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February 24, 2018 0 Comments publication

“Year of the Cow” at Passages North

My story “Year of the Cow” appears in the latest issue of Passages North, a magazine from Northern Michigan University that has published since 1979. Big thanks to Jennifer A. Howard, Monica McFawn, and the staff at Passages North for including my …

“Thumb Wars” at Electric Literature

Electric Literature’s 300th issue of Recommended Reading landed on Valentine’s Day, and they decided to celebrate with stories about love and heartbreak. My story “Thumb Wars” was illustrated by Sara Lautman and featured alongside a short by Julia Ridley Smith.

Littlefoot Debut Album

Pleased to announce the release of the debut ablum from littlefoot! I recorded these 12 electronic instrumental tracks last year, and now they’re available for streaming & download. I hope you’ll listen, enjoy, and share!

“Building a Best Sellers List” Featured @ Free Code Camp

I went through the Free Code Camp curriculum back in 2016 to earn a front-end certificate. It’s a great organization, and I’m thrilled to have published an article about combining APIs on the Medium publication for Free Code Camp.

MIDI & Socket.io Project @ Hacker Noon

I wrote a tutorial about the process of making a collaborative MIDI app. Read along over on the Medium publication Hacker Noon.

Indiana Review #IRFictionPrize

The Indiana Review offered up an #IRFictionPrize twitter contest, asking writers to provide a title for this short: “You were stranded on a desert island with a copy of IR and a newborn piglet. You did the only thing you could do to survive.” They picked my …

McSweeney’s – “Comments from the Carpenters’ Fall Workshop”

This week McSweeney’s Internet Tendency published a list I wrote called, “Comments from the Carpenters’ Fall Workshop.” “That Murphy bed! Wonderful surprise!”

Q&A with Bret Anthony Johnston

This summer I had the chance to read Bret Anthony Johnston’s fantastic new novel Remember Me Like This. He was kind enough to answer my questions about it and share a bizarre experience at a clown convention in Houston that prompted his story “Paradeability,” …

March Magazine Madness

The NCAA bracket swapped out with each university’s literary journal. Because why not. Find it at HTMLGIANT.

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November 30, 2013 0 Comments Top Bar

Kevin Wilson & the American Short Fiction Podcast

I’ve been hooked on Kevin Wilson’s stories since I got a hold of Tunneling to the Center of the Earth a few years ago. They’re always humorous without feeling light, managing to find strange and exciting ways towards emotion. I’ve had the …

Interview with Monica McFawn– new fiction & sassy horse chat

Monica’s fantastic story “Ornament and Crime” is up with American Short Fiction this month. I asked her a few questions and received the gems below. For more, go read the interview: I used to think that this was sad—it must be terrible …

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August 3, 2013 0 Comments Into It

What happened when the Olympics gave out medals for drawing, music, and literature?

A lot has changed for the Olympics over the last century, mostly due to a shift away from amateur competitors to professional athletes. But entire disciplines have been tossed aside, too. The Olympics from 1912 to 1952 weren’t just about sports, but art. …

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June 10, 2013 0 Comments Into It

Tristan da Cunha: the Remotest Island in the World

From the nearest port in South Africa, it takes six days on a fishing boat to reach the small island of Tristan da Cunha. Fifteen hundred miles out into the South Atlantic, simple white homes with bright colored roofs sit in rows …

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May 22, 2013 0 Comments Into It

The Resurgence of Records

It seems like every new technology tries its best to kill off the vinyl record. Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in. Metal stamp plates continue using thousands of pounds …

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April 23, 2013 0 Comments Into It

Escalators, the Pedestrian Joyride

From Joyride to Daily Life The idea of the escalator has been around a lot longer than a working model. Nathan Ames first patented “Revolving Stairs” in 1859, though he didn’t specify materials or have a practical use in mind. Even 30 years later …

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April 1, 2013 3 Comments Into It

The Worst of Super Nintendo

The Worst of SNES The 16-bit gaming boom took over the early nineties. It gave us classics like Super Mario World, but it also emboldened marketers to dream up spin-offs. In these crossovers, the best parts about pop stars, TV shows, and …

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March 13, 2013 0 Comments Into It

The Strange Life of Discontinued Breakfast Cereal

The cereal aisle is run by kids. It’s their purchasing power that brings TV shows, movies, and even stranger products together with the barons of breakfast.  Mr. T cereal debuted in 1984 and was essentially T-shaped captain crunch. But it got a little …

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February 27, 2013 0 Comments Into It

The Island of California

California’s San Andreas fault is slowly shifting LA away from the mainland. But we don’t have to look to the future to imagine a disjointed coastline. Instead we can look to the past, to the maps of the 17th and 18th centuries …

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February 13, 2013 0 Comments Into It

Henry Ford’s Brazilian Ghost Town

Fordlândia // Henry Ford’s Brazilian Ghost Town from agbales on Vimeo. If there’s a pilgrimage for the industrialized world, it probably ends in the Amazon Rainforest, at the center of a abandoned town called Fordlândia. By 1928, Henry Ford had just completed …

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February 8, 2013 0 Comments Into It

The Odyssey, Only This Time With Rubber Duckies

Listen at KMUW.org Back in the seventies, Sesame Street’s Ernie sang to us about his favorite bath time buddy. But the rubber ducky has seen adventures far beyond the tub. In 1992, three cargo containers leaving Hong Kong spilled into the Pacific …

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