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JWH-00    Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer
Complete Collection of Essays
JWH-01   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Poor Brother Ass
JWH-02   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
The Triumph of Piddling Persistence
JWH-03   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Bees Attracted to Vinegar
JWH-04   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Know ye not that ye are gods?
JWH-05   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Unpasteurized Milk and Honey
JWH-06   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Tingling and Numbness
JWH-07   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Running on Pure Adrenalin
JWH-08   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Bien con Bien Se Paga
JWH-09   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Mother Nature’s Son
JWH-10   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
A Stroke of Luck
JWH-11   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Patience and Determination
JWH-12   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Selling the Future Short
JWH-13   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
My Friends
JWH-14   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Skin-to-Skin
JWH-15   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
A Grown Man in a Toddler’s Body
JWH-16   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Life or Death
JWH-17   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Dandelions and Daisies
JWH-18   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
The Man Who Owned Everything
JWH-19   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
The Man Who Has Everything
JWH-20   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
The Fledgling
JWH-21   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Trust
JWH-22   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Fearlessness
JWH-23   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
The Cardboard Box Syndrome
JWH-24   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
A Blessed Life
JWH-25   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Tenacious and Adaptive
JWH-26   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
The Queen of Mirth
JWH-27    Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
A Prayer and a Poem
JWH-28   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Thank-yous and Good-byes
JWH-29   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Labor Day Weekend
JWH-30   Essays & Short Fiction: Journey of a Wounded Healer Journey of a Wounded Healer:
Dawn or Twilight?
 

BOOK REVIEWS

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1999-KR_Basso
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1999-KR_Richman
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2000-KR_Corman
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2000-KR_Darlington
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2000-KR_Davison
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2000-KR_Eady
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2000-KR_Flynn
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2000-KR_Friedman
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2000-KR_Gallup
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2000-KR_Garren
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2000-KR_Guillevic
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2000-KR_Gwyn
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2000-KR_Heaney
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2000-KR_Kinsella
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2000-KR_Levine
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2000-KR_Patten
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2000-KR_Pinsky
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2000-KR_Seidel
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2000-KR_Wright
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2001-KR_Bader
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2001-KR_Cavafy
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2001-KR_Gill
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2001-KR_Grossman
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2001-KR_Norris
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2001-KR_Pockell
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2001-KR_Rowley
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2002-KR_Adovasio
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2002-KR_Finlay
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2002-KR_Jones
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2002-KR_Larson
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2002-KR_Nothdurft
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2002-KR_Weinberger
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2003-KR_Anderson
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2003-KR_Reidel
 

SS-01      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
Musical Theory

SS-02      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
In the Rubble

SS-03      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
Family Shopping

SS-04      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
The Christmas Village

SS-05      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
My Advice to Young Writers

SS-06      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
Revolutions

SS-07      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
Bonsai Jack

SS-08      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
A Modern Hero
or, The Man Who Wasn’t There

SS-09      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
The Magician's Wife

SS-10      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
Blondi and Friend

SS-11      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
Repercussions

SS-12      Short Fiction & Poetry

Short Stories:
The Red Dress

 

POETRY

PO-01      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
Moon of Yellow Leaves
PO-02      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
Ghost
PO-03      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
Morning Ritual
PO-04      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
Leather Slippers
PO-05      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
Him
PO-06      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
Muse
PO-07      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
How I’d Paint a Certain Dream
PO-08      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
The Long Way Home
PO-09      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
Cacao
PO-10      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
Chill
PO-11      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
Fall
PO-12      Short Fiction & Poetry Poetry:
Fractal
 

AFTER the FLOOD
or THE CHILDREN of NOAH

SSC-01    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

The Eye of the Beholder
SSC-02    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

A Beast of One’s Own
SSC-03    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

Getting Educated
SSC-04    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

Dr. Love
SSC-05    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

Fools of Fate
SSC-06    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

An Accident of Birth
SSC-07    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

Two-Spirit People
SSC-08    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

The Revenge of the Innocents
SSC-09    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

The Mysterious Walls
SSC-10    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

Beaten to the Punch
SSC-11    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

Five Minutes from Madness
SSC-12    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

