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- Seeds
Shankpainter 31, Spring 1991
"For the longest time we had wanted him desperately and in the worst way: wanting and wanting, nonstop and from as far back as we could recall. Then when he finally came to us, and loomed at the door, we had the smallest reversal in our thoughts. Well, we thought, maybe we didn’t want him all that badly…"
- Minute Steak Gothic
Caliban, 1988
"The woman lived with the boy, who was Large. He had a big head, particularly. Also his face was of a peculiar whiteness, beyond pale, which summoned to the minds of onlookers an image akin to fever, or a certain cheese.
His mother loved him…"
- "Fad's Eye" Short story in Conjunctions Magazine
CONJUNCTIONS:19 Fall 1992
"IN 1967 A WEIRD, rich freedom was in the air, attended by the lulls that follow good sex, rain or a successful electrocution. The suburbs were constellated voids and the minds and laps of young children were occupied with the virile new technology of their toys: electrical buzzing skeletal overlays, mechanized whirligigs, plasticine injectibles, and the glamorous fact of television, which proposed that dots, projected fine enough on a piece of glass, could constitute a reality fully the equal of Life…"
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