SFSU ScholarWorks • 23rd October 2025

"Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" at CSU ScholarWorks

My 1998 MFA thesis at SF State, the university's first electronic thesis, was originally published on floppy disks and is now linked to a downloadable modern web version of my novel "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid."

The Fictitious Press • 5th August 2025

STEP AWAY FROM THE PIZZA: Fictions, etc.

"The author's mastery of language and willingness to push boundaries make 'Step Away from the Pizza' a compelling read for those who appreciate inventive storytelling and literary risk-taking" (Carol Thompson, Readers' Favorite).

Delphinium Literary Magazine • 10th May 2025

"Transient Encounter of Chilean Miners, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Girl Scouts from Boulder"

"Just months after their miraculous rescue, 25 of the 33 survivors of the 2010 Copiapó, Chile, mining accident find themselves touring Israel and meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. . . . A dozen Northern Colorado Region 7 Girl Scouts, on a swing through the Middle East, giggle, squirm, and sip lemonade on the periphery."

Delphinium Literary Magazine • 10th May 2025

"Unlikely Convergence of Danish Animal Rights Activists, Rigoberta Menchú, and Multi-Level Marketers"

"Five North American Mallard ducks, four hens and one drake, descend red-carpeted steps from the ornate fountain in the central Atrium Lobby of the The Peabody Orlando. Hotel guests applaud, tourists take photos and videos . . . ."

Medium • 16th January 2025

ECLECTIFICTION – Medium

"A growing collection of sometimes eclectic short fiction and experimental poetry" I'm sharing on the Medium platform from my previously published work. Because Medium has limited its free access, most of my pieces are now behind the paywall.

Cimarron Review • 21st December 2024

"Velcro World"

"Rotating the jobs at Velcro World is part of Team Building, which creates Trust. Trust is one of our recently-installed Core Values . . . " In this near-future fiction, a private-equity takeover of a Velcro-themed roadside attraction creates a firestorm for employees and management.

Cover art by Serge Lecomte

Poor Yorick Journal • 19th April 2024

"Step Away from the Pizza"

The dads with a traveling girls softball team engage in a cross-cultural confrontation over a pizza delivery. My story begins on page 44 of the journal: "It was half past nine in the evening and the girls were famished and giddy as we waited . . . ."

voidspace _ • 15th October 2023

"The Winograd Matrix"

"The Winograd Matrix" is a Twine fiction in the form of a choice-based game about a couple confined together in a dystopian world of plagues and roving gangs. It appeared originally in KAIROS, republished here in the interactive journal Voidspace 8.

Cult. Magazine No. 2 • Summer 2023 • 15th July 2023

"Henry Revisited"

Featured in CULT #2, available at Cult.Mag > Store. "Baba's threatening to maim herself with the IED she made with her Replicator," says Junior. "And you know she can do it! Even if she's faking a schizoid episode. The QuickResponders are surrounding her condo."

Neon Garden • Mannequin Haus • 3rd February 2023

"Ham Again and Again"

With apologies to Samuel Beckett, Dr. Seuss, and Monty Python's Flying Circus. A short one-act play composed by erasure/redaction of Beckett's "Endgame."

Electronic Literature Lab, WSU-Vancouver • 30th October 2022

Read or Listen to "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid"

The new start page for my hypertext novel "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" features a direct link to John Barber's radio adaptation of the novel from Re-Imagined Radio ("LISTEN NOW"), now fully integrated into the site, all courtesy of the Electronic Literature Lab.

Gargoyle Magazine • 12th September 2022

"Counting"

The Goreman Gelders had been undeterred by the groans that followed every BEEP!, or the shivering of grak-enhanced suppressed laughter, or the tear-streaked cheeks of their audience. They resolutely completed the 33-slide filmstrip and opened the floor for questions, but hearing none, they quietly packed up their projector and screen, smoothed down their skinny ties and rebuttoned their nondescript suit jackets. “Nice tapestries,” said the younger Gelder, somewhat longingly . . .

