Publications
Books
Unashamed Observations
Unsolicited Press · 2024 — A Collection of Prose Poems
Unashamed Observations contains prose poems about my experiences living in Japan, driving a taxi in New York City, growing up in an orphanage in Pennsylvania, detailing my contact with animals on a dairy farm along with the many men and women that I have met. The poems draw out those idiosyncrasies I have experienced, whether it be a moment of cruelty on a bus in Japan, my response to an orange on a table, the relationship of a hemophiliac to his condition, the shocking reply to someone's politeness, or my experience towards an amputee sitting before me on a Japanese train. These are the first five poems in the collection. There are 105 remaining poems.
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Blind Insights into the Writing Process
Fomite Press · 2022 — Prose poems and epigrams
Oedipus's vision starts blind. A book on writing suggesting anything else is imposed, a handbook of techniques unlike these epigrams and prose poems that are essentially beyond the writer, just as the creative process is, if they are honest, beyond anyone. Blind Insights into the Writing Process is a book of sightings outside the terrestrial landscape of everyday vision that as rich as it is often gets in the way of true access. These insights came about without conscious calculation, almost beyond effort; they are the result of blind, unashamed reaching.
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Crawl Space and Other Stories of Limited Maneuverability
Unsolicited Press · 2021 — A Collection of 31 Stories
Crawl Space and Other Stories of Limited Maneuverability is a collection of stories about the fallout from limited maneuverability, whether it be the horror inside the walls of a New York City apartment, the firing of a professor on a college campus, bullying in the basement of an orphanage, the restraint a father feels reaching out to touch a youth, the confinement inside jockey underwear, the consolation of a typewriter over an unreported violence, an actual hanging by boys after a church service, the fatal end of a patient's world following a hospital miracle, the shyness of a classical pianist breached by a man named Ray Rice, the drama inside a Madrid bullring, the consequences of an old man's collapse at a urinal in Yokohama, the rejection of the vegetarian Cain by God, the torment of a pelican under a bridge in Mexico, Presidents' shooting bears or obsessing about scratches on a cherry table, a preoccupation with curtains when preparing for a visitor, how a house full of knickknacks replaces people, the power of beets exposing sibling rivalry, a predicted automobile accident enlarging the stunted lives of two lovers, the claustrophobia over a book of Matisse art, the triumph after the modest boasts of an actual stuntman, the recollections of a stubborn liver in a frying pan, the weekly ritual of Pop paddling young boys, a pearl family's revenge for the horrors of World War II, the secret life of a British aesthete in Japan, and the results of reduced mobility inside an actual crawl space.
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The Horror of the Ordinary
Unsolicited Press · 2019 — A Collection of 23 Short Stories
The Horror of the Ordinary deals with life through the eyes of diverse characters and stories. As you dive into the short story collection, you'll meet a property owner dealing with an infestation of Japanese beetles in his backyard, a too-tall Afghan named Hamid, a trophy huntiing orthodonist not prepared to deal with his actions, and many others. As you dive deeper into the collection, things get weirder, more out of the ordinary. From the unexpected tragedy of a Japanese pitcher's performance in American baseball to disturbing thoughts about an alligator watchband, every story provokes. Every story incites.
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Eye Exams: A Book of Epigrams
Propertius Press · 2019 — Barnes & Noble Nook, February 4, 2018
Epigrams can be stabs at thought, sudden insights, or summations of a life. The fact that they don't parade in the best dress gives freedom to all types of garb; even so, occasional nakedness is exposed. Ultimately writing epigrams exposes the reader as well as the writer, and by extension all human nature -- broadening our observations of the species. The sole object is understanding.
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Optical Biases: Epigrams
EyeCorner Press (Denmark) · 2012 — A Collection of Epigrams
OPTICAL BIASES is a collection of original epigrams. Each epigram is carefully culled, has a twist or edge, and is included as an aesthetic whole. They are readable. They are clear. They don't require head scratching. Though they might not be read in a sitting, a reader would easily want to go through them once started. There is humor and no fillers are intended. Overall the collection shows a way of looking, despite the writer's own optical biases. Meaning and insight are the objects throughout. Areas that are addressed include intelligence, love, women, beauty, sex, cruelty, loneliness, friendship, talent and ambition, family, religion, and power.
