Published: Short Stories: Later-life Relationships (PopMatters)
This month, we look at intimate relationships that happen later in life — older women finding love in unexpected and interesting ways. These stories avoid the usual stereotypes/tropes to show all t...
6 Years Ago
Published: Short Stories: Journeys (PopMatters)
This month, my short stories column at PopMatters is all about the journey — by train, bus, airplane, car, even foot. And how, in that state of being neither here nor there, just about anything can...
6 Years Ago
Published: Book Review of ‘Waiting’ by Nighat Gandhi (Scroll.in)
In her second short story collection, Waiting, Nighat Gandhi explores many of the same preoccupations that have dominated both her fiction and non-fiction thus far but with even more minute and int…...
6 Years Ago
Marginalia: The Ten Phases of Writing a Short Story
Having written and published 20 short stories since 2016, I can say, with absolute conviction, that there is no single, universal process to how a short story comes together. […] So, while I…...
6 Years Ago
Published: Speculation and Responsibility in ‘A People’s Future of the United States’ (PopMatters)
If you’re wondering how the future could get worse because of the current US administration, the 25 speculative works in this new anthology provide some plausible scenarios....
6 Years Ago
Published: Short Stories: Animals Part II (PopMatters)
This month’s short story column continues from last month with more stories about animals. Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Sarah Hall, Robert Olen Butler, Beth Goder, and Jackie Kay explore the human…...
6 Years Ago