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HoPE
The following experimental flash fiction piece was originally published in the December 2011 edition of Stupefying Stories. It is reprinted here in its entirety. HabitablePlanetExplorer enteringKepler...
View ArticleVoices from the Corral
On February 15th, 2012, I received an e-mail from Fred Schepartz, the Executive Editor of Mobius Magazine. It was the first submission response I’ve receive that didn’t contain any of these words or...
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Deep Thought is Dead. Long Live Deep Thought.
On Tuesday, March 19th, Alan Jacobs posted a technology article for The Atlantictitled “Jobs of the Future: A Skeptic’s Response.” In the article, he voices his doubts that a skillset promoted by the...
View ArticleWalking the Tightrope
The internet abounds with advice for new writers, with suggestions on everything from avoiding adverbs to the elements of story. For nearly two years, I devoured this kind of advice wherever I found...
View ArticleThe Future of Epidemiology: Next-Gen Sequencing
Over four thousand people infected, nine hundred of them suffering hemolytic-uremic syndrome, a disorder whose first symptoms are vomiting and diarrhea. For fifty individuals, it ended in death. Such...
View ArticleAnti-Obesity Is Not The New Homophobia
Twenty years ago I joined my high school’s football team and over the next four years became intimately acquainted with pasta – the delicious flavor and al dente texture, the margherita and alfredo...
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Shaheen’s Last Stand
“How many times do I have to tell you? I don’t need no-damn nanosurgery!” Retired colonel Joseph Shaheen had begun conjoining “no” and “damn” as a result of repeating heated commands to his grunts...
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Fergus Underbridge Troll Detective
“Everyone will have a favorite story [from Whom The Bell Trolls]. I think mine may be the novella introducing Fergus Underbridge: Troll Detective, a complex troll hero who navigates segregated...
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Platinum Blonde
I knew after I wrote this story that the subject matter could be viewed as controversial, but given the political climate since 9/11, to date I’ve never written a story I felt needed to be published...
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