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Fiction, essays, and dispatches from the studio — on the things that stay with you.
Books
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Sam in Pieces
Sam Cooper has a plan. Wake up. Take his pills. Write in his journal. Keep everyone exactly three meters away. Until he sees Julia playing her guitar like an extension of herself, and Sam’s plan starts to crack.
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Adam in Waves
Adam Peck is thirty-three years old when he gets in his car and starts driving. in his grandfather's cherry-red Toyota 2000GT named Ferdi. He’s not a painkiller addict. Not a deranged gambler. Or a sex addict. But who is he? He’s not quite sure and the last thing he’d like is to find out.
Short Stories
Short Story
Coffee.
A series of vignettes that makes me feel alive.
Short Story
Wild Flowers & Dead Roses
Oliver Campbell had been a lively and loud child only when it would not get him in trouble. He remembered every stump he’d ran across the small front yard of their home, zigzaging around the…
Short Story
Anti-wish.
“Welcome to the fantastic life of Otto Nevermerer,” said the fish with a high face and open wings.
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A Second Curse.
She’d stalled in front of the doors, to a cave of decadence and insatiable hunger.
Short Story
The Castle at Huttle Street
At the end of Huttle Street stood a castle unlike any other building in the world.
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A Dog Named Bollo
María lived in the same house her mother had lived in, shopped at the same corner store, and attended the same school where her parents had fallen in love.
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The Cross-Country Road Trip: Part 8
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New Collection Sneak Peek, Store Debut, and the Boring Bits.
August was a whirlwind of a month here at the D&OS headquarters.
The Cross-Country Road Trip: Part 7
The first sign we’re close to our destination are the tacky, old western-looking stores with massive signs that say Petrified wood for sale in hand painted white letters on a wood slap right…
The Cross-Country Road Trip: Part 6
New Mexico, part 2.
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