Other Writing — SHANE JOAQUIN JIMENEZ

Selected Writing

INITIATION Roi Fainéant Press

“The questions she proceeds to ask strike you as odd for a job interview—your hopes and dreams, your sleep patterns, your darkest fears—but you have never interviewed in an office before, so you speak from your heart. The old lady writes everything down on a yellow legal pad. Looking at yourself in the mirror, you wonder if someone is watching you from the other side. When you look back at the woman, she is holding a phone to her ear and nodding. You suddenly feel not quite yourself.”

GRAVES Close to the Bone

“Something landed in the dirt behind him.

“Pick it up,” the man said.

The rider turned around, his sneakers sloshing in puddled rainwater on the desert floor. He took his hands out of his leather motorcycle jacket—his helmet was back on the highway with the wreck of his bike—but stopped when he saw what was illuminated by the flashlight the man pointed at his feet. A shovel.”

Select Stories

“Victims” @ Shotgun Honey

“Killer” @ Punk Noir Magazine

“Epitaph” @ Bristol Noir

“Romance Languages” @ Grain Magazine

“Icelandic Kisses” @ Cleaver Magazine

“Santa Ana” @ Almost Five Quarterly

“Foxhunting” @ The Canary Press

“Evacipate” @ Camas

“Vultures” @ Hunger Mountain

“An Ounce of Sauce Hides a Multitude of Sins” @ Word Riot

“Mary” @ Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine

“I Will See You in Hell” @ Black Heart Magazine

“Teen Dream” @ Midwestern Gothic

“Teen Dream” @ Digital Americana

“You and Me” @ The Saint Ann’s Review

“I Have Never Stopped Thinking of You” @ Umbrella Factory

“Put Your Shirt On, Fabio” @ Fast Forward

“Wormfood” @ In Stereo Press

“No Cerveza, No Trabajo” @ The Greensboro Review

“The Two Empresses of Mexico” @ Bat City Review

Reviews, Etc.

Interview with Scott Alexander Jones @ Rain Taxi

My Escapee by Corinna Vallianatos @ Rain Taxi

Primordial by D. Harlan Wilson @ Denver Quarterly

The Edge Becomes the Center by DW Gibson @ The Portland Mercury

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro @ The Portland Mercury

The First Bad Man by Miranda July @ Los Angeles Review of Books

Consumed by David Cronenberg @ Film International

Three Stories by J.D. Salinger @ Rain Taxi

Sleep Donation by Karen Russell, and Black Moon by Kenneth Calhoun @ Los Angeles Review of Books

Mama Leone by Miljenko Jergović @ Denver Quarterly

Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolaño @ The Millions

Immobility by Brian Evenson @ Rain Taxi

House of the Fortunate Buddhas by João Ubaldo Ribeiro @ Rain Taxi

Ray of the Star by Laird Hunt @ Bombay Gin

The Other City by Michael Ajvaz @ Bombay Gin

“Notes on Nightmares: Stacey Steers’s Phantom Canyon” @ Bombay Gin