Publications
Unashamed Observations
Unsolicited Press Publication
Publication Date: August 2024
Unashamed Observations is a collection of 110 prose poems. The poems address living for nine years in Japan, traveling in the Far East, driving a taxi for five years in New York City, growing up in the Bronx, and living for seven years in an orphanage in Pennsylvania. They include poems about relationships with animals, books, and body parts, and record the depth of experiences with the men and women I have met.
Blind Insights Into the Writing Process
Fomite Press
Publication Date: February 2022
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.
Crawl Space & Other Stories of Limited Maneuverability
Unsolicited Press Publication
Publication Date: October 31, 2021
Crawl Space and Other Stories of Limited Maneuverability addresses how the problems of space reveal disturbing aspects of human nature. It uncovers their realities in city apartments, college campuses, the basements of orphanages, under bridges in Mexico, through miracles in hospital rooms, inside a bullring, at urinals, in the closed world of a Biblical drama, in high chairs, inside the lives of a pearl family, and in the actual crawl space underneath a wood frame house. These are stories that their author had little choice but to write.
Eye Exams
A Collection of Epigrams by Propertius Press Paperback Publication May 2019
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.
The Horror of the Ordinary
Stories by Unsolicited Press Publication March 2019
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 hunting 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.
Optical Biases
A Collection of Epigrams by Eyecorner Press (An academic press in Denmark) 2012
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.
Studies in Insignificance
(A Collection of Stories) by Livingston Press at The University of West Alabama 2003
These stories tantalize by bordering the darker sides of human sexuality. In exploring these darker venues, Krause has been able to illuminate humanity in general – through fleeting forays into cruelty and revenge, or, say, uncertainty and masochism. You will find stories ranging from a man falling into an increasingly bizarre relationship with a German couple in their country home (“The Brown Shirt”), to a Japanese man who cannot rid himself of the childhood memory of spying on a pair making violent love (“Taro”), to an orphan intrigued by shoes (“Shoe Polish”). All of Krause’s characters share obsession, and while their obsessions may seem “insignificant” to outsiders, they reflect not so insignificant political and religious obsessions that have recently and historically caused so much global harm.
Magazine Publications
“Plant” Call Me (Brackets) Issue 12 May 2024
“Reading Your Writing in New Jersey” Teach. Write. April 20, 2024 (Flash Fiction)
“The Polyglot” The Font September 2023 (Flash Fiction)
“Mr. A” Stickman Review 6/5/23 (Flash Fiction)
“Rusty” Dark Winter Magazine 5/25/23 (Flash Fiction)
“Dragonflies” and “Galen” Unlikely Stories Mark V January 1 – 7, 2023 (Flash Fiction)
“Literature as Seduction” Modern Literature (India) December 18, 2022 (Nonfiction Story)
“Ants” Modern Literature (India) December 1, 2022 (Flash Fiction)
“Exposure” Suddenly Without Words 10/25/22 (Flash Fiction)
“Bathing” The Raven Review Summer Issue 2022 (Flash Fiction)
“Penn State” Digging through the Fat Flash No. 22 2021 (Flash Fiction)
“His Book” Blue Lake Review September 1st Issue 2021 (Flash Fiction)
Art Eunoia Review Upcoming August 2021 (Novella) Singapore
“The Orphanage” Upcoming July/August 2021 Journal of Expressive Writing (Sixteen Epigrams/Shorts)
