Bend. System. Collapse.

New story up at Short, Fast, and Deadly. Celebrate the end of the flu season. But the cold season's still here. Detox begins now.

a rare type of pomegranate

Got a new story up at Staccato Fiction called "Nobody Likes a Pragmatist." Look at it. Or don't. Anyway, I'm out of Budweisers. And Caroline Doty is hot. By the way, call me Chris from now on. You're not my mother. And if you are, hi mom. God bless Obamacare.

She needed to be, in one moment, destruction and restoration

Double-header: got a review of Wesley Stace's latest novel, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, up at The Brooklyn Rail, and a new story -- The Parents Were Made of Gas -- up at Short, Fast, and Deadly. Have to give a shout to my buddy and fellow future publishing magnate Garrett McDonough because I definitely stole the title from something he wrote. Sorry, Garrett!

Fan Appreciation

a single chimney-brick

pushed its way

out of the mortar

and fell

to stare at

my new kicks