Bagwhores is a collaboration between me and a meth addict named Floyd. I met him at the Coffee Bean on Sunset and Fairfax. He wrote poetry but couldn’t find a way to link his thoughts. So he stole $200 from the newspaper stand where he worked for a week and hired me to help turn his…

Exhale was originally published in The Fictioneer.   1736 Kelton Avenue is not on any registry of haunted places. There are no neighborhood stories of ghastly murders, and it has never been featured on “Ghost Hunters.” It is a standard apartment building, rectangular, cream-colored, 150 units with balcony, elevator, and underground parking. Looking up at…

My short short story, “The Butterfly Moth,” was recently published in Five 2 One Magazine. You can read it and listen to me perform the story here. A big thank you to Justin Baker for voicing the Moth.

“Aquamarine” was originally published in the December 2013 issue of the literary journal, The Fictioneer. The girl hesitated in front of the restaurant’s patterned glass doors. She removed her engagement ring with a twist and dropped the heart-shaped cubic zirconia into her purse. She closed her eyes, filling in the black with an image of her…