I can barely believe this story is seeing print! DEATH COMES FOR ALL THE PRETTY BUNNIES is a story about grief, crossdressing, jazz trouble and enduring friendship. It features an unhinged evening when two dudes wear dresses to Denver’s long lost jazz club, El Chapultepec, and end up highjacking the spotlight. (Some story beats may …
When I was a young man living in Paris, I found myself walking down the street next to an attractive woman. When she asked me for a light, I recognized her: Juliette Binoche! Her film BLEU had just come out, and she was in the early days of becoming one of the most famous actresses …
My new short story, “The Starworthy Slip,” appears in the Nov/Dec 2025 issue of Analog, currently on newstands everywhere! You can also order the issue (Nos. 11 and 12) online at https://analogsf.com/. It’s a sexy, fun heist story set on an asteroid city in orbit around Jupiter’s moon Europa, where blue collar spacedock workers service …
Come out and see the Chef perform a set of songs from the upcoming album, ASK THE MOON. All the songs were inspired by the characters and themes from my short story manuscript of the same name, which was my thesis at the Regis Mile High MFA program. Each song takes the point-of-view of one …
What if you could harness the possibilities of quantum entanglement to change people’s minds? What would you do with that power? I wrote this story, SPOOKY DISTANCE, in 2021, after reading a sciencey article in The New Yorker, and it just landed at MetaStellar: Speculative Fiction and Beyond. It’s one of my favorite pieces from …
I’ve been recording a solo album for the past year, with songs based on the characters and situations I wrote about in my Regis MFA thesis novel, ASK THE MOON. Each song is told from the perspective on one of the main characters, with my original music and lyrics. Come see me at Mutiny on …
This story is the anchor chapter in my manuscript, ASK THE MOON–a novel about friendship, sisterhood and the heartache and triumphs of musicians’ lives. The principle characters, Pilar and Goldy, grew up as step-sisters but grew apart after their parents split up. It’s their shared love and talent for music that continues to bond them …
Is Steven Spielberg a cyborg designed by Big Popcorn to sell product? Or a genuine artist driven by love of the craft and the pursuit of deep truths about the human experience? Both can be true, and THE FABLEMANS shows us how. It’s a masterpiece, and my favorite of all the films I wrote about …
The Pinch just published a short piece of mine, “Falcon Storm Song.” My very first published short story (“My Rockstar Life”) appeared in the same literary journal, back when it was called River City, in 2000. It’s good to be back home in the pages where I began. This piece is a kind of rhapsody …
In the late summer of 2010, I went on tour with my band, Veronica. With my bandmates (Ted Thacker and John Call), I spent a week motoring across the frontier from Denver to Reno to SF to Eugene to Portland to Seattle and back home. It was a whirlwind of highway hum, gas station sandwiches …