Coming soon, "Every Day There is Something About Elephants"-Table of Contents, where they originally appeared and the editors

 Read the lists--did I miss anyone? Also, it's a hell of a list of Journals below, some no longer with us---but some amazing names.

Every Day There is Something About Elephants

From Big Table Books--

Flash Fiction Anthology of work published 2010 - 2018

First of all, I'd like to say, I'm very proud of this anthology. Each and every story was published either online or in print. It was seven years in the making, and spreads back before my sobriety. To think, I didn't believe I could write if I were sober, and seven years later over 100 of the 108 stories were accepted by publications and are included in Every Day There Is Something About Elephants.Also, the range of themes, and styles, within the form of flash fiction, can be found within these pages. Some of my  favorite  pieces are included, and to note:  If We Don't Think, We Will Sleep, How Penguins Break, MentalNotes about Catechism, and Iron Mike Behind Bars. 


The book also includes stories co-written with Teisha Dawn Twomey, and Elizabeth Rawlins--in a process that utilized e-mail and messenger, and sending sentences back and forth via computer.

Another fun thing is the potential of a read along aspect as it originally appeared in this blog. Each time a story was published, I blogged the "story behind the story." It included personal interactions, insights, and cheats for each piece. You can find these through the search box on here or through the google, as a former President used to say.  For example, in the original publication of the story,  Everyday There is So Much About Elephants, you will find the interview I did about it which was published in Smokelong Quarterly. Also, a year after that, there was original artwork that was published in Smokelong's Halloween issue which was inspired by that story. So enjoy.

