The closest Paul Bowman ever came to killing Bigfoot was in 2011: “I was kicking around camp around two, three…
Category: Clippings
Coast to Coast Cat Smuggling
The rendezvous was arranged for a motel parking lot just off the I-44 freeway in Oklahoma. (“Please beware of this…
The Stranger
A new piece in Oklahoma Humanities Magazine’s Internationalism themed issue about assembling a version of the United States from abroad.
A Grand Theory of Everything
What do you do if you’re a teenager, stranded by your parents in New Delhi, without any sort of adult…
Short WIRED piece
Eyelids open; flowers blossom; tiny beaks tap cracks in eggshells; crops sprout; creatures stalk, slide, and wriggle from their burrows;…
Bearded Oklahoma for Oklahoma Today Magazine
Oklahoma is one of the country’s most beard-friendly states. The American Mustache Institute, a St. Louis-based group advocating for the…
The &Now Awards 3 Anthology piece out now
The &NOW AWARDS 3: The Best Innovative Writing edited by Megan Milks
Audible version of AMERICAN OUTLAWS
AMERICAN OUTLAWS is now available as an audiobook. I have review copies if anyone is interested in hearing it.
Satan Comes to Oklahoma City
My ailing wife, Amy, had demanded that I take her to a Black Mass, a well-publicized one that would have…
Heavy Heart, Empty Heart
In 1963, back when it was still acceptable for poets to be openly, ferociously competitive, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s whorled…