SmokeLong Quarterly

In your bio, you mention postmodernism and critical realism. So give us an example of a favorite from each genre.

Oh, gosh, I really have no idea what those things mean. I just thought it sounded cool.

Aside from flash, what other sorts of writing do you do? Any preferences?

I mostly write poetry, haiku and short stories. I prefer very short forms, as a way of paring experience down to its core. Also, I don’t have much of an attention span.

How much of this story is fiction and how much of it is creative non-fiction?

Everything’s true except what I made up.

As a self-professed poetry idiot, I can’t express how much I love the last line of this. Do you yourself “get poetry?” And if not, what’s the barrier?

I get poetry the same way I get music. On an intuitive level, beyond reason and semantics.