives focus on neuroses and my working through them, and “The Waiting Room” is no exception—the focus here being hypochondria. I got the idea for this piece while reading an […]
There are times when my imagination gets away from me. These are often uniquely times when my stress levels go up. When I’m so flustered and overwhelmed that anxiety spikes, takes over, takes me places I don’t want to go. Problems at work. Air Travel. Arguments with my wife. The prospect of having children. Any […]
Last week, early in the week, I was having a string of bad days for reasons I can’t pin down. There was, as always, a combination of factors, the drudgery of hauling myself into the office during the post-holiday winter months (January-March is always hard), the segment I was working on in my novel wasn’t going […]