"Alternate Universe"
As a Bath Flash Fiction Award winner (long list, June, 2025), my <300 word story has been published in the 2026 anthology "How to Fold a World Map: Bath Flash Fiction Volume Ten" from Ad Hoc Fiction.
Fiction, e-lit, & poetry
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).
Read or Listen to "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid"
The new start page for my hypertext novel "Figurski at Findhorn on Acid" now offers an integrated option to listen to the radio play adaptation.
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.
"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."
"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.”
"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 . . . ."
"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
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"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 . . . ."
"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.
"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."
"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 . . .
"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."
Made with Craiyon.com
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"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
"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
"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.
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.
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.
"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."
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.
"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.
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
YOU CONNECT WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS TO CREATE AND BUILD
BETTER STRONGER SAFER HAPPIER HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
Art by Julian Mateus
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"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.
"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.
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