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E Flat 
Blue Lake Review
The Ghoet in the Tavern 
 The Lowestoft Chronicle
King of the Idiots 
​Johnny America
​Lou’s Cows 
​The Courtship of Winds
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Print

Monograph | The Hudson Review
​Ways of Wanting | Alaska Quarterly Review 
​Arch of Flowers | The Hudson Review
Book Words | The Hudson Review
​Steps | The Hudson Review
​Stiff | The Hudson Review
A Manual of Adjectives | The Hudson Review
​Head Wound | Jelly Bucket
​Ways of Wanting | Alaska Quarterly Review
Dragoman | The Hudson Review
​Sixto in Late Light | The Hudson Review
​Potatoes | Cherry Tree
​Billyknuckles | The Hudson Review
Eulogy | Levee Magazine
Weed | Pennsylvania Literary Journal
The Sergeant's Sister | The Hudson Review
The Harp in the Cellar | Delmarva Review
Death Eye | The Hudson Review
​Ramp | Alaska Quarterly Review ​​
Bootlegger Hill | Black Dandy
Tree of Death | Pembroke Magazine
Bear's Change | The Hudson Review
Getting Out | Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet
In the Valley | Main Street Rag Magazine
Bird Island | F(r)iction
Place of Rest | The Hudson Review
Other Men's Fields | The Hudson Review
Grandfather John Hotel Amerika
Stockpiling Twinkies | The Meadow
Crux |Sawmill
The Summer of Paying Attention | Southern Humanities Review
Sid is Alone | Hotel Amerika
The Bull You See, The Bull You Don't | Playboy
A Lie You'll Never Tell | Alaska Quarterly Review
Paint | Southern Humanities Review
Romeo Jones’ Humane Method of Killing a Turkey | Briar Cliff Review
Tell Us Where the Cows Are | Blue Moon Literary and Art Review
Eat the Shark | daho Review
Snow Beers |The Kenyon Review
Long About August |Indiana Review
Reading the Cup | Border Crossing
The Old Mexican Consulate | South Dakota Review
Last Word | The Idaho Review
Loss Leader | Southern Humanities Review
Accidental Sighting | Southern Humanities Review
An Absence of Snow | daho Review
Dog in the Hole | Idaho Review
Tools | Licking River Review
Perfect Rush | The Southwest Review
How Birds Communicate | The Iowa Review
Dog Love & Beyond | Louisiana Literature
Spring Cleaning | Webster Review
The Ballad of Tony Nail | Crucible
Deer | Crucible
Old Sneakers and the Idea of No | Pig Iron
Love in the Gash | Pikeville Review
The Question | Pig Iron
Stone Cowboy on the High Plains | Atlantic Monthly
The Significance of Doing | Farmer’s Market
Down in Paraguay | Buffalo Spree Magazine
Sixto in Harvest | Farmer’s Market
The Senator’s Left Eye | Crucible
Act of Contrition | Buffalo Spree Magazine
The Necessary Plane |The Sun
The Albino Pheasant | Kiosk
Eusebio’s Spaniard | Buffalo Spree
Little Bird’s Indian | Farmer’s Market
The Murder of German Morales | Nebraska Review
A Father’s Tale | Buffalo Spree
The Agent | Webster Review
Susy’s Lucy and the Big Dream Parrot | International Quarterly
Lover’s Leap | North Dakota Quarterly
101 on the Edge | Buffalo Spree Magazine
How the World Began, For Real | Kiosk
The Spam Letters | Owen Wister Review
Endchase | Buffalo Spree
Perfect Crime | Buffalo Spree
Morality Play | The Journal
Planting the Flag | New Delta Review
Solidarity in Green | The Southern Review
Fool’s Progress | Red Cedar Review
Me, the Horseman | Kiosk
The Egg Queen Rises | Buffalo Spree; anthologized in Living on the Edge, an anthology published by Curbstone Press, 1999
The Rape of Reason | North Dakota Quarterly
Heart | Nebraska Review
The Lifestyle Implants Caper | Beloit Fiction Review
Mengele Dies Again | The American Literary Review
Amelia Questing |The Belletrist Review
Virtually Yours |The Southwest Review
The Way Grass Can Smell | New Delta Review
Consular Affair | New Letters
You and Me and the New Me | North Dakota Quarterly
After the War Was Over | The Southern Review
Dove of the Back Streets | Kenyon Review
Malaria | The Southern Review
Looking for Lourdes | The American Literary Review
Confidence in Izmir | The Southwest Review
Two Dead Indians | Kiosk
The Liberation of Little Heaven | The American Literary Review
Uncle Joe's Old Time Communist Nostalgia Bar | The Southern Review
In the City of X | The Southern Review
The Real Reason I Went to Nicaragua | The Nebraska Review
Mysterious Way | North Dakota Quarterly
Cholera | Crab Orchard Review
The Acrobat's Wife | The American Literary Review
In Vienna, In Glass | The Southern Review
Meat Eater | Green Mountains Review
White Cloud | The Southern Review
The Woman Who Couldn't Sleep | The Nebraska Review
Spanish Summer | North Dakota Quarterly
Thirsty Deer | South West Review
Shooting to Kill | American Literary Review
Witness Protection | Southern Review
Churoquella | Green Hills Literary Lantern

