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"Downsizing" was a finalist in The World's Best Short-short Story Contest and appeared in Vol. 25 No. 1 of The Southeast Review. 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."

Way back in 2003 I attended the Antioch Writer's Conference and while I was there I wrote my first and only science fiction story, "The Wind." Let me know what you think.