[Click here] to listen. The Atlantic coastline has become the new Wild West, or at least that’s what the bizarre marketing campaigns launched against the non-native lionfish would lead us to believe. Lionfish have become such a threat to the ecosystems and …
Click [Here] to listen to the audio of this segment at KMUW.org October 31st is a day inextricably tied to the paranormal, to haunted houses and the ghostly costume parties of Halloween. But the 31st also marks the anniversary of …
I took this picture a few weeks ago at the Kansas State Fair. In a room filled with award-winning scarecrows, flower pots, arrangements of vegetables on card tables, ears of corn, and jars of wheat, this refrigerated case displayed two …
Click here to listen to the original “Cinemagraph” Into It segment. The term “cinemagraph” was coined earlier this year by photographers Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg to describe what are essentially more artful versions of the common animated .gif. The file …
I’m starting to think I’m an amateur oceanographer trapped in a landlocked state. This week I talk about submarines. Listen to it [Here]. The development of the submarine took hundreds of years of trial and error across the globe. In 1620, the first …
Jacques Cousteau drew attention to blue holes, or submerged caves, when he sailed his research ship Calypso into Belize to chart the depth of the “Great Blue Hole.” Surprisingly, blue holes have garnered little attention aside from tourism until recent years. …
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I’m thrilled to say that my story “The Empire Builder” was awarded second-place in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers! Glimmer Train publishes some of the best short stories out there—pick up any copy and you’ll find stories …
This week I did an Into It segment about party lines, which you can hear online at KMUW. Party lines, which connected a string of phones with one open line that any user could patch into at any given moment, were a …
My story “Jumper” is currently featured on NANO Fiction’s webpage! You can read it HERE. “Jumper” is one of two stories of mine— the other being “The Search”— that the lovely people of NANO published in Volume 4.2 this spring. This literary …
