Recent & Not So

NEW STORIES forthcoming:

"Catch and Release" in Saw Palm magazine
"Links" in The Hopkins Review


A NEW STORY COLLECTION, my sixth, Who Will Hear Your Secrets?, will be published in March of 2012 by the Johns Hopkins University Press. (See sidebar)

Several short stories from that book are currently in these magazines:

"Quarters" in Aethlon.
"The Dark" is in the summer 2011 issue of The Hopkins Review.
A long story, "Crooked", is in the Spring 2011 number of the Santa Monica Review.
A short piece entitled "Wedding Day" appeared recently in The Literarian
(centerforfiction.org/​magazine/​)

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A Japanese-language edition of The Victim's Daughter (1991) is now available from Tokyo publisher Sakuhin-sha. The cover (see at right) is stunning, with eerily realistic blood drops.

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A short story, "Period Piece", appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of The Hopkins Review.
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"The Mall" is a 25-word (extremely short) included in the recently-published anthology Hint Fiction (Norton 2010), edited by Robert Swartwood. I include it here (complete):

"What he liked best about the affair was not the shopping, but parting the tissue wrap to remove the clothing that had first enticed her."

Hint Fiction was published in November 2010 by W.W.Norton.
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