“Paper Lanterns”  (essay, published in Word Riot) My father lives in the middle of a cemetery. Large trees and civil-war era gravestones in all directions. A two-lane road curves through the grounds and past his front door. “I guess it’s weird,” he says, “but at least you know a McDonald’s is never gonna pop up…

“Ferdinand Fell” was named a semi-finalist in the Big Moose Prize for fiction from Black Lawrence Press. It’s a surreal mystery set in Los Angeles, 1986. I’m currently submitting it to publishers and agents. This is the first page: —– A blanket of clouds slipped over the city, dimming the light as if a play…

As the 2015 Artist in Residence at KBOO Radio, I wrote and directed “The Pool,” a 30-minute radio play set in The Crystal Plunge, a public swimming pool in San Francisco that was demolished in 1958. For the setting of this play, which begins at 7:57 PM on a February night in 1983, I pretended…