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I'm delighted that several of my experimental pieces have been published by some of the literary zines I most admire. Here's the list:

October 2002, Comrades:

September 24, 2002: I saw a crippled man struggle with his aluminum arm-crutches.
September 19, 2002: I have no inner sense of the passage of time.
September 4, 2002: Sketch: John.

October 2002, Physik Garden:

November 2002, The Blue Moon Review: first-ever "Guest Blogger."

September 26, 2002: I saw him on the bus one morning with a teenage girl in braces.

November 2002, Comrades has accepted:

December 2002, Inkburns:

November 17, 2002: Sketch: Regina.
November 18, 2002: Subject: dress up Mondays.
November 20, 2002: Black felt pen.
November 21, 2002: Her sister's apartment.
November 22, 2002: MUNI train, L Taraval line, morning commute inbound, somewhere beneath Twin Peaks.

January 2003, Epiphany:

November 9, 2002: Her resentment at the way stupid Americans pronounce her name.

March 2003, Word Riot:

January 2004, Big Bridge:

September 21, 2003: Matted tail. Yellow mucus hardening at the corners of his mouth.
October 23, 2002: Black curtains, black towels, black sheets...
February 27, 2003: She's not sure she knows her birthday.
March 13, 2003: Cigarette ashes inside her car, thick like gray-white slush...
October 16, 2003: "Thank you," she said...
May 5, 2003: My cancer is like a friend who screens me from those parts of the world from which I choose to disengage.
April 13, 2003: He walks with raised elbows, as if they were resting on fence posts to either side.
February 9, 2003: With her sister at the aquarium.
February 5, 2003: The way she leaves half-full ashtrays at points around the house...
September 7, 2003: Thin boys in a 1968 Chevy Nova, canary yellow.
August 20, 2003: It's like Norm walking into the bar on "Cheers".

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