
Episode 12: American Sister
So here we are — the end of the road. On June 17, 2025, I set out to record a dozen of my short stories for this podcast, and we have arrived at number twelve. As I mention in the intro of this episode, you can watch the

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So here we are — the end of the road. On June 17, 2025, I set out to record a dozen of my short stories for this podcast, and we have arrived at number twelve. As I mention in the intro of this episode, you can watch the

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Unlike Jake, one of the two main characters in this story, I’m incapable of growing a beard. A fu manchu may be possible, but even that is doubtful. Which is actually fine by me. I knew a guy in college who had a five o’

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Remember DVD extras? Or maybe I should ask…remember DVDs? Those shiny discs that looked like CDs? (If you now ask what a CD is, then I’m really in trouble.) Anyway, this is what I consider this episode to be — a DVD extr

Welcome to the third episode of Spoken into the Ether. “Translation” was published in Hyphen, in its Fall 2008 issue. The artwork for this story was created by Chloe Bonfield, who’s done amazing things since! When I firs

Welcome to the second episode of Spoken into the Ether, the podcast disguised as an auditory delivery mechanism for my short stories. “Limits,” published in Carve Magazine, dates back to 2008, but its origins go back eve

Today, my two mystery novels, Skin Deep and Deep Roots, are living their second lives with a new publisher, Datura Books! To celebrate this grand occasion, I’ve decided to put out the first of a dozen of my short stories
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