Selected Other:
“A Conversation with William Gass.” Pleiades 21:2 (2001): 152-172.
“Fanny Hurst.” Dictionary of Missouri Biography. Eds. Lawrence O. Christensen
et al. Columbia, Mo: U of Missouri P, 2000, 415-416. Missouri Encyclopedia:
“Faulkner’s Ike Snopes: The Range of Violence.” Publications of the Missouri
Philological Association 25 (1990): 57-63.
"Passion Meets Reality." Missouri Life. (February 2017): 24-25.
“A Piece of the Streets.”Journal of Basic Writing10.1 (1991): 67-72.
“Teaching the Controversies: The Other in the Classroom” ERIC 1990. ED
318 027.
"Where Does the Truth Lie." Review of The Liars' Asylum by Jacob M. Appel. New Letters 84: 2 & 3 (2018): 179-180.
“The Zen of Tornado Survival.”New York Times OP May 8, 2003, A31.
Short stories:
“Alvie’s Landscape.” Descant 133 (2006): 93-99.
“Alvie and the Rapist.” Literal Latte 4.3 (1998): 19-20.
“An Intimate Gesture.” Short Story 5.1 (1997): 8-20.
“Awakening of Plum.” Raven Chronicles. 15.2 (2010-2011): 60-65
“Baptism.” NewTimes 16.1 (1985): 4-5, 28-19.
“Bay at the Moon.” Big Muddy 6.2 (2006): 85-91.
“Bird Woman.” The Chariton Review 20.2 (1994): 61-66.
“Bloodlines.” Cottonwood Review 29 (1982): 77-82.
“Bootheel.” Puerto del Sol 18 (1983): 23-30.
“Brute.” Zone 3 21.1 (2006): 35-54. (Zone 3 2006 Fiction Award.)
“Cora’s Letter.” Circles of Influence. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
“Cora’s Room.” Primavera 14/15 (1991): 32-39.
“Craryville Box.” South Dakota Review 22:4 (1984): 9-13.
"The Dancer's Son." descant 59 (Fall 2020): 43-51.
“Dating in America.” Passages North 24.1 (2003): 37-41.
“The Elm Witch.” After Hours 16 (1992): 23-27.
“Fragile Life.” Confrontation 108 (Fall 2010): 212-221.
“Ghosts.” Connecticut Review 22.1 (2000): 99-101.
“Going Into Battle.” Jabberwock Review 21.1: (1999): 7-23.
"His Mother." Forthcoming in Green Hills Literary Lantern.
“Jeremy.” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (March 1993) 96-100.
---. Reprinted in anthology The Deadliest Games. Ed. Janet Hutchings. New York:
Carroll & Graf, 1993. 159-164.
“Late Fall.” Icon (Spring 1994): 6-10.
“Little Garden.” Descant 106 (Ontario) (Fall 1999): 49-60.
“Madman’s Moon.” The Ogalala Review 6 (1996): 29-35.
“A Near-Perfect Gift.” Southern Humanities Review (Winter 1999): 64-77. Theodore
Christian Hoepfner Award
“Photograph of a Young Soldier.” North American Review 276.4 (1992): 28.31.
“Promise, The.” Organica: a magazine of arts & activism 23.69 (Fall 2005): 18-19, 27.
“Prowler, The." Dickinson Review. Spring 1988): 26-34.
“Pulse of the World.” Writer’s Digest 1996 Winners’ Booklet, first place literary story).
“Recovering Integrity.” The Chariton Review 28.2 (Fall 2002): 35-40.
“Redbud.” Buffalo Spree (Fall 1995): 69-73.
“Refined Rage.” (U of Southwestern Louisiana)The Chapbook 1996: 16-32.
“Rising Silence.” Hawai’i Pacific Review 24 (2010):: 77-84.
“Searching for Heroes.” Southern Indiana Review 10:1-2 (2003): 66-82.
“Signs” Notre Dame Review 24: 206-217.
“Small Courtesies.” Notre Dame Review 10 (Summer 2000): 10-24.
---Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years (2009): 370-384.
"Summer Angel." Raven's Perch (May 22, 2024): 3
“Sunday Meeting.” Farmer’s Market 10.1 (1993): 155-160.
“Sweet Angel Band.” Cimarron Review 63 (1983): 5-10.
“Swimming.” Whiskey Island Magazine (Fall 1997): 34-39.
“Tradition.” Other Voices 30 (Spring/Summer 1999): 109-121.
“The Vernacular.” The Nebraska Review 28.1 (1990): 60-70.
“Winter Snake.” Appalachian Heritage 22.4 (1994): 57-63.
“With a Change of Seasons.” CutBank 15 (1980): 63-76.