Stories
The Last Copy
As soon as his book was published, Antonio realized that the pure vision of him that only she harbored would be shattered— and that he would do anything to keep her from reading it.
Sold
“I knew that all the things we’d gathered there so many years would be scattered and gone. All that had held it together would come apart and be gone as if it never was.”
Scars
"I don’t want any more surgeries. I just want a little art to help, to make it look a little less deformed. You know?”
Vigil
The old Bohemian hadn’t come to disturb the family on Holy Night, only to deliver an enormous, misshapen gift.
How to Win an Unwinnable War
His parents were separating, but all Sam could think about was preparing for nuclear holocaust.
Little Sister
Marla had felt she’d never really had a sister, that she’d been visited by some strange goblin or ghost. But then she went into Daddy’s bank vault after he died.
Someone I’d Like You to Meet
Veblen’s first desire had been to spring the news of her engagement on her mother. Nothing with her mother was ever simple and straightforward— and that was the thrill of it.
L’amour, CA
Isa couldn’t wait to leave the Philippines. But when we pull into an American town of foggy streets and gray, concrete houses, she looks confused, then panicked.
The Great Zero
All this—the dust, the tarantulas, the deaths—had not come naturally. “We’ve used the land wrong,” I once heard a farmer say while I spied on my father and his Communist friends.
Essays
Don’t Write What You Know
Why fiction’s narrative and emotional integrity will always transcend the literal truth
Do I Repeat Myself?
The problem of the "already said"
Alter Ego 
The 100 Greatest Quotes in 'The Wire' 
Synthetic Biology 
