Creeper is back again. He’s in the studio behind her. Alex can feel his presence even before he opens his mouth to speak. His presence is singular, unique, different from the men in the carpenters union that rent space in the building. He brings a coldness to the room, discomfort, and has since the first […]
Maria is one of my oldest stories. It’s one that taught me a good lesson in submitting, mainly about submitting and revision. I wrote this story in the spring of 2009. Submissions were about to close for most magazines, and I shot it off to AGNI on a lark. I’d been reading a biography of […]
All too often, sex writing is bad writing. There are, of course, various theories about why this is. On a recent New Yorker fiction podcast, Michael Cunningham mentioned that he thought it was because desires are so different. What’s sexy to me, isn’t necessarily sexy to you. To an extent, I agree. But I have […]