Short Stories
Here are short stories of mine appearing in various magazines. Roman forgers, Polynesian dreamers, Russian chess-players, Japanese fashion designers... it's all about the story.
The
Forgery (Untoward)
Many
Islands (KGB Bar Lit Magazine)
Middlegame
(Narrative)
You
can also buy the printed volume of the Winter 2012 Narrative that
contains "Middlegame" here, also containing stories by Alice Munro, Sherman Alexie, and others.
Ichiwa
Ango (Night Train), (reposted in Fiction365)
The
Masses Demand a Realistic and Constructive Assessment of the
General Secretary's Condition (Electric Literature -- The
Outlet)
Juno
Broccoli and the Songstealers (Storyglossia)
Hecklers
(ApostropheCast)
Cute Monster Spirit Pet Fluffy You Up! (Ninth Letter) This story is not available online, but you can buy the printed volume of the Fall/Winter 2008 Ninth Letter that contains "Cute Monster Spirit Pet Fluffy You Up!" here, also containing stories by César Aira, Mai Al-Nakib, and others.
Brush
Fire (first posted in SoMa Literary Review, reposted in Fiction365
Believe
What You Read About the Wodderin (Dublin Quarterly)
The
Mysterious Remnant (Agni Online)
Tornadoes
Along a Möbius Strip (Entelechy)
Gwendolyn,
or Shame Intruding Briefly on Guilt (Narrative)
A
Woman Talking To Albatrosses About Monogamy (Identity Theory)
The
Roaring Ocean Does Not Roar (Fiction Attic)
The
Master Who Painted Birds (Eclectica)
Contact: james jameswarner net
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