Fiction & Poetry

A murdered refugee named Kinga pulls a Congolese liaison and a Tel Aviv inspector into Sudanese secrets, Russian mob violence, and a cold trail that leads to the Dead Sea.

An imagined tableau of the great actor's offspring. "I am the most illegitimate child of Peter Lorre."

Even the way I virtue signal virtue signals.

He meets a painter.

Fiction set in Afghanistan.

A story that explains how Ahab became Ahab.

Fiction. "Truly now was he captured by his journey. He breathes. It is not the same breath. It is lighter. More faint. Quieter. It is not his."

This story explains why Grigori Perelman disappeared after winning the Clay Prize for solving the Poincare Conjecture.

Mekhi Bessel was maybe the top indie promoter in all of Greater Boston.  He could get anyone to come to anything. 

On remembering my mom.

When Hephaestus met Henry Ford...

There are still spots on the carpet where you dripped blood...

This story imagines Hestia, the ancient Greek divinity of the hearth (and the original ‘domestic goddess’), walking the earth today as Nigella Lawson. She vitriolically hates Martha Stewart.

Beneath the peaceful exterior of the leafy town of Tall Tree, the brutal baby gangster underworld is simmering to a hard boil.  Squeezy the Cheeks, undisputed leader of the long ruling North Wood crew, is facing the toughest challenge of his career: his archnemesis Harry the Rash, who rules the Poopypants Gang with an iron rattle, is making a play for Squeezy’s territory.

Here is a summary of Allotrope without giving the ending away: The novella opens with Sleeping Bear, the driver, and Yitzhak and Arielle, the passengers, in the Inuit’s Chevy Tahoe on their way to an old, deserted mining camp in traditional land two hundred and fifty miles east of Nome.

Hermes, the messenger god, lives in Menlo Park and works at Facebook.  Obvi.

Oh, carbon Chrysler bromide!
Thank G-d for your offgas
Polyvinyl chloride
Desorption.