I had a hugely productive spring. I wrote two full 300 page books. The first is a collection of short fiction, flash fiction, micro fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry consisting of 110 peices. Most is flash (about 60). Most of the rest are creative non-fiction (essays). Here’s the table of contents and the chart of progress. I will detail the second book in another post.
| Table of Contents | |
| Short Stories | |
| War Games | 3 |
| The Great Symphony | 19 |
| Liver and Onions | 29 |
| The Thief | 31 |
| Getting Into Pants | 33 |
| Flash Fiction | |
| Robert Frost Helps Me Talk to My Father | 37 |
| The Anthropic Principle | 39 |
| Flushing Pheasants | 41 |
| Sigmund Freud on My Relationship | 43 |
| Inside Out | 45 |
| Queue | 47 |
| Johnny K | 51 |
| First Holy Communion | 53 |
| Lake Marie | 55 |
| ei? + 1 = 0 (An Identity) | 57 |
| Double Word Score | 59 |
| Diving | 61 |
| Chiaroscuro | 63 |
| Hardwood | 65 |
| Jason Makes a Call | 67 |
| For Her | 69 |
| Omnistrain | 73 |
| Picking up Girls at the Bar | 75 |
| Mr. Jones’ Accounts | 77 |
| The Parallel Postulate | 79 |
| Bumper Cars | 81 |
| Ham and Swiss on Rye | 83 |
| How I Learned to Like Guacamole | 85 |
| The Point Beyond Which There is No Return | 87 |
| The Mathematics of Titties | 89 |
| Charlie’s in Trouble | 91 |
| Drive Thru | 93 |
| Fireworks | 95 |
| Stuffed Chicken | 97 |
| Lying | 99 |
| The Normal Curve for Normal | 101 |
| My Prayer | 103 |
| Story Table | 105 |
| My Stuff in a Box | 107 |
| Bobby Daddy | 109 |
| Being in Love | 111 |
| Jumpy Juice | 113 |
| New Tom | 115 |
| Telling Her | 117 |
| The Peacock Room | 119 |
| So Much Promise | 121 |
| The Decision | 123 |
| The Robbery | 125 |
| The Insight | 127 |
| God Makes a Mistake | 129 |
| You’re Welcome Day | 131 |
| Dinner with James | 133 |
| Baba | 135 |
| Medieval Torture Room | 137 |
| Welcoming a Guest | 139 |
| Edgar, Richard and Miss M. | 141 |
| The Good King Goes Up | 143 |
| Speaking French to a Taxi Driver | 145 |
| Nothing Ever Happened | 147 |
| Doors | 149 |
| Mirror Image | 151 |
| My Net Diary | 153 |
| Micro Fiction | |
| The Doppler Effect | 157 |
| Gimme a Yacto-second | 159 |
| Q & A | 161 |
| Writing | 163 |
| Prince Charming | 165 |
| The Sunday Smell of Frying Chicken | 167 |
| Cow Crap | 169 |
| Essays | |
| 30 Steps to Surviving the Death of Your Brother | 173 |
| Penis Butter and Jit Jelly | 179 |
| Rules for Pennies | 181 |
| Shaman | 183 |
| The Anniversary | 185 |
| The Backwoodsman | 187 |
| You | 189 |
| If [I | You] Had Never Met [You | Me] | 191 |
| Pi | 193 |
| Snow Hole | 195 |
| My Boss Washes His Hands | 197 |
| Torturing Katie | 203 |
| Second Chances | 205 |
| The Laws of Inheritance | 207 |
| The Trouble with Freedom | 209 |
| Under Protective Cover | 211 |
| Going Green | 213 |
| War 101 | 215 |
| Yesterday and Tomorrow | 217 |
| Twenty Things | 221 |
| An Interview with the Poet | 223 |
| Numark Turntable | 225 |
| Poetry | |
| The Present | 229 |
| You | 231 |
| Fibonacci Poem | 233 |
| My Reading Spot | 235 |
| Song To Myself | 237 |
| Poem for Daddy | 239 |
| Screw You, Reader | 241 |
| I Am God and Shit | 243 |
| Other Writing / Blog Posts | |
| What Was Raymond Carver Talking About? | 247 |
| Nancy Clearwater Herman, Artist and Blogger | 247 |
| Bend the Light | 249 |
| Make Mercury Wobble | 251 |
| Tricks of the Trade | 253 |