My short story "The 12-Step Program for Yuki Hiramoto," which is part of my second collection, Atlas of Tiny American Desires, was published this week in the Santa Monica Review.   This literary journal has always been one of my faves in the whole country (and has been for many years now).  I remember as a MFA student flipping through copies of the SMR in the creative writing office and thinking how someday I'd love to publish one of my short stories in it.  Now, I can scratch that off my list of things to do.  Baby steps, bro.