Read David’s Work Online
Fiction
- Over My Shoulder
- Don’t look back. Really–don’t look back.
- Tears in the Sea
Poetry
- Gilgamesh (What the Sumerians Seem to Have Missed)
- In the words of the editors: “Where has this poem been all our lives? If reading Sumerian myth has been on your to-do list but you’ve never gotten around to it, start here — after feasting on this work we think you’ll seek out the source material without delay.”
- The Decline of the Beat Poets
- Or, if you have a real emergency, / you can call, and a poet will come to your house / and talk about himself for half an hour.”
- My Last Seattle Poem (the Beginning of Landscape)
- Morning is like a foreign country: no one I know is there.
- Earth Day
- From Aria Kalsan Anthology: Mysteries of the Future. Worlds-weary traveler Kaia MareImbrium finds solace when very far from home.
- increments
- A modern ghazal: one man’s longing for a faraway love, expressed in snapshots of the universe, from near and far.
Satire
- Zen Fundamentalist Kills Parents on Road
- This is the version that appeared in The Cynic. A different version appeared previously in The Wittenburg Door under the title “The Fundamentalists Next Door.”
- Closed-Minded People Protest Their Portrayal in Harry Potter Books
- The real reason Harry Potter has so many people upset. Originally published in And How! Site contains some gratuitous profanity
- Gay Marriages Threaten…Um…Something, Probably
- I’ve never heard a sensible argument against same-sex marriage…here are a few of the senseless ones. (PDF opens in new window.) Originally published in The Wittenburg Door.
- Index of my work in The Cynic and The FarceHaven Tribune
- From The Wittenburg Door Online
- Judges Protest Activism by Chaining Selves to Bench
- Justice Roy Moore Posts Ten Commandments of Driving
- Religion Not a Factor in Islam Deportation
- Note that the “Islam” in the title is Yusuf Islam, or the artist formerly known as Cat. To the best of my knowledge, there is no record of any nation trying to deport the whole religion–not since the Spanish Inquisition, anyway