Online

E Flat | Blue Lake Review
​The Ghoet in the Tavern | The Lowestoft Chronicle
​Lou’s Cows | The Courtship of Winds
​King of the Idiots | Johnny America
Certeza | Evergreen Review
​​Note to Self | Blue Mountain Review
The Paradigm Repair Shop | Painted Bride Quarterly
Death of a Chicken | Lowestoft Chronicle
The Temptation of Celeste Azul | Lowsoft Chronicle
A Little More About Birds | Fictive Dream
The King's Horses | Blue Lake Review
The Cairn Builder | Glint Literary Magazine
​In the Canyon | Johnny America
Closing Up | Fictive Dream
In the Shadow  | Smoky Blue
​In Another City | The Lowestoft Chronicle
Sleepy Jesus | Change Seven
Sharp Knives | Lowestoft Chronicle
​Twenty one Duck Salute | Johnny America
Dinner & Heartbreak | Steam Tickett
​Some Things I Remember | The Lowestoft Chronicle
​The Glamour | Evergreen Review
​
The Glamour | republished in Peace Corps Worldwide
Manolo Took My Phone | Lowestoft Chronicle
Note to Self | Blue Mountain Review
Script | Johnny America
Glimpses | arhelion
​The Road to Agadez| Lowestoft Chronicle
The Attaché | Blue Lake Review ​​
​What Birds Know | Fictive Dream
​On the Jetty | Lowestoft Chronicle
​Back Where You’ve Never Been | ArLiJo
​wo Days Out From San Juan | Lowestoft Chronicle
​After the Meltdown, on the Hunt | Lowestoft Chronicle
​Hibernaculum | Talismann
​Clean and Legal, With Birds | The Courtship of Winds​​
​Dealbreak | Blue Lake Review
​Breakbone | Evergreen Review
​A Few Good Weeks | Bangalore Review
Famous People | The Saturday Evening Post
​​Swimming to the Island | Blue Lake Review
​​​​Uncle Used to Have Monkeys | The Oddville Press
The Secret Book Club | pioneertown
Worded Out | The Oddville Press
The Secret Book Club | pioneertown
​Mr. Tidy | Talisman
Country Butter | The Hudson Review
Korkak | Evergreen Review
Red Line | The Oddville Press
Famous People | Delmarva Review
Mysterious Stranger | The Oddville Press
Two Things | Blue Lake Review
What Now? | The Hudson Review
​Even Keel of a Well Told Lie | Oddville Pressl
Mexican Leg | The Oddville Press
Blue Horse | 
Slush Pile Magazine
Memory Loss | The Oddville Press
​​Threshold | Rumble Fish Quarterly​​
Montefalco | 
Parhelion
​Give It Wheels | Talisman
​Mexico | Oddville Press
Rent Check | Evergreen Review
Wild Turkey | 
Maple Tree Literary Supplement
The Frozen River Dream | The Oddville Press​
American Dream  | Delmarva Review
AmericanDream | Republished TalbotSpy.org & ChestertownSpy.org:
The Loneliness Contest | The Oddville Press
​Approximate | Adelaide
A Brief History of Bullfighting |The Oddville Press
Trail Magic | Rind
​Old School | Evergreen Review
​Other Men's Fields |The Hudson Review
Digging to China  | Talisman
Inheritance | Literary Heist
House of Flowers | Border Crossing
Down Cellar | The Courtship of Winds
​Blue Moons | Gravel
Daddy Says | Driftwood Press
​
Dream State | The Dr. T. J. Eckleburg Review
Garbage Can | The Carolina Quarterly
Not John | The Critical Pass Review
republished by Peace Corps Worldwide
​Bitter River | The Baffler
Fountain | The Baffler
What She Wants, What She Gets | Border Crossing
Antidote | The Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review  
he University of Sleep | Talisman
"A Lonely Man Talks to His Pig | Superstition Review,
republished by Peace Corps Worldwide
Guinevere | Chagrin River Review
The Italian Cook | The Adirondack Review
Naga Barang | The Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review
Meursault's Father | Superstititon Review , 
republished by Peace Corps Worldwide
Heat | Shenandoah 
Weightlifting for Catholics | The Atlantic
Notes Toward A Revised Definition of Myself | Chagrin River Review
This Year’s Parade | Literary Juice
The Widow Kip | The Adirondack Review
Stone Song | SN Review
My Support for Henry | Literary Juice
Sturgeon | The Bacon Review
Kiss Kiss | Literary Juice
The Castle Stands | Reconfigurations
The Emperor’s Cat | Reconfigurations
Singing in a Foreign Land | Reconfigurations
My Letter to Sandy | Reconfigurations
The Jesus Bear | Reconfigurations

Podcast 

A Lonely Man Talks to His Pig | Superstition Review
Read by Mark Jacobs

Meursault's Father | Superstition Review
Read by Mark Jacobs

Coming Soon.

Sal’s Mirror | Johnny America ​
Citizens of the World | Lowestoft Chronicle
Sevgili Jane | Chiron Review 
Restos | The Hudson Review
​Thing, Thought, Thrill | ​Main Street Rag
I have been reading Mark's stories for years. He is constantly creating tales of sorrow, love and wonder that take you to faraway places. 
​— ​Jefe | Johnny America Reader

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    • A Cast of Spaniards
    • The Liberation of Little Heaven
  • Short Stories
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