Online Writing

Here's some of my stuff available online:

One of These Things is Not Like the Other is my latest novel. I also have a blog about the book, and you can order a copy from Amazon.

This archived publisher's site has excerpts from my first novel, Execution, Texas: 1987.

"Pedestal" and "Catafalque" bookend my forthcoming short-story collection, but you can read them at Lodestar Quarterly without the filling.

Identity Envy is a forthcoming anthology, edited by Jim Tushinski and Jim Van Buskirk, which will contain my piece EuroTex.

This past year I interviewed Jennifer Natalya Fink, old friend and author of the novel Burn.

I've had two stories at Blithe House Quarterly, the queerlit site run by Aldo Alvarez: "Gas Works Park," is about one of my favorite places in Seattle, musicals, spontaneously occurring language, grief and other fun stuff. "Falcons" is also set in Seattle. It's another one of my pieces about a messed-up family.

"Parchment" is an experimental, interactive short story with original visuals.

I'm not really a huge fan of musicals, but I seem to write about them a lot, as in this review of the stage production of Footloose.

"Into Gothic Air" was my jab at Into Thin Air and all that mountain-climbing machismo bullshit. I climbed a literary mountain instead: reading every novel written by the Brönte sisters, for which Salon titled me "Sick Fuck of the Week."

I presented "Viral E-lectioneering," a paper on anti-Bush emails, at a conference in Bilbao, Spain.

Here's an earlier attempt at academic writing. I try using big words and everything, but of course my subject matter ends up being goofy mid-90s disco music. Reactions to Near-Simultaneous Dance Versions of Alternative Rock appeared in Women & Performance, a feminist theory journal out of NYU.

Here's a review I did of Canadian Writer Bert Archer's wonderful book, The End of Gay (and the Death of Heterosexuality).

I've been a big Marc Almond fan forever, and was actually set up to interview him when he came to Seattle, but it fell through at the last minute. Here's the article I did instead.

Soil was a brief-lived (3 issues?) queer art-lit-culture glossy in the mid-90s. The web pages still live, where you can find a performance piece I wrote about Texas called "Nation Under my Fingernails."

I've also published a lot of, ahem, smut. Award-winning smut, even! "Aegis" is probably the most popular smut I've written. Alyson has this edited version online to publicize Simon Sheppard's Rough Stuff anthology. I love their intro to the story!