Stories/Novel Excerpts“On the Nature of Good and Evil” (novel excerpt) forthcoming Harvard Review (Fall 2024)
“The List” (short story) Kestrel (Spring 2019)
“The Levee” (novel excerpt) Transition (Fall 2023)
“Son of God, Son of the Earth” (novel excerpt) Susurrus (August 2021)
“Empire of the Sea” (short story) Brittle Paper (November 2022)
Interviews
“Eunice was just the opposite. She ate so little she’d dwindled down to some distilled essence, as if everything superficial had been burned away and what remained was fierce and raw and naked as an unsheathed sword.”
- from “The List”
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“According to the stories, angels had descended and breathed into the bodies of early proto-humans that burning particle of God called the soul, and like the angels the resulting creatures were tireless, sleepless, and heaven a living memory in them. But slowly as they evolved and explored their surroundings, spreading across the earth and traveling the seven seas, the memories of their origins began to fade until eventually they slumbered into legend, and the people acquired the habit of sleep.”
- from “The Habit of Sleep”
“It meant that he was both the child of the living god and the child of the living earth.”