“Tonight Is the Night” is a very early flash fiction piece, written when I was an undergrad. This story is a mix of fact and fiction about the trauma of attempted first PIV intercourse, and it’s named after a great song by a great songwriter, the late Betty Wright.

“Kill” is another prose experiment from graduate school. This depicts painfully true events from junior high school, the place that The Simpsons creator Matt Groening rightfully calls “the deepest pit in hell.”

“A Perfect Gentleman” is another one of the experimental flash prose pieces I wrote in graduate school. It’s based on my frequent personal experience with opening doors for men and how they react to it.

“The Finicky Eater” is one of a handful of experimental flash prose pieces I wrote in graduate school. I’ll be posting others over the coming weeks.

This is the first story I wrote for my first unpublished manuscript, a collection of interrelated stories called The Tabitha Times.
”Playing House” is also part of that manuscript.

A new addition to my website is an old poem I wrote probably the day after Michael Jackson’s death. The Twin Cities Pride Festival was that weekend, and I read this poem during my appearance at the Power to the People Stage, a performance space at the festival created by and for BIPOC queer people.

Here’s a picture of a dragonfly in my yard. I love dragonflies.

The Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale will be over on August 1, so that gives you three days to get a free ebook copy of Secret Insurrection: Stories from a Novel of a Future Time.