Poetry and Fiction

Fire in the Pasture: Twenty-first Century Mormon Poets, Peculiar Pages book

The Dead (2013)

Play adaptation based on the short story by James Joyce

Written for Javen Tanner and The Sting & Honey Company, finished but unproduced

“June the Fifth” (2011)

Short story

The first piece of fiction written after a long hiatus, imagining a man who marries someone new nearly every year, for fifty years, on June 5th

Nest of Vultures (2001)

Two-act play, Act I “The Death of an Idealist,” Act II “The Lie”

Two Americans on Mulatupu, an island off the coast of Panama, confront the magic realism of an ancient Indigenous culture, unfinished

“The Sad, Sad Tale of Elder Schmo” (2000)

Children’s story with sketches by Steve Klamm about a bumblingly effective missionary, written as rap

“Exquisite Corpse” (1999)

Collaborative poem written for Mormon Artists Group’s inaugural event, curated by Stephen Moore at the photography studio of Jon Moe, in New York

Double Trouble (1999)

Short play

Farce about mistaken identities, sent as a Christmas gift to friends

Handsome Men (1997)

Short stories

Collection of short stories written as a gift for friends Michael Dym and Jim Gricar

Pop Art Songs (1997)

Set of poems, “Meatloaf,” “Mr. Bubble,” “TV,” “Barbie Love”

Published in Fire in the Pasture: Twenty-first Century Mormon Poets (Peculiar Pages, 2011).

“King of America” (c. 1992)

Short story

A reimagining of what might have happened had Martin Luther King not been assassinated and later became President of the United States

Untitled novel (c. 1992)

“It’s Called ‘The Smoking Gun’,” “Starpower,” “Did He Really Say It Is Beautiful?,” “The First Draft”

Series of connected short stories and fragments read in a writing class, partially completed

“Helen’s Reel Friends” (1992)

Short story

An older woman frequents a movie revival house

“The Lost Weekend” (1991)

Short story

Overeating replaces alcoholism in a contemporary update inspired by the 1945 Billy Wilder film

“The Cruelest Thing I Ever Said” (1991)

Poem

Coney Island Hymn (1990)

Set of three poems about Brooklyn, “Carousel,” “Cyclone,” “Shore”

“Shore” published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (Summer 1992).

“New Veins” (1990)

Poem

“Three A.M.” (1989)

Poem

Untitled (undated)

Untitled experimental novel of six stories, each with a different narrator

Tales of Mulatupu (1989)

Novella, unfinished

“Lagoon” first story of the six (sketched out)

“(from) Tales of Mulatupu” (1989)

Short story with experimental poetry published in Works, Spring 1989 II, I

The Self-Portraits of Monet (1989)

Cycle of ten poems, “1866,” “1868,” “1869,” “1870,” “1874,” “1883,” “1885,” “1889,” “1891,” and “1925”

Published in Works, Spring 1989 II, I

Brooklyners (c. 1988)

Short stories, including “The D Train”

“The First Draft” (1988)

Short story

Published in Works, Spring 1988

“No. 3” (1988)

Poem

Published in Works, Spring 1988

“I Like the Opera Bows and Not Just for Cleavage” (1988)

Poem

Published in Works, Spring 1988

Rewritten as “If the Final Attack Was Just Right”

“For Wendy” (1985) Poem