Sam’s latest novel, The Shame of What We Are, is forthcoming in fall 2010. For information about the book, please visit the New Door Books website or Sam’s own blog.

His other works of fiction and satire, aside from the books featured on this website, include the following:

“SoTender,” The Piker Press [online], http://www.pikerpress.com/, published in installments: February 22, March 1, and March 8, 2010.

“Two Departures,” decomP: A Literary Magazine [online], http://www.decompmagazine.com/, July 2009.

“Ranger Ringo,” Superstition Review [online], http://www.asu.edu/superstitionreview/, Issue 2 (Fall 2008).

“Dennison of the Deep,” Amarillo Bay [online], http://www.amarillobay.org/, Vol. 10, No. 4 (November 2008).

“Stupid Things,” Quay: A Journal of the Arts [online and in print], http://www.quayjournal.org/, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (July–December 2008).

“A Hole in the Sidewalk, Avoided,” Prick of the Spindle [online], http://www.prickofthe spindle.com/, Vol. 2.2 (June 2008).

“Lightheaded,” Juked [online], http://www.juked.com/, posted December 2007.

“The Shame of What We Are,” Amarillo Bay [online],  http://www.amarillobay.org/, Vol. 9, No. 2 (May 2007).

“A Liberal's Critique of Gay Marriage,” The Ethical Spectacle [online], http://www.spectacle.org/, posted November 2006.

“Onimods Defended,” The Cynic Online Magazine [online], http://www.cynicmag.com/, posted May 2006.

“A Glutton for Pain,” The Writing Site [online], http://www.writingsite.com/, posted January 2005.

“FAT: A Realistic Approach to Urban Violence,” U.S. Press News [online], http://www.uspressnews.com/, posted December 14, 2004.

“A Modified Whammy,” Passages North, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 2003), pp. 122–133.

“Weed Lake,” The Cream City Review, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Fall 2002), pp. 34–46.

“The Art of Being Rejected,” Small Press Review, Vol. 33, Nos. 7 & 8 (July–August 2001), pp. 3–4.

“A Plain Ordinary Picture,” The Long Story, No. 19 (2001), pp. 57–69.

“A Man of Passion,” Whelks Walk Review, Vol. II, No. 2 (August 1999), pp. 109–116.

“Public Art and the Homeless: A Civic Improvement Project,” Satire [online], http://www.intrepid.net/satire/, posted May 25, 1999.

“A Modest Proposition,” Affair of the Mind, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (1998), Part Two.

“After the War,” Other Voices, No. 29 (Fall/Winter 1998), pp. 72–83.

“The Airman Remembers,” Huckleberry Press, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1997), pp. 18–30.

“A Special Night with Johnny,” The Alembic, Spring 1997, pp. 166–179.

“The Sound of Commas,” American Short Fiction, Vol. 6, No. 23 (Fall 1996), pp. 69–89.

“The Animal Nature,” in A Hundred and One Nights (Philadelphia: Working Writers Group, 1994), pp. 8–23; earlier version in Great Stream Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 1989), pp. 9–29.

“The Farmer’s Tale,” Calapooya Collage 15 (August 1991), p. 9; reprinted in Dan River Anthology, 1991, ed. Richard S. Danbury, III (South Thomaston, ME: Dan River Press, 1991), pp. 104–108.

“Household Repairs,” in Free Parking, ed. M. Sklar (New York: The Spirit That Moves Us Press, 1990), pp. 74–97.

“The Witching Age,” Cimarron Review, No. 87 (April 1989), pp. 7–20.

“Martin’s Return,” WIND Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 58 (1986), pp. 48–57.

“Reunion,” Cottonwood, No. 36 (Fall 1985), pp. 55–65.

“Coulter’s Clearing,” South Dakota Review, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring 1985), pp. 75–88.

“A Child’s Affair,” Epoch, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Fall–Winter 1982), pp. 48–62.

“Randolph Hurd,” South Dakota Review, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Spring 1979), pp. 64–81.

Awards

Fiction Contest Winner, The Cream City Review, 2001

Milton Glick Award for Fiction, South Dakota Review, 1979–1980

Third Place, Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction, The Writing Site, http://www.writingsite.com/, 2004

Sam has also been at various times an honorable mentionee, a finalist, and other vaguely distinguished things, as well as the holder of three writing fellowships, the funds from which he frittered away in a truly liberal fashion.