“A Split Mind Is Convenient to Hide the Axe” The Five-Two Crime Poetry Weekly June 21-27 2021 (Prose Poem)
“The Paddle” Northwest Indiana Literary Journal June 6, 2021 (Story)
“Community College” Mobius The Journal of Social Change Vol. 32 No. 1 Spring 2021 (Flash Fiction)
“The Liver” Headway Quarterly Digital Issue #7: “The Food Issue” 2020 (Story)
“Insight into Myself” Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry The Truth/Y Issue Volume XI Spring 2020 (Prose Poem)
“Teeth” Menacing Hedge Spring/Summer 2020 (Prose Poem)
“Japanese” for “On Being 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 (Story) 2020
“Beets” Umbrella Factory Magazine Issue 40 2020 (Story)
“Birds in Cages” Shot Glass Journal Issue 30 January 2020 (Prose Poem)
“The Hand” “The Books That Correspond to the Memory” Poesis Year III Number 9 January 2020 (Prose Poems) (Romania)
“The Handkerchief” Red Savina Review Vol.3 Issue 2 2019 (Story)
“Raising Cain” Dodging the Rain February 1, 2019 (Story) (Galway, Ireland)
“Urban Tales” Scarlet Leaf Review September 2018 (Story) (Toronto)
“People Pry,” “Tea Ceremony,” “Talent” The Courtship of Winds Summer Issue 2018 (Prose Poems)
“A Piano Story” Subtle Fiction March 26, 2018 (Story) (New Zealand)
“Another Zoo Story” EXPOUND Issue 11 September 2017 (Story) (Nigeria)
“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 March 2017 (Story) (England)
“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 Issue 11 September 2016 (Story) (Ireland)
“Out of State Plates, or Decapitation 101” Scarlet Leaf Review September 2016 (Story) (Toronto)
“The Coat” The Oddville Press Vol. 5 Issue 40 Summer 2016 (Story) (London)
“The Untold Story of the Awaji Puppet Master” Eastlit June 2016 (Story) (East and South East Asia)
“Vermont Winter” Turk’s Head Review March 2016 (Prose Poem)
“Irving” The Scapegoat Review Spring 2015 (Prose Poem)
“Crossing State Lines” J Journal Volume 7 No. 2 Fall 2014 (Story)
“Books” quarrtsiluni “Books” October 2012 (Prose Poem)
“Epigrams” aforisticamente (An international website for aphorists. Eleven are from the United States.) June 2012 (Seventy Epigrams translated into Italian)
“Epigrams” Hotel America Volume 90 Number 2 Spring 2011 “Aphorisms Issue” (Ten Epigrams)
“The Betrayal” The Long Story No. 29 2011 (Story)
“Gregor” J Journal Vol. 3, No.1 Spring 2010 (Story)
“The Alumnus of the Year” The Alembic 2010 (Story)
“Shorts” Issue 7 (“Solitude”) Fraglit Magazine Fall 2010
“Epigrams” Issue 3 (“Philosophical Notebooks”) Fraglit Magazine Summer 2008 (Seventy Epigrams)
“Spoons” The Heartland Review Vol. VI Number 1 2005 (Story)
“The Dwarf” Thin Air Vol.VI No. 2 2001 (Story)
“The Door” American Writing 21 2001 (Story)
“The Door” Reprinted in The Love Book (by Collages & Bricolages) 2002
“The Trick Is” The Prose Poem: An International Journal Vol. 7 1998
“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) (Received First Prize in the 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 (Received Second Place in 1994 Painted Bride Quarterly Fiction Contest)
“Selected Epigrams” Asylum Annual Vol. 9 1994
“Another Water Ritual” Nexus Vol. 28 Issue 2 1993 (Story)
“Waiting” Wind Vol. 23 No. 72 1993 (Story)
“Mouth” Asylum Vol. 7 No. 3&4 1992 (Story)
“Coccyx” Onionhead October 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
“Politeness,” “A Letter” Aura 19 Fall 1985 (Prose Poems)
“A Study in Insignificance” Kansas Quarterly Vol. 17 Nos.1-2Winter/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)(Toronto)
“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)(Toronto)
“The Nose” Prism Vol. 20 No.l Autumn 1981 (Story)(Canada)
“Selected Epigrams” Portland Review Vol. 27 No.l Fall/Winter 1981
“The Brown Shirt” The Crescent Review Vol. 17 No.1 (Fiction) Accepted for publication