Category: Fiction
CBC Short Story Prize Shortlisted Story: Saad Steps Out
I hate heights. They give me that wobbly feeling in my legs. The below story is from 2014 and was shortlisted for the CBC Short ...
Art Class: The Fearsome Tide Turned by One Mr. Hurst
When I was in high school, I hated art. I hated it so much that I refused to take the obligatory art class during the ...
The One Story that Haunts My Year
Do you ever feel like you live in an abstraction? At least you’re living a life. At least you have the chance to do something ...
A Couple of Published Stories (december Magazine and FreeFall Magazine); and an Update
I’ve posted that these have been published, but I don’t know how many people subscribe to these fine literary magazines, so I thought I’d indicate ...
The Best Writing Music – A Secret Stash
Spotify has revised how I find and consume music. Once, it was listening to the radio and writing down song names. Then it was file-sharing. ...
New publications
In case anyone subscribes to December Magazine (https://decembermag.org/product/volume-35-2/), I’ve got a story in the latest edition called ‘Stars’. It’s a quasi-digital gay romance that I ...
Cli-Fi Epics
Azerbaijan sits west of the Caspian Sea. Russia is above it, Iran below. To the west, Armenia. In 2021, Azerbaijani soldiers went into Armenia and ...
Every Great Painting is a Letter in an Alien Alphabet
I’m going to Azerbaijan. It’s a country next to the Caspian Sea, bordered by Iran and Russia. People are going to talk about saving the ...
New Story Published in The Bangalore Review
‘I swim in a shark.’ That’s how this story starts. It began with that one strange line and evolved into a full ...
Freedom on the Trail
I’m sitting by the edge of the Grand River. When you go for really long bike rides, gravity is against you. One water bottle for ...