Many of the stories in this collection appeared in the following publications:
Alsop Review, “Banjo Grease,” “Chrysalis,” “Cloth,” “Escape,” “Horace,” “Passing Through Ambridge,” “Popeye’s Dead,” “Say Hello to Stanley,” “The Scar”; American Jones Building & Maintenance, “White Shoulders”; ATOM MIND, “Passing Through Ambridge,” “Popeye’s Dead”; Best of the Year, CrossConnect Anthology, “Big Whitey”; Blue Cathedral: Short Fiction for the New Millennium, “Say Hello to Stanley”; Blue Moon Review, “Oh, Josephine”; CrossConnect, “Big Whitey”; FUEL Magazine, “Oh, Josephine”; Fiction 2000, “Say Hello to Stanley”; Java Snob Review, “Passing Through Ambridge”; Lynx Eye, “Say Hello to Stanley”; Oval Magazine, “Popeye’s Dead”; Pangolin Papers, “Day Laborer”; Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, “Banjo Grease”; Red Rock Review, “Escape”; Rosebud, “The Pruner”; Salt Hill Journal, “Chrysalis”; Southern Indiana Review, “The Scar”; Sou’wester, “Escape”; Sundog, the Southeast Review, “Banjo Grease”; Talus and Scree International Journal, “Big Whitey”; Taproot Literary Journal, “Horace”; Writer’s Forum, “Escape”; and Yefief, “Cloth.”
“Say Hello to Stanley” won First Prize in the Alsop Review in 1999. “Horace” won First Prize in Taproot Literary Journal’s National Competition in 1998. “Popeye’s Dead” won First Prize in the Oval Magazine’s National Competition in 1996.