Fiction

Korean War stories

The First Hard Fight, about the defending the Pusan Perimeter on the Naktong River, in Cagibi.

Services, about the Jewish New Year on the front lines, in The Short Story Project.

Troopship, about the transport ship to the Korean War, originally published in Newtown Literary.

Home Economics, about race, religion and high school in 1949, in Cagibi.

Other recent short fiction

Little Men, flash fiction, in Scud.

The Pikeman, about New Amsterdam in 1643, in Greyhound Journal.

Nila, about an emotional vampire, in Necessary Fiction.

I Pity the Fool, about birthdays and bowling, in Bodega.

Winter Break, 1986, about family responsibility and the pickle business, in Scud.

Book(s)

Uggs for Gaza and Other Stories, short story collection.

2020: Good Writing from a Bad Year (editor)

Novellas

Adjunctivitis, about academia and the gig economy in Los Angeles, Kindle Single.

False Economies, about an American in 1980s London, Kindle Single.

Selected Short Fiction

His Grandmother’s Memory, a short story about possession, Kindle Single.

Uncle Oatmeal, about recovering, or not recovering, in Killing the Buddha.

The German Photographer, about success and failure in New York City, originally published in The Parenthetical Review.

Bourges, 1990, about music and France before the Internet, in The Weekly Rumpus.

The Real Story of Nigel Embo, about race, art and male competition, in Jewish Fiction.

UGGs for Gaza: a story about love and lying in LA, in The Normal School.

Selected Very Short Fiction

Tohu-Bohu, in Zeek.

How to Make Classic Chicken and Rice, in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.