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I attended the Antioch Writer's Conference in 2003 and while I was there I wrote my first and only science fiction story, "The Wind." Science fiction magazines aren't interested in publishing it. They say it doesn't have enough action, technology, etc. Literary journals won't touch it because it's "genre" fiction. Let me know what you think.

"Downsizing" is a more recent story. It's a short-short, a format I love to write. One of my professors at Northwestern, Sandi Wisenberg, taught me how to write short-shorts. It's not as easy as it looks. As in poetry, each sentence carries the weight of a chapter and every word carries the weight of a sentence. I think writing short-shorts and poetry has improved my longer fiction. I'm making more conscious word choices. So here's a poem, "Passive Aggression."