For published shorts see: Published.
The Cocktail Party – Flash Fiction
I don’t write much flash fiction. My short stories often seem to want to become novels and flashes get longer also. This one stayed short.
Princess of the Night – With apologies to Philip Roth
I wrote this story as an exercise in a class I took during a workshop in Prague. On the plane to Prague, I read a novel by Philip Roth and his fascinating style was in my mind when we were given an assignment. So this story owes its life to Roth. Little did I know that my instructor, Arnost Lustig, a well known Czech writer, was a personal friend of Roth. My paper was met with modest feedback. I never claimed to be as good as Roth!