Listen here. A performance of my story on Kevin Allison’s RISK! podcast, recorded live at World’s Finest Improv for Episode #522.

The Far East: Everything Just As It Is was a publishing, performance, and arts education project funded by a San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst Award in 2012. After soliciting and workshopping true stories about San Diego’s much misunderstood East County by current and former residents, the project culminated in a limited-edition print anthology and performance […]

Originally published in Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana. Eastern Lights It was like salvation when the Chaldeans started opening up hookah shops. They knew us all by name. I’d walk through the door and into a handshake, always someone’s friend, a title fairly purchased along with a little bit of tobacco and […]

The Meek was originally published in the horror anthology, “Black Candies: Post-Apocalypse.” I later adapted it into a radio piece with the great Brian Simpson performing the main character’s role, which won the 2015 Cadoodling cross-genre arts contest. It appears on episode 5 of Listen With The Lights Off. The Meek You all lived in […]

Buy here The second volume in the Incoming series, “Sex, Drugs, and Copenhagen,” features the true stories of veterans and military family members told in their own words, straight from their own mouths, about what comes from the boredom, loneliness, and need for escapism that pervades military life. Uniquely hilarious, poignant, and bizarre, this collection […]

Buy here Incoming: Veteran Writers on Returning Home is the first in a series of anthologies featuring true stories from veterans, active duty service members, and military family members. I served as editor, as well as the head of the Veteran Writers Division from which many of the stories originated and were workshopped. “Incoming features […]

An original non-fiction story I wrote about striving to raise two boy cats knowing how easy it is for men to go wrong. Performed at So Say We All’s November 2024 Los Angeles VAMP Storytelling Showcase, “Freaky!” Recorded at The Hotel Cafe in East Hollywood.

An excerpt from a forthcoming collection, Disaster Party, about receiving a long-overdue PTSD diagnosis. Performed as part of the August 2014 VAMP Showcase, “Neighborhood Watch.” Recorded at The Whistle Stop in San Diego, CA.

Righteous Exploits is a multi-media sound, projection, and narrative performance created by Margaret Noble and Justin Hudnall. This performance work is inspired by Ann Fabian’s book, The Unvarnished Truth– a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth century. Righteous Exploits is a chronicle […]

An original story about tracking down an identity thief to hilarious and depressing results. Performed at the January 2015 VAMP Storytelling Showcase, “Crime Pays.” Recorded at The Whistle Stop in San Diego, CA.