A Few Moral Problems You Might Like to Ponder, of a Winter's Evening,
in Front of the Fire, with a Cat on Your Lap

New England Review
Volume 26, Number I (2005)
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"In this era of the insulted and the reeducated, you have the correct family background to be a model student. Your father was a peasant and your second elder sister was sold as a servant before Liberation. Chairman Mao is your sun and you are his sunflower. When he selects you to go to university, you denounce to your girlish heart the pride you feel..."

Missing, Believed Wiped

The Massachusetts Review
Volume XLV, No. 2
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"It was as if he had been there, with his parents and Speedy Alka-Seltzer and his non-existent kid brother: in the den of their Levittown house, in front of the black-and-white Philco, with Ernie Kovacs and the dancing Lucky Strikes and outside the 50s happening like a mushroom cloud..."

Presently in Ruins

Pushcart Prize-winning story
Story Quarterly 40
Pushcart Prizes XXX, 2006
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"The names had the sound of the History Channel: Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok Atoll, Guam. His father had been to each during the Second World War and he, the son, had never known about it. Fifty-one years he'd been alive and to find out who his father had been he had to get like this: drunk, lost, estranged from a minimum of two wives, and a murderer in the eyes of his sister, and maybe the state of Indiana..."