My Books and Stories

Here’s a complete list of all of my books, published stories and zines I have produced or in which I’ve appeared.

Books

Fiction

• Statue of Limitations (2025)
• Decision Paralysis (2024)
• The Failure Cascade (2020)
• Ranch: The Musical (2019)
• Book of Dreams (2018)
• Help Me Find My Car Keys And We Can Drive Out! (2017)
• Vol. 13 (2016)
• He (2015)
• The Memory Hunter (2014)
• Atmospheres (2014)
• Thunderbird (2013)
• Sleep Has No Master (2012)
• The Earworm Inception (2012)
• Fistful of Pizza (2011)
• The Annotated Rumored to Exist (2004, hardcover in 2013)
• Rumored to Exist (2002)
• Summer Rain (2000)

Nonfiction

• The Necrokonicon (2006)
• Dealer Wins (2004)
• Tell Me a Story About the Devil (2003)

Photo books

• The Hipstamatic Years (2021)
• Places I’ve Been (2006)

Stories

(Note that many of these links are probably dead. Most of these have been anthologized in other books.)

• “The Metaphor of Poundcake” in Horror Sleaze Trash: Prose in Poor Taste (2017)
• “The Form of the Honeycomb Cereal Sword” in Tall Tales with Short Cocks Volume 5
• “The Metaphor of Poundcake” at Horror Sleaze Trash (2016)
• “The Great Shit Storm of 1978” at Medium (2015)
• “An Open Letter to S.C. Johnson and Son, A Family Company” in The Strange Edge Magazine Issue Zero (2015)
• Atmospheres (excerpts) at Bizarro Central (2014)
• Atmospheres (excerpts) at Horror, Sleaze, and Trash (2014)
• “Bearded Women Shitting On Glass Tables Is Sort Of My Thing” at Horror, Sleaze, and Trash (2013)
• “Vehicular Handjobs and Pirate Hooks” at Horror, Sleaze, and Trash (2013)
• “Sleep Has No Master” at New Graffiti (2013)
• “The Lycanthropic Air Conditioning Folly” in Tall Tales with Short Cocks Volume 3 (2013)
• “The Long John Silver Vinegar Douche Abortion Attempt” at The Strange Edge (2013)
• “The Chainsaw Baron Prophecy” at Fictionaut (2012)
• “Princess Di’s Mercedes and the Dead Man’s ASL Chimp” in Tall Tales with Short Cocks Volume 2 (2012)
• “Krill Warriors” at Paragraph Line (2012)
• “Time Travel And The Posse Comitatus McDonald’s Standoff” at Fictionaut (2012)
• “The Zombies of Kilimanjaro” in Tall Tales with Short Cocks (2012)
• “Dwarf Meth Madness, Again” at Horror Sleaze Trash (2012)
• “Peak Oil” at The Mustache Factor (2012)
• “The Locality Principle” at In Between Altered States (2012)
• “I Believe I Can Flee the State” at His Cock is Money (2012)
• “The Gamecube Junkie Abortionist’s Revenge” at His Cock is Money (2012)
• “The Log Lady Incident” at Weirdyear (2012)
• “The Machine” at Three Minute Plastic (2011)
• “Rumored to Exist” (excerpt) at Indiebookslist (2011)
• “Between Pitches” at Chin Musik (2011)
• “The Rollins Cure” at Chin Musik (2011)
• “With Sleep, All Things Are Possible” at Weirdyear (2011)
• “Burial Ground” in Air in the Paragraph Line #13 (2010)
• “My Friend, The Jihadist” in Air in the Paragraph Line #13 (2010)
• “July 4, 2003” in Down the Block (2009)
• “Jesus 2000” in Santi: Lives of Modern Saints (2008)
• “Richard Fucking Nixon” in Air in the Paragraph Line #12 (2007)
• “They” in Air in the Paragraph Line #12 (2007)
• “I, Dishwasher” in Air in the Paragraph Line #11 (2006)
• “Red Lenses” in Air in the Paragraph Line #10 (2005)
• “Tell Me a Story About the Devil” (aka “Shuffle”) in Raped Ape Magazine #8 (2005)
• “Tell Me A Story About the Devil” (aka “F911”) in Raped Ape Magazine #4 (2004)
• “Tell Me A Story About the Devil” (aka “Gadahn”) in Raped Ape Magazine #3 (2004)
• “The Political Process and You” in Raped Ape Magazine #2 (2004)
• “Tell Me A Story About the Devil” (aka “Grocery Stores”) in Raped Ape Magazine #1 (2004)
• “If People Can Eat Blood Pudding, I Can Say I’m a Writer on my Tax Return” in Drunkenscrawl (2001)
• “My Brother Died in a Clown Car Accident, You Douchebag” in Drunkenscrawl (2001)
• “Rumored to Exist” (excerpt) in Assorted Realities (1999)
• “Dream Journal #1” in Air in the Paragraph Line #9 (1998)
• “Tenth and Walnut” in Air in the Paragraph Line #9 (1998)
• “Dog Tracks” in Air in the Paragraph Line #9 (1998)
• “Born On” in Air in the Paragraph Line #8 (1997)
• “Summer Rain” (original short story) in Air in the Paragraph Line #8 (1997)
• “Rumored to Exist” (excerpt) in Air in the Paragraph Line #8 (1997)
• “Ipecac in a Shotglas” in Extent Zine #1 (1996)
• “Virtually Alone” in The Tea Bowl (1994)

