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SHORT STORIES: (1)Why? "Dad, why is the sky blue? Why does the rain come in drops and not in bucketfulls?"___pub
in Kelsey Review 2000. (2)Lawless Valley:"After church we piled into our '37 Ford and set out for home and Sunday dinner."
(3) The Secret Hoard: "Most people keep their savings in the bank. Mother hid her money in a cigar box, under my mattress."___pub
in Kelsey Review 1999 (4) Heartache:"Mary, Mother of God, what possessed you to come out in day like this?" (5)
The Holy Fool:"In the thirties most of the men in our Pennsylvania mining patch were unemployed." (6)Prospect House:"A
single railway car moved slowly into a decrepit old railway station." (7) Marlene's Farewell:"A woman, thirtyish, black
hair teased into a bouffant style, strode briskly down the corridor, her high heels making a stacatto echo from the walls."
(8) A Walk on the West Side: "It's so exciting! Here I am in New York with uncle Jack and aunt Miriam." (9) Dumbbells:
"Hi there, Al old buddy!" pub in Kelsey Review 1997 (10) Creative Writing Class: "Six o'clock in the evening; I lay supine
on the couch reading the New Yorker." (11) An Irish Lover: "The call must have come about seven ..."(12) The Bad
Samaritans: "Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention." (13) A Husband, a Junkyard, the Salvation Army, eBay,
the Opera, and Burger King: "My husband would make Silas Marner cringe." Pub in the Kelsey Review 2001 (14) cradletograve.com:
"A warm welcome to all of you wonderful, valued employees of cradletograve dot com, the internet company designed to service
your every need, from the time you were just a twinkle in your father's eye to your last days and beyond." Pub in US1 summer
fiction issue 2001. (15) The Great Cricket Massacre (in preparation) "When the last snow of winter had disappeared into
brooks coursing down the mountainside...." (16) My Fabulous Career", pub in US1, July 24, 2002. "The sun shone, the robins
sang, the buds erupted."; (17) Reunion: Where Memories clash by Night (in preparation) "Every year, when the summer shadows
lengthen and the chorus of cicadas reaches a crescendo, I think of my childhood in the Pennsylvania coal fields, where the
cicadas were so numerous they muffled the roar of the coal trucks." POEMS: (1)The Daytrader___ pub in US1 Summer
Fiction Issue 2000. (2)In Dublin's Fair City. (3)Egypt 2000: I Remember; (4)Thoughts while Sitting under a
Giant Spider in the Turbine Hall of the New Tate Modern. (5) The Towers of the Self (6) Fireflies (7) On the
Road to Baghdad
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