Plenty of Words
Read Michael's published stories!
(For newest, go to bottom of page)
Pre-2017:
Your Small House that Faces Away from the Sea | elimae
2017:
My Best Day | Dime Show Review
The Night I Quit the Neighborhood Watch | Literally Stories
The Grave Digger's Lemonade | Literally Stories
Class Reunion *or* I'll Use Your Entrails to Bind Our Legs for the Sack Race | Ghost Parachute
The Lesser Crime | Literally Stories
If I Begin to Count the Years | The Airgonaut
Sowing Grasses on the Foredunes' Windward Side | Five on the Fifth
2018:
In Politics You Create a List of Pros and Cons | Riggwelter
Short Hot Days | The Cabinet of Heed
I Will Teach the Prairie How to Dance | Ellipsis Zine
When Love is a Hostage Chained to the Radiator of Your Heart | After the Pause
There is Nothing so Durable (as Puddles in the Ocean) | The Airgonaut
All of the Stars in the Earth [Pushcart Nominated] | Bull & Cross
The Knowing of Which Way to Turn | Literally Stories
A Foodpairing of Sweat and Ashes | Ghost Parachute
The Cow and the Dog (a Fable) | The Cabinet of Heed
The World's Worst Alchemist | The Cabinet of Heed
Notes Regarding Your Escape | Ellipsis Zine
Tone Deaf | Hypnopomp Magazine
Critical Mass Exodus | formercactus
2019:
The Fruit Ridge Region | Bending Genres
Our One-Thumbed Whittler | The Cabinet of Heed
A Keeper of Things | The Airgonaut
Baby and Bucky | The Cabinet of Heed
Escape Velocity | Literally Stories
Faster Food | Back Patio Press
The Post Office Delivers a Shock | The Cabinet of Heed
42 S. Deacon St. #5 | MoonPark Review
A Public Service Message | Spelk
Cruel Apocalypse is Cruel [Best Small Fictions Nominated] | Bull & Cross
Covered Dish | Literally Stories
In Which a Tinker Courts Constable Arlene | The Cabinet of Heed
Naked as the Day of Creation | Ellipsis Zine, Six
It Takes a Hobo | The Cabinet of Heed
2020:
The Map Beneath | Literally Stories
Pat's Unlikely Star | Ellipsis Zine
Constable Arlene Runs | The Cabinet of Heed
Dystopia, Pennsylvania | Literally Stories
What I Found Underneath Love's Fingernails | Okay Donkey
A Personal Matter | The Daily Drunk
On the Shoulders of Stars | Ellipsis Zine
In the Mockingbird's Own Voice | Tiny Molecules
A Look Inside Voyeurism | Ligeia Magazine
Eminent Domain | The Daily Drunk
An Asterisk Next to Mason's Name | Dream Journal
The Last Book Collector | The Cabinet of Heed
2021:
Honey's Eternal Shelf Life | SVJ Lit *Dispatches*
Piddle County Ohio Book Club | The Daily Drunk
Gig Economy | Punk Noir Magazine
Reconstruction | Ellipsis Zine
Short Division | Revolution John
On a Map the Distance is Quite Close | Punk Noir Magazine
The Year We Noticed an Absence of Things | Close to the Bone
Detective Story | Bending Genres
2022:
Space Junk | New World Writing
2023:
Ruth, Carmen, and the Dust of Their Father: a Folk Tale | The Airgonaut
Rusty the Crab | Ellipsis Zine
Coming soon:
TBA
Wait, there are poems?