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Studies in Insignificance
Livingston Press, The University of West Alabama · 2003 — A Collection of 30 Stories
Richard Krause has delineated, in fine detail and meticulous writing, the disconcerting strains underlying all humanity, sometimes by focusing on abandoned children, sometimes on sexual nuances, and sometimes on the lingering effect of World War II and its atrocities. Krause taught in Japan for several years; he also worked as a taxi driver in New York City for several years: oddly, those disparate occupations forge a finely hammered toughness into this collection, giving the reader plenty of quirky, desperate characters presented in a melodious, poetic fashion. Imagine, for instance, Baudelaire writing fiction—though you would need to add a tongue-in-cheek voice continually pulling the story back to offer perspective. The stories in this collection have been published in Hawaii Review, American Writing, The Crescent Review, Kansas Quarterly Confrontation, and other literary magazines.
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"Carousel"
Every Day Fiction
February 6, 2026 • Story
"Three Aluminum Cans"
Brief Wilderness
August 8, 2024 • Story
"Britisher Meets Hong Kong Girl"
Discretionary Love
May 31, 2024 • Story
"Plant"
Call Me (Brackets)
Issue 12, May 20, 2024 • Story
"Reading Your Writing in New Jersey"
Teach
April 1, 2024 • Story
"Mr. A"
Stickman Review
Volume 22 Number 1, September 6, 2023 • Story
"The Polyglot"
The Font
September 2023 • Story
"Rusty"
DarkWinter Literary Magazine
May 25, 2023 • Story
"Dragonflies and Galen"
Unlikely Stories Mark V
January 1–7, 2023 • Stories
"Literature as Seduction"
Modern Literature (India)
December 18, 2022 • Nonfiction Story
"Ants"
Modern Literature (India)
December 1, 2022 • Fiction
"Exposure"
Suddenly Without Warning
October 25, 2022 • Short
"Bathing"
The Raven Review
Summer Issue 2022 • Story
"His Book"
Blue Lake Review
September 1, Issue 2021 • Flash Fiction
"Art"
Eunoia Review (Singapore)
August 2021 • Novella
"A Split Mind Is Convenient to Hide the Axe"
The Five-Two
June 21–27, 2021 • Short
"The Paddle"
Northwest Indiana Literal Journal
June 6, 2021 • Story
"Community College"
Mobius, The Journal of Social Change
Vol. 32 No. 1, Spring 2021 • Flash Fiction
"Penn State"
Digging Through the Fat
Flash No. 22, 2021 • Short
"The Liver"
Headway Quarterly
Digital Issue #7: The Food Issue, 2020 • Story
"Teeth"
Menacing Hedge
Spring/Summer 2020 • Prose Poem
"Insight into Myself"
Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry
The Truth/Y Issue, Volume XI, Spring 2020 • Prose Poem
"Japanese"
Club Plum Literary Journal
Vol. 1 Issue 4, 2020 • Flash Fiction
"An Amputee"
Triggerfish Critical Review
Issue 24, 2020 • Prose Poem
"Jockey Underwear"
GNU Journal
2020 • Story
"Beets"
Umbrella Factory Magazine
Issue 40, 2020 • Story
"Birds in Cages"
Shot Glass Journal
January 2020 • Prose Poem
"The Hand"
The Books That Correspond to the Memory / Poesis (Romania)
Year III Number 9, January 2020 • Prose Poems
"The Handkerchief"
Red Savina Review
Vol. 3 Issue 2, 2019 • Story
"Raising Cain"
Dodging the Rain (Galway, Ireland)
February 1, 2019 • Story
"Nails, An Ugly Sounding Name"
Offcourse
Issue 75, December 2018 • Prose Poems
"Hawking"
Flash Fiction Magazine
October 15, 2018 • Story
"Urban Tales"
Scarlet Leaf Review (Toronto)
September 2018 • Story
"People Pry, Tea Ceremony, Talent"
The Courtship of Winds
Summer Issue 2018 • Prose Poems
"A Piano Story"
Subtle Fiction (New Zealand)
March 26, 2018 • Story
