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Professional Publications
* The Well – (short story): Night Shades Magazine ; November 14, 2025. Read online.
* Recall, Recall, Recall – (prose poem): Poets in the Pines ; Made from Midnight Anthology ; paperback forthcoming November 04, 2025 – Purchase on Amazon or on Barnes & Noble.
* Blabber, Chat, Shouting-Match: 50 Dialogue-Only Fictions (short story collection) ; July 08, 2025.
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A book of 50 short stories by a unique, witty, and, if necessary, brutal author.
Blabber, Chat, Shouting Match: 50 Dialogue-Only Fictions takes the traditional genre of literary dialogue and interrogates the form through a fictional lens in our era of hyper-communication and viral misinformation. A product of a self-imposed, yearlong writing challenge, Greene’s book delivers a diverse collection of conversations. Bigfoot, gods, AI dating apps, serial killers, and men debating whose turn it is to cross a busy and blood-spattered road are just some of the characters you’ll meet in these philosophically charged and emotionally raw short stories.
* A Set of Clown Car Keys – (short story): Sometimes Hilarious Horror; May 26, 2025. Purchase online.
* Starry-Eyed Miniature Catalpas – (short story): Dark Horses Magazine ; November 26, 2024. Purchase online.
* Conclave at the Tea Table – (short story): carte blanche ; September 16, 2024. Read online.
* Graffiti Field Research – (dialogue): The Metaphysical Review: Into the Metaverse; June 06, 2023. Read online.
* Bright Moon Over Lover’s Bridge (short story): Anansi Archive Anthology: Christmas Bizarre and Other Stories (Volume 1, Winter 2021); print pub. January 22, 2022. Read online (p. 38) or purchase on Amazon.
* For When No One Does Social Distancing Anymore (poem): The Junction ; June 25, 2021. Read online.
* A Word Portrait of Gertrude Stein in the Style of Gertrude Stein’s Word Portraits (creative nonfiction): Squawk Back ; March 15, 2020. Read online.
* plain of swords (short story): Outposts of Beyond – Alban Lake Publishing ; January (2020).
* Remembering to Celebrate Our Successes (short story): CRY Magazine. ; December 23, 2019. Read online.
* Reflections on a Decade-long Journey to Getting a Flash Fiction Story Published (nonfiction): The Ascent ; August 28, 2019. Read online.
* Expire (dialogue): Raw Art Review ; (Spring 2019). Read online (p. 58) or purchase a physical copy.
* The Wave (dialogue): Colp: Big – Gypsum Sound Tales ; July 08, 2019. Order in print or in digital form.
* The Final Voyage (short story): Strange Mysteries 8 : anthology – Whortleberry Press ; May 2019. Order online.
* A Rant Against Myself (creative nonfiction): CultureCult Magazine ; Issue #11, April 2019. Available in print.
* @ChefNipsNips (dialogue): Defenestration Magazine ; April 20, 2019. Read online.
* A Lover’s Dwelling (dialogue): Flash Fiction Addiction : anthology – Zombie Pirate Publishing ; April 15, 2019. Order online.
* Demon Zone (dialogue): Midnight Mosaic : 2nd Place winner of the 13 Days of Dark Lore Contest ; April 07, 2019. Read online.
* Therapy (dialogue): Public House Magazine ; Issue 9 | Tabloid, January 28, 2019
* Everything in Its Right Place (dialogue): Iowa’s Emerging Writers : anthology – Z Publishing ; September 09, 2018. Order the anthology.
* Viagra for a Pariah (dialogue): The Green Light Literary Journal ; issue # 3, August 15, 2018. Read online.
* What Makes You, You? #511 – Randal Eldon Greene (art collaboration): Sally Sheinman, artist ; July 15, 2018. View online.
* Jonathan Knudsen (dialogue): Train Lit Mag ; July 05, 2018.
* Medea Naked on the Golden Fleece (dialogue): Lit Up ; April 30, 2018. Read online.
* A New Kind of Mother (short story): Spelk ; April 27, 2018. Read online.
* Tarnished Time (dialogue): The Creative Cafe ; April 17, 2018. Read online.
* You’re a Kid (short story): The Creative Cafe ; March 15, 2018. Read online.
* H (short story): Literally Literary ; March 13, 2018. Read online.
* Irony (short story): 3:AM Magazine ; June (2017). Read online.
* On the Art of the Long Sentence (essay): This is Writing ; April 18, 2017. Read online.
* When the Dog Gets Ready to Die (prose poem): Unbroken Journal ; January issue (2017). Read online.
⁎ Baby From the Sky (short story): for the Writers’ Village How to Write a Very Short Story (The Ultimate Guide) Contest ; March (2016).
* The Joy of a First Book (essay): StoryFinds ; December 16, 2016.
* If My Book (creative nonfiction): Monkeybicycle ; December 13, 2016. Read online.
* Descriptions of Heaven (novella): 
Harvard Square Editions ; November (2016).
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A linguist, a lake monster, and the looming shadow of death–news of an unknown creature in the New Bedford Lake coincides with news that Natalia’s cancer has returned.
On the shores of the lake in a strange house with many secret doors, Robert and his family must face the fact that Natalia is dying, and there is no hope this time. But they continue on; their son plays by the lakeside, Natalia paints, Robert writes, and all the while the air is thick with dust from a worldwide drought that threatens to come down and coat their little corner of green.
A lament for what is already lost and what is yet to be lost, Descriptions of Heaven leaves only one question to be asked: What’s next?
* Come Light (short story): Unbroken Journal ; March/April issue (2016). Read online. Nominated for the 2017 Best Small Fictions.
* The Old Man’s Rocking Chair is Moving Slower, Boy (short story): as|peers ; issue #6 (2013). Story is available in print or can be read online.
* Things That Fall (short story): VLP Magazine: Dreaming Up a Past ; (2011). Story published as second place winner of the annual VLP Three-Hour Fiction writing contest.
* The Sahlfeld Place (short story): NPR Three-Minute Fiction ; October (2010). Story published online by National Public Radio as a finalist for the Three-Minute Fiction Contest, Round Five. Read online.
* Bad Weather (short story): 34thParallel ; issue #11, July (2010). Magazine available in both print and digital formats.
* Beyond the Blue Curtain (short story): VLP Magazine: a fortune up in flames ; (2010).
* There’s War (short story): Bust Down the Door and Eat all the Chickens ; issue# Y’aing’ngah (Winter 2010). Available on Amazon Kindle.
https://disqus.com/home/discussion/writersvillage/how_to_write_a_very_short_story_the_ultimate_guide/#comment-2554537296Independent publications
* A Man in the Snow (dialogue): Medium ; December 01, 2018. Read online.
* DigiSpouse.com Testimonial (dialogue): Medium ; March 19, 2018. Read online.
* 88 “Spice Up Your Date” Shimmer Palette (dialogue): Medium ; February 06, 2018. Read online.
* The Decline of Literary Fiction (essay): Medium ; January 30, 2018. Read online.
* Aunt Phyllis is Yours This Christmas (short story): Medium ; December 15, 2018. Read online.
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