The Black Widow Teaches Her Daughter Some Tricks
       
     
The Food Chain
       
     
Lucky Dragon (reprint)
       
     
Lucky Dragon (reprint)
       
     
Lucky Dragon
       
     
Something Here Will Eventually Have to Explode
       
     
The Three Deaths of Remy Bonaventure
       
     
Good Neighbors
       
     
The Ruined City
       
     
Stomp Tokyo
       
     
Rubberneckers
       
     
A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part IX: Freddy vs. the Madsen Brothers
       
     
Your Five-Day Accuweather Forecast
       
     
Flooding
       
     
Substitutes (reprint)
       
     
Substitutes
       
     
Conspiracy
       
     
Are You Now?
       
     
Faults
       
     
The Sexual Predator's Handbook
       
     
All the Dairy Queens South of the Mason-Dixon Line
       
     
Rabbit-in-the-Moon
       
     
Delenda (reprint)
       
     
Delenda
       
     
Lucky
       
     
Independence
       
     
Class of '80
       
     
Parts of Speech
       
     
Acres
       
     
Paranoia
       
     
Yellowtail
       
     
The Black Widow Teaches Her Daughter Some Tricks
       
     
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The Black Widow Teaches Her Daughter Some Tricks

Storyquarterly, 2021

The Food Chain
       
     
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The Food Chain

Copper Nickel, Fall 2017

Pushcart Prize 2019, Special Mention

Lucky Dragon (reprint)
       
     
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Lucky Dragon (reprint)

The O. Henry Prize Stories 2018, ed. Furman (Anchor Books, 2018)

Lucky Dragon (reprint)
       
     
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Lucky Dragon (reprint)

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017, ed. Vowell (Mariner Books, 2017)

Lucky Dragon
       
     
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Lucky Dragon

Ploughshares, Summer 2016

Winner of the Alice Hoffman Prize

Best American Short Stories 2017, Distinguished Story

Something Here Will Eventually Have to Explode
       
     
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Something Here Will Eventually Have to Explode

Bloom, Fall 2013

The Three Deaths of Remy Bonaventure
       
     
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The Three Deaths of Remy Bonaventure

Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal, 2013

Runner-Up for the 2013 Nelson Algren Short Story Award

Good Neighbors
       
     
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Good Neighbors

Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring/Summer 2012

The Ruined City
       
     
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The Ruined City

Witness, 2011

Best American Short Stories 2012, Distinguished Story

Stomp Tokyo
       
     
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Stomp Tokyo

Ninth Letter, Winter 2009

Rubberneckers
       
     
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Rubberneckers

Crab Orchard Review, Fall 2008

A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part IX: Freddy vs. the Madsen Brothers
       
     
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A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part IX: Freddy vs. the Madsen Brothers

Greensboro Review, Fall 2008

Your Five-Day Accuweather Forecast
       
     
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Your Five-Day Accuweather Forecast

Harpur Palate, Winter 2008

Flooding
       
     
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Flooding

Epoch, Fall 2007

Substitutes (reprint)
       
     
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Substitutes (reprint)

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, ed. Furman (Anchor Books, 2009)

Substitutes
       
     
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Substitutes

Five Points, Fall 2007

Best American Short Stories 2008, Distinguished Story

Conspiracy
       
     
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Conspiracy

North Dakota Quarterly, Summer 2007

Are You Now?
       
     
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Are You Now?

Greensboro Review, Spring 2006

Faults
       
     
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Faults

Arts & Letters, Spring 2006

The Sexual Predator's Handbook
       
     
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The Sexual Predator's Handbook

Harpur Palate, Spring 2006

All the Dairy Queens South of the Mason-Dixon Line
       
     
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All the Dairy Queens South of the Mason-Dixon Line

Threepenny Review, Fall 2005

Rabbit-in-the-Moon
       
     
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Rabbit-in-the-Moon

Michigan Quarterly Review, Winter 2005

Delenda (reprint)
       
     
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Delenda (reprint)

A Best of Fence: The First 9 Years, Vol. 2, ed. Wolff (Fence Books, 2009)

Delenda
       
     
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Delenda

Fence, Winter 2004

Lucky
       
     
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Lucky

Zoetrope: All-Story, Summer 2004

Independence
       
     
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Independence

Seattle Review, Summer 2004

Class of '80
       
     
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Class of '80

Florida Review, Spring 2004

Parts of Speech
       
     
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Parts of Speech

Chicago Review, Summer 2003

Acres
       
     
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Acres

Black Warrior Review, Fall 2002

Paranoia
       
     
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Paranoia

Quickies: Short Short Fiction on Gay Male Desire, ed. Johnstone (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1998)

Yellowtail
       
     
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Yellowtail

His 2, eds. Drake & Wolverton (Faber & Faber, 1997)