Category: Fiction

Writing is in the Moving: It’s Hard to Know a Place by Car

It’s hard to know a place by car. When I travel, I walk a lot, and when possible, I bike. Singapore is tiny. It’s a ...
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The Doge of Flatbush – published in Peatsmoke

The Doge of Flatbush was just published by Peatsmoke, for which I am eternally glad. I do set out to write dense fiction at times, ...

The Distance and the Damage – Published by DarkWinter Literary Magazine and Press

New fiction published by DarkWinter Literary Magazine, a story called ‘The Distance and the Damage’. It’s a short one. It’s a tough one. In 2023, ...
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“You Like?” by Kailash Srinivasan, published by Ex-Puritan: a reflection

I never know what’s going on in the heads of other people, and I often don’t ask: “how do you feel?”, so I plug in ...
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“Snake-Proof”: published in The New Quarterly

A story called “Snake-Proof” was published in Issue 176 of The New Quarterly (TNQ). TNQ is my local Waterloo-based literary magazine. It is a beautiful ...

I Do Whimsy – FreeFall

I just got my hardcopies of Volume 35 Number 2 of FreeFall (Fall 2025). I have two stories in this. ‘Still Me, Still You’, which ...
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Baseball is the One Game that Can Make You Cry

Baseball is the one game that can make you cry. Sports are a funny tradition of on-the-fly stories built up during a game or a ...
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Distinguished Story in ‘The Best American Short Stories 2025’

Excited to have a ‘Distinguished Story’ in The Best American Short Stories anthology for 2025. What’s this mean? The story is not published in the ...
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FreeFall Literary Magazine 2025 Contest Wins

Grateful to have won 3rd place in the FreeFall Literary Magazine Prose contest, and to be winner of the Lynn Fraser Memorial Award. I wanted ...

A Review of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

I’m so busy right now but I make time for reading, so just finished Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. You have to make time ...