FICTION

The writing here is all, as the title suggests, fiction. Names, dates, events, all of it is about something other than the literal reporting of facts. Mostly it is about my own issues.

Flags The Museum of Poetic Intention
A fragmentary collection of moments, gestures, symbols. It’s about the unknown histories of images and objects.

Transporter Transporter
A one-act play based on a thought experiment called the transporter problem. Yes, Star Trek did have an episode on a similar theme, but this is nothing like that. This is satire.

Quixote Don Quixote San Diego
A short short story about not living up to one’s intentions. Published in Witness.

Dogs Blue Collar Dogs
A story about gentrification, published in The Laurel Review and nominated for a Pushcart prize. In school my instructors were always talking about the importance of “epiphanies.” I later became somewhat obsessed with the idea of false epiphanies.

Happy You
A very short love story. He’s older, she’s younger. Never the twain shall meet.

Editing Flatland
This is another story from my period of self-deluded narrators. At the time, I guess, I worried about my own delusions. I accept them now as an unavoidable part of life.