My short story, “The Geography of Desire,” was published recently in issue #17 of Juked.
Read More1st Piece Accepted in 2019
So today I got the awesome news that my short story “Geography of Desire” was accepted by Juked.
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Alternate title: "Male Characters in Search of Female Characters who Can Force them to Get out of their Daily Routine and Finally Evolve"
Essay about Murakami's Men Without Women Published in Ploughshares
Men Without Women is a familiar, easily identifiable, and oddly comforting book for the Murakami reader, privileging the emotional landscape of lonely Japanese men through scaffolding characterization, personal idiosyncrasy, and monkey-wrench narratives instead of dramatic Hollywood plot lines, food porn, or cultural didacticism.
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Short Story Published in Arts & Letters
After mom got remarried to a white architect, my twin brother and I moved to Wacker Drive to live in the future. For Yoshi and me, the honeycombed Marina Towers were a time warp to another dimension.
Read More1st Piece Accepted in 2016
I got the good news recently that my flash fiction piece "Living in the Future," which is part of my short story collection Atlas of Tiny American Desires, was accepted in the literary journal Arts & Letters and will be appearing in either the Fall 2016 or Spring 2017 issue. Nothing like a short story acceptance to keep my spirits up.
The Two Sentence Rejection
I almost never take rejections personally because they're a part of my profession, shitty and depressing as that is. And I wasn't offended by this lame rejection either because like I said, that's what I signed up for. But when applicants drop $25 that they submit on submishmash for a book contest in the tiny hope that their collection of short stories will be published, I don't think it's asking a lot for the rejection letter to be:
1. Gracious or sincere in a way that doesn't feel rushed
2. Longer than two sentences
3. Addressed to me.
The long and short is, I'm absolutely not gonna enter this contest again. I could have used that money to take LB out for dinner at The Loving Hut or bought 25 songs or three ebooks on iTunes or ordered new boxer briefs at Hugo Boss.com! Something's gotta give, and it's not gonna be dinner, music, books or underwear, I'll tell you that.
Thank you for entering our Juniper Prize competition. I am sorry that your entry was not chosen. I hope you will enter again in August 2014.
1. Gracious or sincere in a way that doesn't feel rushed
2. Longer than two sentences
3. Addressed to me.
The long and short is, I'm absolutely not gonna enter this contest again. I could have used that money to take LB out for dinner at The Loving Hut or bought 25 songs or three ebooks on iTunes or ordered new boxer briefs at Hugo Boss.com! Something's gotta give, and it's not gonna be dinner, music, books or underwear, I'll tell you that.
Thank you for entering our Juniper Prize competition. I am sorry that your entry was not chosen. I hope you will enter again in August 2014.