B & E. Things that are broken in Providence, RI in 1982: one heart, multiple houses (into).
Raleigh Review, 2023
Anything for a Friend. Let’s say an old buddy asked you to accompany him to Western Canada and be his paid friend.
Wascana Review, 2004
The Jade Dragon. What constitutes an “authentic” Chinese meal, restaurant, or life?
Grain, Fall 2015
A Routine Flight. Early morning YWG to YUL represents adventure for 22A.
The New Quarterly, Winter 2012
The Arrival. A Sikh immigration consultant from Toronto reevaluates the Canadian dream.
Freefall, Vol 18, Number 2
Bartleby, Smoker. Perhaps you’d prefer not to put out your cigarette.
Nassau Review 2002
Frobisher Laramie. Oh man can the guy in the next cubicle get on your nerves!
The Main Street Rag 2008
Don’t be a Passenger on the Road to Success (creative non-fiction). Adventures in teaching driving school and cleaning swimming pools.
SNReview 2007
The Story. Once the story leaves the author’s hands it takes on a life of its own, sometimes a very full life, particularly if the author can’t let go.
Descant 140
Tyler Wurst. There’s a lot riding on rec league “fall ball.”
Aethlon 2016
Do Your Best. It’s the Cub Scout Motto, and it goes double for Cub Scout leaders, particularly when they have something to prove.
Southwest Review, 2018
The Kingdom Chalice. Serving as steward and booster of your remote and backward kingdom’s prized cultural artifact can weigh on you and cause you to act out. Not saying that’s what happens, but it’s possible.
The Dalhousie Review, Summer 2014
Illuminated Stones. Some people, usually trained artists, get to make art that goes on gallery walls, but many people, including security guards, have an artistic bent.
Prairie Fire, 2005
Fiction Workshop. Nobody wants the truth; they say they do, but they don’t.
Fugue, 2003-04
We All Hate Rob Ford. You try to introduce some levity but . . .
The Danforth Review 2013
A Jarry Park Education (creative non-fiction). A slice of Montreal in the mid-1970s .
Montreal Review, 2013 (originally published in Spitball).
Moblinksy at the Wheel (micro fiction). You really should have taken a cab Moblinksy, you can certainly afford it.
paperplates, volume 6, no. 3
Not a Good Fit. You get fired, call a friend for a ride, and end up drinking beer all afternoon in the park; not surprisingly it doesn’t make you feel any better.
paperplates, volume 8, no. 2
The Onion. What a great nickname for a ballplayer, real name Steve Onioni, a barber’s son from Rochester, NY.
Spitball, Fall 2015
Tim Lehnert 
