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Chapbooks

Quantum Surge in O Central. Short stories. Obscure Publications, 2003.
The Spectral University: A Memoir of the Late Sixties
. Obscure Publications, 2005.

Short Stories

"Nine-foot Women." Facets Vol. II, No. 2 (2002).
"History Lesson." AGNI (2003).
"Surviving Death." Barrelhouse (2005).
"Heslach." Thieves Jargon (April 2005).
"Prose Piece for Martha Stewart." Pindeldyboz (2005).

Prose Poems

"Four Winter Tales." Furniture for the People (2004).
"Legacy," "A Doll's Tale," "The Delusions of Dolls." Double Room No. 5 (Winter/Spring 2005).
"The Doll's Alienation," "Once a Doll Was Exploring Her Intestines," "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls." Ghoti Magazine (2005).
"
Eleven Dolls ." SamizDADA (Mar. 1, 2007).
"The Gentleman Returned," "A Scandal," "How to Make Love to Green Man." The New Yinzer (Summer 2007).

Creative Nonfiction

"The Secret Life of Parents, 1962." Brevity Issue 16 (Fall 2004).
"Bamboo." Cadillac Cicatrix No. 2 (Winter 2008).

Criticism

"The Passion of Mel Gibson." Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 32 No. 3 (2004).
"'This Is About One Thing—Dominion': John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars." Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 30, No. 4 (2002).
Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment. "Bordwell's Chinese Feast." Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 29, No. 3 (2001).
American Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Era. "High Heat in the Cold War." Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 29, No. 4 (2001).
"Run Lola Run." Film Quarterly Vol. 53, No. 3 (Spring 2000).

"'Maybe All Men Got One Big Soul': The Hoax Within the Metaphysics of Terrence `Malick's The Thin Red Line." Literature/Film Quarterly Vol. 27 No. 3 (1999).
"We Are None of Us Much": Stephen Becker's When the War Is Over. Krieg und Literature/War and Literature Vol. II (1996).
"Composition for Robert Walser." Words Without Borders (Spring 2008).