Twenty Thousand Roads

It's finally real.  I Have Already Been Here Before  is published and available for order here . Obviously, I'm ecstatic to have it out in the world. But there's also something terrifying about the finality of it; these stories represent the bulk of my creative output for the past fifteen years. I've been tinkering with some of them off and on for much of my adult life. At the risk of being dramatic, the things I poured into those stories — both the stuff I was digging out of my psyche to write about and the effort and optimism it takes to work on any creative endeavor — kept me from losing my shit. And now they're gone. Or at least gone away from me to a place where they're free from my ongoing murder of all their little darlings. So what now? What now, when the future of my writing life, that part of me that meets the day every morning before dawn when the house is quiet and my dreams or nightmares are still fading into the fuzz of waking? That's

I've always wanted say I had something about to drop. That probably means people don't really say that anymore, but I'm going to say it anyway. I Have Always Been Here Before , a (very) loosely linked collection of short stories, will be available from  Cowboy Jamboree Press  within a week or so. These stories represent the bulk of the writing I've worked on over the past decade, so it's exciting, not to mention oddly terrifying, to have them collected in one place and out in the world. Here's a sneak peak at one of the stories, "The Big Scary Woods," originally published several years back by Moon City Review . It's a dark comedy about a failing marriage besieged by a pack of raccoons. I had a lot of fun recording this two-part audio version of the story. The links: "The Big Scary Woods" part 1 "The Big, Scary Woods" part 2 And here's another, an excerpt of the title story, originally published in Bull