Fiction

admin — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:49:38 +0000

If I’m not standing onstage or sitting in a movie theater, I’m probably somewhere writing, probably fiction, probably horror or hardboiled crime. I’ve been fortunate to publish stories in some great journals and anthologies over the years. You can read (and listen to!) a bunch of them for free.

Necessary Cuts (The Drabblecast)

Notes From the Assistant’s Intern (The Drabblecast)

The Shade-Tree Mechanic (The Bombay Literary Magazine)

Then the Monster, Lucky Me (Intrinsick)

Heart Skull Heart (in the anthology Shadowy Natures)

Quarry (in the anthology The Monsters We Forgot)

Castrati (Dream of Shadows)

Excerpts From Notes On the Bag Game (Archive Of the Odd)

The Painted Nightmare (in the anthology F Is For Fear)

Special Screening, One Night Only (in the anthology D Is For Demons)

The Unquiet Planet (Penumbric)

The Soldiers Of Fate (Crimson Streets)

Share Now (Hellfire Crossroads)

Babycakes (in the anthology Madam Grue’s Book of Gore)

Travel Bag (Shallow Waters)

The Recidivist (Tell-Tale Press)

Amoursel (Infernal Ink)

Non-Fiction

admin — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 21:26:18 +0000

My first professional work, for many years, was in journalism. I was the film critic for the alt-weekly Nightlife for well over a decade, the editor of The Carbondale Times for a few years, and a contributor to City Pages for another decade. Most of what I wrote for those first 20 years has vanished into the Internet, debatably for better or worse, but I still have plenty of non-fiction floating around the virtual newsstand. I write a lot about movies and books, but also about sports, opera, and whatever interests me in the moment. Below is a very non-comprehensive list of my non-fiction work, the vast majority of which is available to read for free.

John Dillinger Keeps Dying At Chicago’s Biograph Theater (Bright Wall/Dark Room)

Ask Dad, He Knows: It’s A Wonderful Life’s Legacy of Failure and Fatherhood (Bright Wall/Dark Room)

Why is the opera singer who partly inspired a character in Citizen Kane buried in a Minneapolis cemetery? (Star Tribune)

The Things He’s Carried (Minnesota Monthly)

Goodbye, Poor White Trash: Hollywood Heck In A Small Town (In the Mood)

Minnesota’s Drive-In Theaters Are Hanging On (Minnesota Monthly)

To Fool Or Not to (April) Fool? (Minnesota Monthly)

The Guilt Of the Magi (Minnesota Monthly)

Stephen King’s ‘The Shining’ As An Opera (Bloody Disgusting)

The Minnesota Vikings’ Stars Defined Themselves By Their Turkey-Eating Styles (Zone Coverage)

Bryan Miller Comedy

Fiction

Non-Fiction