A Second Chance
SSC-13    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

Coming Home
SSC-14    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

The Children of Noah
SSC-15    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
After the Flood:

Epilogue
 
CAFÉ KUNDALINI
SSC-16    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

Café Kundalini
SSC-17    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

The Man Who Has Everything
SSC-18    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

Mitch’s Jacket
SSC-19    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

The Catalogue of Clouds
SSC-20    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

Girls’ Luncheon
SSC-21    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

Teacher and Pupil
SSC-22    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

Lessons on America
SSC-23    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

The Gift of Prophecy
SSC-24    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

The Unnamed
SSC-25    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

Hildegard von Binghamton
SSC-26    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

Weird Santa
SSC-27    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

Dark and Quiet
SSC-28    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

We, The People
SSC-29    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

Light and Dark
SSC-30    Short Story Cycles Short Story Cycle:
Café Kundalini:

Ars Gratia Artist
 

SO-01    Short Story Cycles: Six of One Short Story Cycle:
Six of One:

I’m Not Who I Was
SO-02    Short Story Cycles: Six of One Short Story Cycle:
Six of One:

A Ghost in the Attic
SO-03    Short Story Cycles: Six of One Short Story Cycle:
Six of One:

A Change of Heart
SO-04    Short Story Cycles: Six of One Short Story Cycle:
Six of One:

Photographic Memory
SO-05    Short Story Cycles: Six of One Short Story Cycle:
Six of One:

A Very Particular List
SO-06    Short Story Cycles: Six of One Short Story Cycle:
Six of One:

Half a Dozen of Another
SO-07    Short Story Cycles: Six of One Short Story Cycle:
Six of One:

Shoot Me, Jesus
SO-08    Short Story Cycles: Six of One Short Story Cycle:
Six of One:

Grandma's Soup
 

SHORT STORIES & ESSAYS

PUB-01   

Just Friends
Other Voices
Number 19 — Fall 1993

PUB-02   

The Christmas Village
Christmas Blues: Behind the Holiday Mask
Anthology — August, 1995

PUB-03   

My Advice to Young Writers
Chicago Quarterly Review
Vol. 1, No. 1 — Spring 1994

PUB-04   

Musical Theory
Karamu
Vol. 15, No. 1 — Spring 1996

PUB-05   

Revolutions
Chicago Quarterly Review
Vol. 2, No. 1 — Summer 1996
PUB-05   

Excerpts from Casa Bovina Diary
Manhattan Literary Review
Vol. 1, No. 1 — Autumn 2003

PUB-06   

The Red Dress
Blue Door Quarterly Journal
Volume 1.1 — Fall 2014

POETRY

PUB-07   

Moon of Yellow Leaves
Zig-Zag Zygurat Zyne
Issue # 3 — March, 1995

PUB-08   

Muse
Manhattan Literary Review
Vol. 1, No. 2 — Summer 2004

MUSIC

PUB-09   

Tuwaqachi: The Fourth World
Paradox Music
April, 1993

ARTWORK

PUB-10   
"Head in the Clouds"
Prophetic Voices
Number XX — March, 1994


Head in the Clouds

PUB-11   
"Ritual Fire Dance"
Chicago Quarterly Review
Volume 17 / 2014


Ritual Fire Dance

MOVIES
PUB-12   

Across Three Wildernesses
The Journey of Two Poets
2013
Mary Ellen Will, Director
Brian Allan Skinner, Editor

PUB-13   

Mildred
2015
Mary Ellen Will, Director
Brian Allan Skinner, Editor

Selected for screening at
The Beloit International Film Festival
February 24 — March 5, 2017

 
PUB-A      Published Short Fiction

The list of my Published Work at left is a partial citation of my short fiction by its title, copyright year, the name of the publication where it appeared, and the publishing information on that issue or anthology.

PUB-B      Publication Credits

The list of my Publication Credits at left cites the work number and title, its copyright year, the name of the publication where it appeared, and the publishing information on that issue or anthology. This list is more comprehensive than the one above in that it contains all my work—fiction. non-fiction, poetry, music, and artwork—that has been published in various media over the years.

 

 

                                                  
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