5.17.2008

Wigleaf/Dogzplot

Those of you who check this blog regularly may have noticed that I was pretty much absent for the entire month of February. I was busy teaching and writing for a lot of that month, and when I was online, I kept myself busy by reading stories for Wigleaf's Top 50 (Very) Short Stories of 2007 rather than by posting any blog entries.

If you're not sure what all I'm talking about, here are some links:

Scott's foreward to Wigleaf's Top 50 (Very) Short Stories of 2007


My introduction to the same

Wigleaf's homepage, where you can find a link to the stories


If you can't tell from my intro, I had a blast reading the stories from the long list. The only problem, really, was figuring out how to narrow the number of stories down to fifty. Or, err, fifty-five.

Much thanks to Scott and Wigleaf for asking me to play along.

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And speaking of very short stories...

I have a little thing called "Preparation" up at Dogzplot.

You can read it at the Dogzplot blog or at Dogzplot's MySpace page.

Much thanks to Barry Graham and the cool folks at Dogzplot for having me.

And if you haven't yet done so, you should check out the latest issue of Dogzplot, which contains work by Elizabeth Ellen, Steven J. McDermott, Dawn Corrigan, and Yu-Han Chao, among many excellent others.

5.14.2008

Chris Ware...

doing work with This American Life.

(via)

5.01.2008

Summer of Skin

No, the post's title is not a reference to my impending summer vacation. We're on terms here, which means I still have four-plus weeks to go. With all that's left to do, though, they should pass by pretty quickly.

But back to the post's title: My story "Summer of Skin" appears in the May/June 2008 issue of The Rambler, which is available now. The magazine looks great, and, as always, I'm pretty thrilled about it all.

The story isn't excerpted online or anything, but you can check out the full table of contents here.

Also, the cool artwork that accompanies the story, done by James Gustavson, can be viewed over at his blog. Just click here. I really like how he portrayed the dad in the story. It's pretty much perfect.