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Books
            Private Acts.  (Short Story Collection).  Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1990.
            Jack's Universe.  (Novel).  Chicago: Another Chicago Press, 1994.

            Imagine a Moment.  (Fiction Chapbook).  Meadow Press (Iowa City), 1976.

Stories, Essays in Journals:         
"Bingham's Orchard," Creative Writing (January 1973); 1, 14-18.
"For the Child," Samovar, 1, no. 1 (Spring 1973); 23-26.
"Q," New Writers, nos. 1/2 (1974); 83-89.
"Solitary," Denver Quarterly, 9, no. 3 (Fall 1974); 46-54.
"Circa 1918," Fiction International, 4, no 5 (1975); 31-34.
"Saturday Night Special," Samovar, 3 (Spring 1975); 75-82.
"The Pattern in the Blanket," Chicago Review, 28, no. 2 (Fall 1976); 65-77.
"The Dream of Childhood," Iowa Review, 8, no. 2 (Spring 1977); 45-49.

"The Violent Inheritance," Crazy Horse, no. 20 (Spring 1980); 96-100.
"The Dispossessed Children," The Antioch Review, 39, no. 1 (Winter 1981); 84-89.
"The Man at the Window," Adena, 6, no. 1 (Spring 1981); 32-44.
"The Fox, or The Master Thief," Ball State University Forum, 22, no. 2 (Spring 1981); 11-29.
"A Dealer in Antiques," Chelsea, no. 40 (Fall 1981); 160-66.
"Beginnings," The Georgia Review, 36, no. 4 (Winter 1982); 733-751. 
"Rudolph," Our Town: Akron, no. 2 (Spring 1984). 
"Mean and Sweet,” The Chariton Review, 11, no. 2 (Fall 1985); 112-119.
"The Recital," The Black Warrior Review, 13, no. 2 (Spring 1987); 9-24.
"Flip Cards," The Georgia Review, XLI, no. 2 (Summer 1987); 315-331.
"Flip Cards," The Pushcart Prize, XIII, (1988/1989); 408-425.
"Private Collection," In Earnest, I, no. 2 (Spring 1988), 22-30.
"Miss Jones," Gambit Magazine, no. 22 (Fall 1988); 35-43.
"Friends of a Stranger," The Missouri Review, XII, no. 1 (Spring 1989); 183-196.
"Lucky Bob," Akron, III, no. 4 (Summer 1989); 20-24.

"From the Corners of Our Eyes," Writers' Digest, (October 1991); 65, 71, 79, 80.
"The African Roses," Magic Realism, IV, no. 2 (Fall 1995); 14-23.
"Reservation Road," Pleiades, 16, no. 2 (Spring 1996), 46-62.
“Edwina Sixinella Says,” Eratica 3, no. 4 (Fall 1998), pp. 8-11.
“What Did We Do before Computers,” Eclectic Literary Forum, 8, nos. ¾ (Fall 1998), p.19. 
“The Night We Found Jack Frost,” Beacon Magazine, Dec. 19, 1999, pp. 4-8, 13.

“Look Into My Eyes,” Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 18, no. 2 (Spring 2001); pp. 16-19. 
“Lizard Brain,” Rubber City, I, no. 1 (Fall 20010; pp. 23-31.
“Tuxedo Bird Spring,” Margin: Exploring Magical Realism (summer 2002), 
               http—www.MAGICALREALISM.com
“Dimensionality,” North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 69, no. 1 (Winter 2002), pp. 150-155.
“Uniforms,” Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol., 20, no. 3 (Summer 200), pp. 65-68).
“Number Nine,” Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 19, no. 3 (Summer 2002), pp. 46-50.
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“The Meaning of Poetry,” Elysian Fields Quarterly, Vol. 21, no. 1 (Winter 2004), pp. 31-35.
“The Destruction of Professor Spark,” Heartlands, Vol. 3 (Fall 2005), pp. 61-65.
“Faces of Fiction,” North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 73, nos. 1 &2 (Winter & Spring 2006), pp.    
197-203.   
“Green’s History,” Texas Review, Vol. 27, nos. 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 2006), pp. 91-106.     
“Where Faith Went,” Whiskey Island Magazine, #53, pp. 47-63.

“American Boy,” [story] Kenyon Review, Vol. XXXIII, Number 3 (summer 2011), pp. 139-146.
“Our Little Girl,” [flash] Blip Magazine [now New World Writing] (fall 2011),
              http://blipmagazine.net.
“Death Mask, 1946,” [flash] Camera Obscura, Vol. 4 (Vernal 2012), pp. 96-97
“Shirts and Skins,” [CN] Shadowbox Magazine, Volume Five, Issue 5 (Summer 2012)
              http://shadowboxmagazine.org/
“What I Know about Denise,” [novella] The Conium Review, Vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall 2012), pp. 107-
              162.
“Stick Figures,” [story] Muscle & Blood, Issue 3 (summer 2012), pp. 11-18.
“Take Five,” [CN] The Fiddleback, Volume 2, Issue 6, 2012, http://thefiddleback.com/
“The Year Halloween Fell on a Thursday,” [flash] Steam Ticket, Vol. 15 (2012), pp. 26-18.
“The Lonesome Alien,” “Shape Shifter,” [flash] Flash in the Attic, Vol. 1 (2013), pp. 74-80.
“Killers,” [story] Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 31. No. 1 & 2 (Spring and Summer 2014), pp.
                60-73.
“Naturalized Citizen,” [flash] Flyover Country,               
“She’s Not There,” [story] Temenos, (Spring 2015), pp. 34-41.
“Naked Dancing, with Knives, Or, (Not) Writing a First Novel,” [CN] The Flexible Persona,
               Issue 2.20 (2015), http://www.theflexiblepersona.com/#!issue-220/c1wyw
“After the Landing,” UnBuild Walls, Issue (Halloween 2015), http://unbuildwallsjournal.com/
“Mermaids,” [story] UnCommon Bodies (2015, Fighting Monkey Press), pp. 59-67.
“Birds of Thunder,” [story] Two Thirds North (2016, Stockholm University & Cinnamon
             Press), pp. 59-73.
“The Hungers,” [story] Dark Lane Anthology III, (2016, Tim Jeffries’ Dark Lane Anthologies),
              pp. 169-180
“Shutterbug,” [story] Chicago Literati (November, 2016),
“Schumacher’s Elves,” “Festus,” “Nothing Is Perfect,” [story, 2 flash] Rubbertop Review,
              Issue 8 (2016), pp. 44-59.
“Speaking for Myself,” [flash] Chicago Literati (December, 2016),
“Resolutions,” [flash] Mondays Are Murder (December 2016, Akashic Books),
              http://www.akashicbooks.com/resolutions-by-robert-pope/
“The Detective’s Son,” [story] Dark Lane Anthology IV, (2017, Tim Jeffries Dark Lane
              Anthologies), pp. 160-177.
“Mountain Woman,” [story] Selected Places: anthology of short stories (May 2017, Simone
              Press), pp 206-218.
“In Dreams, Reality,” [essay] Fiction Southeast (May 2016),
“I am Called Mystery,” [story] Dark Lane Anthology V, (July 2017, Tim Jeffries Dark Lane
              Anthologies), pp. 46-62.
“Security System,” [story] Fiction International, Issue 50: (November 2017), pp. 126-130.
“In Dreams, Reality,” [essay] Fiction Southeast (August 2017),











 






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