Here are some stories you can download. For free!

Cake - I'm letting you download this for free, but I'd really love if you went ahead and bought Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008. The anthology is now only ten bucks and you get a lot of really great pieces, especially George Saunder's essay about Bill Clinton's AIDS work. So buy it already!

That Kind of Nonsense - Originally published in Agni. It received a Special Mention in the 2004 Pushcart Prize anthology, I also think it's the funniest thing ever written about HIV. But I have HIV so I can say that.

Sweeps - I wrote this after I quit smoking, right after Bush was elected the first time. It was published in Happy.

Always The Last To Leave The Party - Published in Portland Review. This was the result of my love affair with Sweden. I call it "Left Behind" meets Ingmar Bergman meets Wes Anderson.

Newton's First Law of Motion - originally titled Mileage

Passage - Published in The Literary Review. I wrote this after Bush was elected the second time, and I started freaking out.

Hysteron Proteron - See me try to do horror and sci-fi. It was published in Gulf Stream.

End Credits - newish

Shellfish - new stuff

Crash - old stuff that that I gave up on years ago, but still like