oh so many words

I write. Write write write. For personal and professional reasons. Short stories, novels, poems, essays, articles, etc. - I like it all. In my non-fiction work, I tend to cover topics to do with arts and culture, recreation (biking and travel specifically), politics, and the environment. But everything's fair game. And as for fiction? See below....

Short Stories Online:
* "Pistol In the Mud" -Friendship, old guns and a dark secret. 3rd place winner, Madison Magazine's short fiction contest ('07).
* "Shelter" - A cold night in Chicago for two homeless men. First-place winner, Black Rock & Sage's Three Genres Fiction Contest.
* "Between Two Points" - Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
* "Back Across the Desert" - A woman picks up a hitchhiker for a jaunt across a stretch of desert between two cities.

Hey Look, A Novel:
"The Fix Up" - My first (self) published novel.

Poetry:
"The Killer of Frogs" - published in Free Verse (issue #95)
"For Stanley Kunitz Who I Never Knew"
"too, I have some truths"
"For the next time I can't speak"
"Shoplifting At the Generation Gap"
"Dynamic Tension"
"She Imagines Sex Is Like New Zealand"
"Autumn in the Columbarium"
"Sharing a bed"