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Kairos 27.1 • 15th August 2022

"The Winograd Matrix"

In this interactive fiction, a gaming-industry couple are confined together in a near-future, post-pandemic world of Favatars, Syndics, and roving bands of Ferengi thugs. Unlike other Choose-Your-Own-Adventure type stories, the reader navigates the narrative by making grammatical (or meaning-making) choices rather than by choosing different actions. #interactive fiction #elit #pandemic fiction #experimental fiction

Litro Magazine USA • 3rd July 2022

"Tunneling"

[Back online!] Weasel is following me, panting, on hands and knees, through a passage we call Route 66, even though it’s only a hundred feet long, the diameter of a barrel hoop, and made of clay. “Do you think I want to die in here?” I say. #experimental fiction #futurism #survival #dystopian

Cult Magazine • 20th April 2022

"Chance Meeting Between Cambodian National Amputee Volleyball Team, Stephen Hawking, and Black Mothers Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, 2006"

“The future… of humankind… is in outer space,” Hawking says, grinning obliquely. He tells them he’s been invited to orbit the earth on Sir Richard Branson’s SpaceShipTwo for free. “It won’t cost me… an arm and a leg.”

Tupelo Quarterly • 16th March 2022

"June Swoon, 1994"

Why did Eva “swoon (desmayó?) & run away” at the motel? June Swoon. You might think this is a baseball phrase, something that every team has to hear when they go on a losing streak in June. I say this is a wild dream—but it is this dream I want to realize. Life and literature combined.

Re-Imagined Radio • 17th January 2022

Radio Play Adaptation of "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid"

Re-Imagined Radio's first ever radio adaptation of a hypertext novel. Produced by John Barber with audio design by Marc Rose, "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" is performed by The Voices, their ensemble of voice actors.

yunews • 26th July 2021

Four Poems at Poetry Hotel

Three poems ("Knuckleheads!", "September Spam Pantun," and "2034 Q&A"), and a prose-poem ("Waif OD," which first appeared in F(r)iction), have been given a room at YU News's Poetry Hotel.

Electronic Literature Lab, WSU-Vancouver • 23rd May 2021

Figurski at Findhorn on Acid — 20th Anniversary Edition

A mechanical pig, a commune in Scotland, the Holodeck, Spam, psychedelic drugs, a shower stall in a Florida trailer with the image of Jesus, an international spy—all this and more are back for the 20th Anniversary Edition of Richard Holeton’s "cult classic" hypertext novel.

revue bleuOrange #10 • 24th February 2021

"Postmoderne"

"Postmoderne" est un poème en prose et une saynète multimédia prenant la forme d'un diaporama en ligne, avec un texte constitué uniquement d'anagrammes provenant du mot postmoderne.

The Fictitious Press • 1st September 2020

MYNEXTDOORS DOT COM

MYNEXTDOORS DOT COM THE PRIVATE LOCAL NETWORK WHERE
YOU CONNECT WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS TO CREATE AND BUILD
BETTER STRONGER SAFER HAPPIER HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES

Art by Julian Mateus

NOMINATED FOR BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF 2020 • F(r)iction No. 16 • Summer 2020 • 16th July 2020

"Waif OD"

"Waif OD" is an "erasure fiction" composed by redaction of the text of Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT. It transforms GODOT's claustrophobic world of five male characters into a flash fiction about an abused woman.

Notre Dame Review • 11th January 2020

"Afterword(s): Take a Book/Leave a Book"

Welcome to the special &NOW issue of the NOTRE DAME REVIEW. Now in its fifteenth year, &NOW is a festival that brings together poets and novelists, fiction authors, artists, critics, musicians, programmers, performers and creators of visual, found, electronic, multimedia and other hybrid forms in a celebration of readings, panels, and other performances of innovative writing.

Photo by Bill Collins

The Brautigan Library • 3rd November 2019

LUMBER WORLD: A Novel

"Going to the Lumber Yard may never be the same again!" proclaims the fictional book jacket for my unpublished 1984 novel. "Big business and government agents team up, with their banks of computers and surveillance satellites, for an immense top-secret energy project in the Sahara Desert; as they become entangled with a small band of nomads and, halfway around the world, the eccentric crew of a California lumber yard, the results offer both analysis and antidote for modern times."