"Another Zoo Story"
EXPOUND (Nigeria)
Issue 11, September 2017 • Story
"Baseball"
Cold Creek Review
Issue 3, 2017 • Story
"The Firing of the Music Teacher"
ink&coda
Issue 4.2, Summer 2017 • Story
"The Splinter"
Hackwriters Magazine (England)
March 2017 • Story
"Hamid, the Water Carrier"
Indiana Voice Journal
Issue 28, November 2016 • Story
"The Tension of Suspenders"
Indiana Voice Journal
Issue 27, October 2016 • Story
"The Watchband"
Brilliant Flash Fiction (Ireland)
Issue 11, September 2016 • Story
"Out of State Plates, or Decapitation 101"
Scarlet Leaf Review (Toronto)
September 2016 • Story
"The Coat"
The Oddville Press (London)
Vol. 5 Issue 40, Summer 2016 • Story
"The Untold Story of the Awaji Puppet Master"
Eastlit (Japan)
June 2016 • Story
"Vermont Winter"
Turks Head Review
March 2016 • Prose Poem
"Irving"
The Scapegoat Review
Spring 2015 • Prose Poem
"The Child Molester"
Red Savina Review
Vol. 3 Issue 2, 2015 • Story
"Crossing State Lines"
J Journal
Volume 7 No. 2, Fall 2014 • Story
"Books"
quarrtsiluni
"Books," October 2012 • Prose Poem
"Epigrams"
aforisticamente
June 2012 • Seventy Epigrams translated into Italian • International website for aphorists; twelve from the United States
"Epigrams"
Hotel America
Volume 90 Number 2, Spring 2011 • Ten Epigrams • Aphorisms Issue
"The Betrayal"
The Long Story
No. 29, 2011 • Story
"Shorts"
Fraglit Magazine
Issue 7 ("Solitude"), Fall 2010 • Epigram
"Gregor"
J Journal
Vol. 3 No. 1, Spring 2010 • Story
"The Alumnus of the Year"
The Alembic
2010 • Story
"Epigrams"
Fraglit Magazine
Issue 3 ("Philosophical Notebooks"), Summer 2008 • Seventy Epigrams
"Spoons"
The Heartland Review
Vol. VI Number 1, 2005 • Story
"The Door"
The Love Book (Collages & Bricolages)
2002 • Story • Reprinted
"The Dwarf"
Thin Air
Vol. VI No. 2, 2001 • Story
"The Door"
American Writing
21, 2001 • Story
"The Trick Is"
The Prose Poem: An International Journal
Vol. 7, 1998 • Prose Poem
"Hands"
Ellipsis
Vol. 33 No. 2, Spring 1997 • Story
"Shoe Polish"
American Writing
14, 1997 • Story
"Onnagata"
Japanophile
Vol. 20 No. 4, Fall 1996 • Story • First Prize, 1996 Japanophile Short Story Contest
"Taro"
Hawaii Review
Vol. 19.3, 1995 • Story
"The Eye"
Mind in Motion
Summer Issue 34, 1994 • Story
"Toothpaste"
Painted Bride Quarterly
Double Issue 53/54, Summer 1994 • Story • Second Place, 1994 Painted Bride Quarterly Fiction Contest
"Selected Epigrams"
Asylum Annual
Vol. 9, 1994 • Epigrams
"Another Water Ritual"
Nexus
Vol. 28 Issue 2, 1993 • Story
"Waiting"
Wind
Vol. 23 No. 72, 1993 • Story
"Coccyx"
Onionhead
October 1992 • Story
"Mouth"
Asylum
Vol. 7 No. 3&4, 1992 • Story
"Pigeons"
Kentucky Writing
Vol. 6 No. 2, Spring/Summer 1991 • Story
"Shower"
Confrontation
No. 37–38, 1988 • Story
"Four Prose Poems"
American Poetry Review
Vol. 16 No. 4, July/August 1987 • Prose Poems
"Politeness, A Letter"
Aura
19, Fall 1985 • Prose Poems
"A Study in Insignificance"
Kansas Quarterly
Vol. 17 Nos. 1–2, Winter/Spring 1985 • Story
"The Curtains"
Descant
Vol. XXIX No. 1, Fall/Winter 1984–1985 • Story
"Benares"
Waves
Vol. 12 No. 2&3, Winter 1984 • Story
"Isn't It Because"
California Quarterly
No. 25, Fall 1984 • Prose
"He"
Touchstone
Vol. IX No. 3, 1984 • Story
"Writing"
Wisconsin Review
Vol. XVI No. 3, October 1982 • Prose
"Finger & Others"
Waves
Vol. 10 No. 4, Spring 1982 • Epigrams
"The Nose"
Prism
Vol. 20 No. 1, Autumn 1981 • Story
"Selected Epigrams"
Portland Review
Vol. 27 No. 1, Fall/Winter 1981 • Epigrams
"The Brown Shirt"
The Crescent Review
Vol. 17 No. 1 • Story • Accepted for publication