Joined at the Hips: Story about Siamese Twins in the middle of nowhere... Published in Sensitive Skin. When you hitchhiked back then, before it was redefined as criminal trespass – and dangerous – you could get around OK and once in a while catch a ride with someone you would never have met in your regular life. [Do not take too seriously the image of my mother sobbing on her knees, clutching my ankle as I told her I was hitching to Colorado or fill-in-the-blank.] Think of hitchhiking like this: you take the numbers on a paint-by-number painting and rearrange them. Think of it as Catholicism in a rolling tin box. Think of it as fieldwork towards your Masters in Aberrant Psychology. I set about to hitchhike distances longer than a bike ride because I did not want to own a car. That gave a dignified, but somewhat dishonest, turn to the notion of being “wheel-less,” because not wanting to own a car out of principle is different from being scared to take the road test or the fact that I couldn’t afford a set of wheels – not even a 20-year-old Ford Pinto. Painting: Francesca Palazzola
Little Caesar's Motel Room: True humorous tale about meeting a vanity publisher, his wife &  dog Little Caesar in a motel room in the 70s. Thinking back to that time you realize that when you are still young you sometimes think you know so much but later on realize how naive you have been. This story negotiates the gray area between naiveté and cynicism, earnest and devious, writing as art & as failed commerce, and then there's the Little Caesar... Published in Merida: In Other Words, Merida, Mexico, January 2012.
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Beauty Is As Beauty Does: Originally appeared in The Unbearables Big Book of Sex [Autonomedia], Beauty is as Beauty Does also appeared in STATION TO STATION [Berlin]. Story takes place on the Lower Eastside and focuses on the effects of beauty on the soul. Final scene in bar Max Fish is unbelievably true.
Contemplating Bukowski’s First Kiss: Co-written with Black Sifichi, was first performed in 1991 in Finnegan’s Wake in Paris. It included a bust of Buk fabricated out of ground chuck and presented by plastic artist, Helena Villovitch. It first appeared in Massacre in 1993. Was republished in Beet in 199, in Light Trauma in 1996 and Merida: In Other Words in 2012 and BUKOWSKI: An Anthology of Prose & Fiction about Charles Bukowski, Silver Birch Press in 2013.
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"La Galerie," short short prose published in the most famous, longest-running, smallest publication of all time: Public Illumination Magazine:
#65 Beasts, #59: Flesh, #58: Fortune, 57: Vehicles, 54: Spice, 53: Trash & many many more
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Barbie & Her Perilous Anatomy: Originally appeared in Brown University’s literary magazine, Issues, vol. 23. Also appears in Instant Classics. It appeared in Dutch in MBA-Kajere as "Barbie en haar riskante anatomie" (in Dutch). Barbie & Her Perilous Sound was remixed by Black Sifichi & Roma Napoli and broadcast on Radio Libertaire’s Epsilonia, hosted by Jacques [RIP], and rebroadcast on Radio 100 and Radio Patapoe on "WTM #1050: Barbie vs John Cage."
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GNOMES: Deconstructing the Kabouter Myth,  A Comparative Essay Utilizing Gendered Critiques & Freudian Phallocratic Notions as Analytical Tools: "The origin of the viskabouter,[fishing gnome] of this research, is traced to Zeeland in the south of Holland…" Appeared in Journal of Irreproducible Results, an irreverent, hilarious Mad Magazine for the scientific & methodical among us. Co-written with Joke Onu.
Hack in Poontang Jungle: "I was the nocturnal hack, psycho-topo joyrider, romantic speedtrap dodge, zen cartologist & eternal pioneer of the poontang jungle…” Hack is based on actual experiences as a cabbie in late-70s Ann Arbor, MI. The story originally appeared in Cab Art in 1979, was rewritten for Screw in 1983, rewritten for Beet in 1993 and substantially reworked again for the Noirotica #3: Stolen Kisses Anthology, Black Books, in 2000 and 2001.
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