Contents of Short Fiction, Essays and Poetry, May 2011

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
e^iπ + 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