Selected Short Fiction
- The Rats (The Connecticut Writer, 1990)
- Fathers (The Louisville Review, 1992; All the Ways Home, New Victoria Publishers, 1995)
- Buster Lives (The North American Review, 1993)
- Old Friends
- Dexter Again
- Dorothy in Love
- Meghan and Rudy
- Missing Pieces
- The Man Who Missed the Superbowl
- The Secret of Life
- The Thing in Beaman's Gully
- Touched
Selected Articles
- "Relativity Speaking" (Boston Globe Magazine, May 22, 1983)
- "Anatomy of a Brawl" (Boston Observer, October 1, 1982)
- "Banned in Baileyville" (Northeast Magazine/Hartford Courant, June 27, 1982)
- "Notes from the Underground" (The Boston Phoenix, February 9, 1982)
- "Christmas Times: Summoning the Ghosts" (The Boston Phoenix, March 17, 1981)
- "Curb's Eye View: Twenty-Four Hours on Boylston Street" (The Boston Monthly, November 1980)
- "What Have They Done with the Bard? A Neighborhood Saloon in Transition" (Beacon/The Boston Herald American, November 14, 1976)
Selected Columns
"Beyond Boston" (The Boston Monthly, February 1981 – April 1982), was a series on the towns surrounding Boston, defining a different town each month in terms of its demography and geography, history and industry, issues and quality of life.
- "Newton By the Dozen" (April 1982)
- "Chelsea Mourning" (March 1982)
- "Brookline: The Best of Boston" (February 1982)
- "Watertown After the Wars" (December 1981)
- "The Discreet Charm of the Wellesoisie" (November 1981)
- "Salem's Lot" (October 1981)
- "Watch on Waltham" (September 1981)
- "The Wilder Shores of Wellfleet" (August 1981)
- "Lexington, America" (July 1981)
- "Milton Migrations" (June 1981)
- "Making It in Marblehead" (May 1981)
- "All Quiet on the Weston Front" (April 1981)
- "Forever in Everett" (March 1981)
- "Belmont Beatitudes" (February 1981)
Humor
- "Tie One On" (The Boston Phoenix, December 15, 1981)
- "Whoopee! Jokes shops are places you can go and find out how to be funny. Honest." (City Limits Magazine, May 1981)