Creative Writing Publications

“Adventures of a Water Molecule.” (2005). Project Learning Tree. Part of PLT’s most recent curriculum guide on water. This flash fiction story is on the Internet as a companion to the hard copy guide. See below “Resources” on their page.

“Don’t Travel By Night.” (July 2005). Glimpse Magazine. Two Peace Corps volunteers (one of which is me) decide to travel by night through Nicaragua. Creative non-fiction. © Glimpse Foundation 2005. Earned “special mention” in Toasted Cheese’s A Midsummer Tale Contest.

“Monstruo de LEJOS.” (1996). Story used as center of an environmental education solid waste program sponsored by the National Zoo of Costa Rica for schools in the greater metropolitan area of San José. Only in Spanish. © Simon Bolivar National Zoo 1995

“Daily Happenings.” (1999). Hurricane Mitch in Central America (Brookside Publishers) and Honduras This Week. Creative non-fiction account of my days during and after Hurricane Mitch in La Ceiba, Honduras. Lead off piece in the book.

“Human Race Against Nature.” (October 2003). Keynote addess for the Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education. It was a multi-media creative essay (PowerPoint slides and an improv bass player) discussing why it is necessary to discard the term ‘nature.’

“Trip of Consciousness” and “Clueless” (1992). Poems. The Dartmouth. Dartmouth College’s daily student newspaper. The secon was co-written with Chris Arabia and is very short: As Freshmen we ask, “Where are you from?” As seniors we ask, “Where are you going?” If only the second were as easy to answer as the first.

“Blood on the Skiway.” (1988). Jack O’ Lantern, Dartmouth College’s humor magazine. Humor poem on the thrill of skiing dangerously.

“Truth About Stupidity.” (1988). Jack O’ Lantern. Parody of Emerson’s Oversoul and essay about stupidity in the universe as a conscious force.

“Song of the Rat.” (1988). Jack O’ Lantern. Poem about stupidity based on Walt Whitman’s style.

“Ode to the Custodian.” (1988). Jack O’ Lantern. Poem honoring janitors on the Monday after the Dartmouth Winter Carnival.

“The Road.” (1988). The Fortnightly. Short story in The Dartmouth’s biweekly weekend supplement. Also won the Hart Memorial Writing Contest in high school.

“The Only Solution.” (1988). PG-13. High school literary magazine. Short story.

“Untitled.” (1981). Foxboro Public School System applied a writing evaluation when I was in Fifth Grade. I was the only student in town to earn a perfect score on this fictional piece about what I would do if I had a time machine. The boost to my young ego launched my writing career.

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