Zines

• Taco Bob Goes to Japan #16 (2023)
• Extrajudicial Enema Quarterly #15 (2023)
• Mandatory Laxative #14 (2016)
• Air in the Paragraph Line #1-13 (1996-2007)
• Xenocide #1-5 (1991-1993)
• Metal Curse (A column, reviews, and other stuff both print and online from 1991-)
• (There’s got to be other zine stuff I don’t remember. The toner dust has damaged my memory, probably.)

Other

Journalism

• “Video Games and Violence” in Rock Out Censorship #15 [archive]
• (A lot of other work for ROC, and it seems like I wrote another article or two. I also remember a painful project HTML-izing their entire site from bad photocopies.)
• I wrote a rambling letter to the editor of the IUSB school newspaper about the first Iraq war in 1991 that ended up becoming a front-page article, but I’m too embarrassed to post it, sorry.

Interviews (of me)

• At Paragraph Line (2016)
• At Goodreads with Arthur Graham (2016) [archive]
• At The Lit Pub (2013)
• At Horror Sleaze Trash (2012)
• At Bizarro Press (2012) [archive]
• At The Indie Spotlight (2012)
• At Kindle Author [archive] (2011)
• In Six Questions For… by Jim Harrington (2010)
• At The Hipster Book Club by Marie Mundaca (2008) [archive]
• At Dark Legions (2004)
• At dsl.org with Michael Stutz [archive] (2000)

(There are too many interviews and bits of interviews with me about the Adam Gadahn situation. Start with The New Yorker article and work backwards, I guess.)

Introductions

• Latch Key Kids by John Sheppard (2020)
• Butt Stuff (The Book) by Jeff O’Brien (2018)
• Metal Curse 1-4 “Collected Edition (1999)

Blurbs

Sometimes I’m asked to blurb a book, I actually read it, I write the blurb, and it ends up on the book cover. Usually 1-3 things in that sentence don’t happen. Anyway, here’s when all four happened:

• Roses are Red, Violets Are Stealing Loose Change From My Pockets While I Sleep by David S. Atkinson (2018)

Podcast Appearances

• Do Better Episode 14 (2018)
• Bizzong! (2017)
• All episodes of The Koncast (2017)
• Hangin With Old Lew #30 - “Alleged Pullout Game” (2017)
• Hangin’ With Old Lew #22 - “Botched Circumcision” (2017)
• J&B’s Nightcap #27 (2009)