Tag: short story

This might be a fragment, or it might be a little horror story; sometimes I run across something in my archives and wonder who wrote it, and then I encounter a turn…

“I’ve a bone to pick with you,” he says in a deep, sonorous voice that carries just the faintest trace of a Glaswegian accent. As soon as he speaks, I know who…

There was a website once where people would publish letters never sent. Most were what you’d expect, to a dead parent or unrequited love or estranged sibling. My contribution was to a…

I am an enthusiastic but untalented fiddle player, despite the incredibly patient tutelage of my teacher. I can spend many happy hours with O’Neill’s Music of Ireland, just randomly picking out jigs…

This is my biggest publishing coup to date: “The Oologist’s Cabinet” was picked up by Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, the journal/zine/weird tales publication put out by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link that…

This story was picked up by Failbetter in 2004; they’re apparently still around, though they’ve gone through some iterations. It was inspired by an article about people superimposing maps of Dublin over…

I’m an Americanist with an Irish soul — I swing between the Faulkner and Hemingway poles, though obviously I have a great affinity for Kerouac and the Beats (I did a big…

This was picked up by Pindeldyboz in 2005; their website still exists, but hasn’t been updated since 2010. Remember when there were whimsically-named webzines that published weird little stories? This was long-listed…

Man, this is a morose little sketch. But I kind of like it. This got picked up in “Duck and Herring,” an odd little print journal, in 2005. Now if you google…

Pieces Published in Small Spiral Notebook in 2004, I think this is my favorite published story. But don’t let that sway your opinion. For the record, while I did once break my…