Photo: Live reading at Skylight Books, Hollywood.

My stories and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in dozens of publications. Here are a few samples.

​BOOK REVIEWS & ESSAYS

• Documenting the Fantastic: Review of Ben Loory's Tales of Falling and Flying (Los Angeles Review of Books).
• The Radicals Are Closer Than We Think: Review of Ryan McIlvain's Radicals (Los Angeles Review of Books).
• The Shelf Life of Happiness: Review of Virginia Pye's new short story collection (Heavy Feather Review).
• The New World: When I was seven, I flew to Japan with my mother to attend her father's funeral. This short essay recalls the first night (Atticus Review).
• God and Cheeseburgers: Essay on belief and parenting (Role Reboot).

​​SHORT STORIES

• Sunburn: A young physicist has an epiphany on the morning of the atomic bomb test at Los Alamos (Press 53). First Prize, Prime Number Magazine.
• Malta: An isolated animal activist journeys to the island of Malta where the moral lines he has lived by begin to blur (Oyster River Pages).
• On a Spring Day in Bly, Oregon: A story about the absurdity of war (So It Goes, Vol. 8, the Literary Magazine of the Kurt Vonnegut Library, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Slaughterhouse-Five). Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.​
• Dome Light: A man in a car accident, slipping in and out of consciousness, confronts the monsters from his past—and his imagination (Parhelion).
• Angels: A Jewish boy struggles with God's silence during WWII (Spelk Fiction). Nominated for a Best of Net Award.
• Visualization: Short story about reaching the end and visualizing a way to let go (Anastamos).
• ​Theories of Simultaneous Love and Loss: A widower, struggling to write through his grief, gets tangled in quantum reality (Press 53). Finalist, Prime Number Magazine.
• Hombres: In a border town, two childhood friends have a last, unexpected adventure before leaving for college. (Mojave River Press, page 156).
• ​The Commuter's Dream: When his child is born, an advertising man reexamines the trajectory of his life (Border Crossing). Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
• Y2K: An elementary school girl realizes a school shooting is about to happen on the day she is acting as hall monitor (Flashback Fiction).
• The Boy Who Grew Up Too Fast: A fairy tale written in 60 tweets for Twitter Story Hour (Children Story Time).

SCREENPLAYS

• A Place by the Fire: Short script about two homeless men who steal a time machine and go in search of a better era (Exposition Review).
• The League: In this short script, Little League kids philosophize as parents argue over the game using kung fu and baseball bats (Riggwelter, page 48).

AUDIO & APP SCRIPTS

• Your Meaningful Life is as Close as You Think
• It’s Wonderful! Y. E. Yang at the 2009 PGA Championship
• What We Believe About Happiness Is Stopping Us from Being Happy
• Arnold Palmer’s Go For Broke Doctrine
• Patron Saint of the Practice Range
• Humanizing Your Reptilian Brain
• The Miracle at Merion, or Ben Hogan Returns from the Grave