Table of Contents

1.            Every Day There is so Much About Elephants

2.            Jack

3.            Girl With a Gun

4.            What You Dream About

5.            Continuum

6.            Mental Notes about Catechism

7.            All About Zebras in The Wild

8.            How Penguins Break

9.            Hello Iceman

10.        Tours of Duty

11.        What Are The Reasons They Hang On?

12.        This Tornado Loves You

13.        Loveville

14.        How Do You Love a Capitalist?

15.        Wedding Plans

16.        Their Own Planet

17.        Chiller

18.        Coffee Maker

19.        If We Don’t Think, We Will Sleep

20.        Who’s the Boss?

21.        The Transference of Todd and Lucy

22.        A Circus Story

23.        Aspirations

24.        Some Things You Might Not Have Realized

25.        Action Figures

26.        Becoming a Couple

27.        The Lottery Winner

28.        Absolute Goodbyes

29.        Where (in the) House

30.        Rehabilitation Will Set You Free

31.        Systematic Knowledge

32.        Clarence’s First co-author: Teisha Dawn Twomey

33.        Things About Callie

34.        Where Do You Bury The Survivors?

35.        Being Aesthetically Pleasing co-author: Teisha Dawn Twomey

36.        Simplicity is Beautiful

37.        Sometimes There are Things That Come out of the Darkness

38.        Home Invasion

39.        Fireworks

40.        Multiplicity

41.        Shooting Them Out

42.        Last Call

43.        Channeling

44.        After Receiving a Picture of Dick Butkus via Text Message Co-author: Teisha Dawn Twomey

45.        What Kids are Scared Of

46.        Unhealthy Relationship

47.        The Road Starts 896, Newark, Delaware

48.        A Little Slice Of

49.        What is in the Clouds

50.        Some Sort of Anonymous Meeting co-author: Elizabeth Rawlins

51.        Bonfire

52.        Divided

53.        Not the Stuff of Fairy Tales

54.        The Things We Have

55.        You Buy Too Much Kale

56.        They Covered the Rust Spots with Bumper Stickers

57.        The Soul Must Go On

58.        Leftovers at the Lay’s Factory

59.        Entertaining Just an Option

60.        The Old Place

61.        Closure

62.        Where Did You Come From?

63.        We Measure All This Distance in Longing 

64.        Pole

65.        The Beauty on the Inside

66.        A Dedicated Customer

67.        How It Worked For Them

68.        About a Million Punches

69.          You Deserve Someone

70.          You Have To Splice It Together

71.        Best Fiends

72.        Dear Ashley Ellen Goetz

73.        How It Went Down

74.        Act Naturally

75.        Arms Up to the Sky

76.        No Sex Since Last Spring

77.        Full Moon

78.        Eight Years Later, Charlie Goes to Omaha

79.        I Look At You Through Glass and Water

80.        About Shooting

81.        Bigger Than Charles Atlas co-author: Elizabeth Rawlins

82.        How to Give Dating Advice as a State Social Worker

83.        Sissy Spacek

84.        Tenth Frame Spare

85.        Somewhere On The Edge

86.        Grubs

87.        Twin Gets Just Desserts

88.        You, Heaven

89.        Zig Zag

90.        They Did Not Want to Know

91.        Wine and Cheese with Alexi and Natasha

92.        Pretty Flamingo

93.        Time Away

94.          No. Station

95.        The Prominent Father

96.        The Note 

97.        Interoffice Relations

98.        How She Traded Up on Damnation

99.        How He Was Left

100.    Iron Mike Behind Bars

101.    After the Afterlife

102.    A Modern Form of Disorderly Conduct 

103.    Touching All the Bases

104.    When She Missed the Ice

105.    They

106.    My Pet City

107.    Beautiful Wishes of Joy

108.    Death Pool

Some of these works or versions of these works have appeared in:

63 Channels 

Akashic Books 

Bartleby and Snopes 

Connotation Press

Crack the Spine 

Curbside Splendor 

Dogzplot 

Flash Frontier 

Fried Chicken and Coffee 

Hippo Pants 

In Between Altered States
Ink in Thirds  

JMWW 

Litsnack 

Matchbook

Men in the Company of Women Anthology 

Metazen 

Microw 6 

Monkeybicycle 

Night Train 

Oddball Magazine 

Paragraph Line

Prick of the Spindle 

Pure Slush 

RE: Telling Anthology 

Red Fez 

Right Hand Pointing 

Shalla 

Six Sentences 

Smokelong Quarterly

Suss: Another Literary Journal 

Tell Tale Inklings 

The Midway Journal

The 1 AM Project 

The Big Toe Review 

The Blue Lake Review 

The Breakwater Review 

The Cape Fear Review 

The Criterion 

The Legendary

The Santa Fe Literary Review 

The Waterhouse Review 

Thunderclap 

trnsfr magazine V 

Tuesday Shorts 

U.M.ph.! 

Uno Kudo

Unshod Quills 

Wigleaf  

Some of the Journals' Editors

Aaron Dietz, 

Alban Fischer, 

Aleathia Drehmer, 

Alicia Winski, 

Amanda Deo, 

Andrea Gregory, 

Apryl Skies, 

Barry Graham, 

Beth Thomas, 

Chad Parenteau, 

Christopher Allen, 

Cynthia Reeser, 

Dale Wisely, 

Dan Tricarico, 

Dena Rash Guzman, 

Dr. Vishwanath Bite, 

Edward Mullany, 

Frank Hinton, 

Gavin Broom, 

Glen Feulner, 

Grace Black, 

Jason Wright, 

Jeff Callico, 

Jen Michalski , 

Jessa Marsh, 

Jim Parks,

John Sharp, 

Jon Konrath, 

Joshua Michael Stewart, 

Katie Moore, 

Kerri Farrell Foley, 

Leah Angstrom, 

Leopold McGinnis, 

Matt Potter, 

Meg Tuite 

Melissa Studdard, 

Michael Solender, 

Michelle Elvy, 

Mignon Ariel King, 

Mitchell Waldman, 

Nathaniel Tower , 

Nicolle Elizabeth, 

Ralph Pennel, 

Robert McEvily, 

Robert Vaughn, 

Rusty Barnes, 

Scott Garson, 

Shalla DeGuzman, 

Shya Scanlon, 

Stefan Kiesbuy, 

Steven Seighman, 

Susannah Lawrence, 

Tara Laskowski , 

Wendy Ellis, 

and William Walsh.