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#SundaySentence: “But a child’s question was the start of all things.” From #Bewilderment by #RichardPowers

#SundaySentence: "Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life." From #AConversationWithMyFather by #GracePaley

Just hit the 100k mark. So this must be…something. #amwriting

#SundaySentence: "Sometimes he wasn’t sure the expression on his face made any sense." From #TreeofSmoke by #DenisJohnson

#SundaySentence: "Through the doorway of a tavern—a couple of sad-drunk infantrymen dancing in the jukebox glow, each alone, chins down, fingers popping, shoulders working, heads bobbing, trudging like carriage horses toward some solitary destiny." #TreeofSmoke by #DenisJohnson

Answer when teenage daughter was asked if someone was her boyfriend: “He’s not not my boyfriend.”

This year’s holiday cocktail: a New York sour (whiskey sour with a pour of red wine).

#JoyWilliams alert!

I was there! Great to hear this after all these years...

Nice to see sara lippmann’s JERKS at my local library

Recent posts from @mdbell79 and Aaron Burch got me going back (once again) to Denis Johnson. “I mean this is not a family to get their coat of arms tattooed on your chest” - I laugh out loud every time I read that line. From “The Starlight on Idaho”

We hope to see you at City Lights Books on May 14 for a celebration of our Issue 127—enticingly redesigned by Justin Carder. Oscar Villalon will emcee; with us will be poet James Cagney & fiction writers Rose Himber Howse and hannah Kingsley-Ma. Admission is free. Join us! citylights.com/events/zyzzyva…

The latest issue of Pithead Chapel includes my story "Nothing Is Enough" - can't wait to read the rest of the stories!

The December issue of Pithead Chapel! I love this one.

Very happy to have a new story, “Wounds,” in the latest issue of MoonPark Review

New story with very long title — thanks Wigleaf

"He'd been living in the building for several months at this point after breaking in one night and finding it empty, unused, unfulfilled..." --Andrew Roe on the Wigleaf mainpage: wigleaf.com

One of the things I love about Wigleaf is that, if they publish your work, you can also write a postcard to accompany your story - here's mine, about the walking path near my house: wigleaf.com/202502ardw.htm