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Published Short Stories
"The Cross County"
Buffalo Carp: Quad Cities Arts’ Journal (Volume 5, published March 14, 2008.).
A new neighbor causes friction between 5-year-old Bobby Farrand’s parents, but he's too distracted by all the new technological marvels around him in 1955 to understand what's happening.
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"Metastory"
Soundings East (Salem, MA. Forthcoming in 2008.).
A writer argues with himself as he tries to compose a short story about writing a short story.
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"Lincoln Towers"
The Chariton Review (Publication forthcoming).
A resident of a housing complex on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is having trouble telling his dreams apart from his waking life--at least he hopes they’re dreams.
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"A Proper Bed"
The Nassau Review '06 (volume 9, number 2).
An earlier version was presented at The Edinburgh International Internet Festival 2002 (August-September 2002).
Despite his happy suburban family life, Chip Miller struggles with the realization that his growing need for something more--for something very
specific--may separate him from his neighbors.
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"Twin Towers"
The Dirty Goat. (February 2006, 15th Anniversary Issue.)
http://www.thedirtygoat.com/.
Peggy Monroe, a 60-something former cabaret singer from New Orleans, deals with life and the lack of love in post-9/11 New York.
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"Park Avenue"
Queer Ramblings Magazine. (Fall 2005.)
Chip Miller struggles with his attraction to men during his longs runs in Central Park while his wife Sally is back in the apartment balancing the couple’s checkbook.
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"Wallpaper"
Eureka Literary Magazine. (Fall 2005).
Peter Payne--Sports Illustrated insert card writer by day, aspiring fiction writer by night--puts his rejection letters to good practical use.
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"Power to the Pulpit"
Lynx Eye, a Scribblefest Literary Group Publication (November 2001).
After going off to college in the early 1970s and becoming a proud agnostic, Tommy Hilton nevertheless yields to the temptation to participate in Youth Sunday during Thanksgiving break back at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.
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"Dakota"
The Circle, the website of Circle Magazine (Fall 2002)..
www.circlemagazine.com (go to "Past Issues" and "Fall 2002")
Surprised and disappointed to discover that his potential sex buddy is an old man, a closeted married man from Connecticut takes advantage of the situation to find out what life is like inside New York's most fabled apartment building. (This story is the basis for my one-act play, The Dakota, which in turn is the basis for my full-length play, Scenes From the Dakota.)
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Other Short Stories: Available for Publication
Ashes (2322 words; 8 pages). A man attending a memorial service makes an unexpected connection with the deceased.
Headlines (3559 words; 12 pages). Chip Miller survives many close calls until his secret activities finally land him on the front page of The New York Post.
Not Here Yet (3975 words; 14 pages). A Park Avenue woman thinks she may have found her place in the world at the entrance to a subway station. (Based on my one-act play, Not Here Yet.)
Dummy Copy (1950 words; 7 pages). A graphic designer is frustrated by an editor who keeps editing her dummy copy.
Chamber Music (2017 words; 7 pages). A man’s mind wanders during a musical evening in honor of Mozart’s 250th birthday.
Snap (3084 words; 10 pages). The morning after being dumped by her boyfriend, a 42-year-old woman skips work and sits on a bench in Central Park reflecting on all her failed romances.
Chrysler (3000 words; 9 pages). The tale of a man torn between infatuation with the Chrysler Building and a rocky relationship with his girl friend--not to mention indecision about whether to become a writer after all.
The Century (3900 words; 13 pages). A man finally tells his therapist what's really on his mind. (This story formed the basis of my one-act play, The Session.)
A Modest Proposal (3700 words; 12 pages). The tale of a man and a woman, copywriters at the same advertising agency in the mid-eighties, whose growing friendship leads to the discovery that each of them has a secret life.
A Better Solution (2500 words; 8 pages). Matthew "Chip" Miller sets off for Cornell University in the 1970s with the fear that there's something terribly wrong with him, but the hope that he'll finally be able to set things straight in Ithaca, NY.
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