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Recent publications 

Night School in You Must Be This Tall To Ride
Wheel Clatter in Emprise Review
Spatula Hands in Mud Luscious
A Boy and His Dog in Dogzplot
Sliver in PANK
Big Dumb Animal in Kill Author
Insane Barker in decomP Magazine
Apology in Night Train Magazine
Dog Park in Keyhole Magazine
Happy in Dogzplot
Dock Rules in Lit Up Magazine
Eating Crow" in Dogzplot
FNG in Mud Luscious
The Renter in Mud Luscious

 

Steven J. McDermott's short story collection Winter of Different Directions

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Support independent bookstores? ISBN: 9780615142807

 

The following stories from the collection are available online:

Swept Aside" in The Angler

Single Malts of the Olympic Peninsula in Word Riot

Tough Act in SmokeLong Quarterly

Fresh Sludge in Thieves Jargon

Crane Man in Scarecrow

Tools in The Angler

Blue Jeans and Black Leather originally appeared in Red Wheelbarrow

 

Other published stories include:

"Enter Wheelchair Man" in Timbercreek Review

"Oxygen" in Passages North

"Seven Blocks North, Two Miles East" in Carve

"Nothingness" in Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature

"My Summer Vacation" in Carve

"Proper Emotions" in Cenotaph

"Discipline" in The Rockford Review

"Go" in Westview

"Taps" in Cenotaph

"Duplicity" in Cenotaph

"Sanitation" in Tuesday Shorts