“What should we drink?” she asked. “It’s pretty chilly outside right now, don’t you think? How about some hot chocolate?” “Let’s drink beer.” “Er, okay, but it’s morning time. Although I guess it is five o’clock somewhere on the planet, am I right?” “Big ones,” the woman said. “Big as
On Saturday, October 14, I’ll be participating in Indie Author Day at the Williamsburgh Public Library, 240 Division Avenue, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. That’s the library where I used to research my reports in sixth grade and junior high. I haven’t been back since, so this should be nostalgic. Or rage-inducing. Williamsburg does both for
This September I’ll be doing a series of events to help promote Latin@ Rising: An Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy. The book’s stalwart editor, Matthew David Goodwin, is flying into NYC from Puerto Rico and hitting four of the five boroughs, so many of the local-area writers from the
My short story “Ending in Paumanok” is available, with this loverly illustration on the fiction app, Great Jones Street. Get the app and read the story here. Some background on the story: I went to college at SUNY Stony Brook on Long Island, so when I wanted to contribute to
My flash story “The Chupacabra’s Charming Cuchifrito Cafe, Recommended Review” has been published in the latest and, sadly, one of the last anthologies from Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. The magazine was started in 1952 and this January announced that it was closing. Here is an excerpt of “The Chupacabra’s
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I’ll be running the workshop Creating Strange New Worlds: How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy, as part of the Bronx Writers Center Big Read series — the read in this case being Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea, which is not to be confused with A Wizard of Avenue
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My essay “Nuyoricans Go Home,” a fictionalized memoir, is now up in the premiere issue of Latino Literatures: A Cultural and Literary Journal. The journal hopes to be an online source for contemporary discussion on Latina/o literature and culture, and publishes visual art, short prose fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and
