The following short stories are in print or online. Your comments are always welcome - please use the contact page.
These stories will appear in 2025.
25 - 1. “One Foot In,” The Wise Owl, January 2025.
25 - 2. “Madame Trapinni, Advisor,” Who Let the Stories Out? Vol 1 – 1, January 2025.
25 - 3. “What You Wish For,” Bookends Review, January 22, 2025.
25 - 4. “Andalusian Horses,” Wave, The Kelp Journal, 1/31/2025.
25 - 5. "Hops, Skips, and a Jump," https://scars.tv/cgi-bin/framesmain.pl?writers.
25 - 6. “Always,” The Ink Nest Literary Magazine, February 2025.
25 - 7. “Nope, Never,” The Ink Nest Literary Magazine, February 2025.
25 - 8. "Bottom's Up," https://literaryyard.com/2025/02/05/bottoms-up-2/.
25 - 9. "Not a Time for Tea," https://www.lancemanion.com/, February 6, 2025.
25 - 10. "Life along the Mobius Strip," Waffle Fried, March, 2025.
25 - 11. “Jack,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com, 3/11/2025.
25 - 12. “Jack Be Nimble,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com, 3/11/2025.
25 - 13. "Yiannis," Egophobia, 3/15/2025. https://egophobia.ro/?p=15680.
25 - 14. “On the Beach,” https://www.northernewenglandreview.com/, 3/25/2025.
25 - 15. “A Passel of Memories,” https://www.thewiseowl.art/kenneth-m-kapp.
25 - 16. "Hops, Skips, and a Jump," Down in the Dirt (v230), Scars.tv. April 2025.
25 - 17. "The Wingchair," October Hill Magazine, Spring 2025.
25 - 18. “Honestly,” https://egophobia.ro/?p=15709. #85.
25 - 19. “Fingal’s bad Luck,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com, 4/27/2025.
25 - 20. “Ride, Paggy, Ride,” The Wise Owl, May 2025.
25 - 21. “Off-road Racing,” The Antonym Literary Magazine, May, 2025.
25 - 22. “Crepuscule,” Xinachtli Journal, https://www.cabrillo.edu/journal-x/, May 2025.
25 - 23. “Call It Home,” Xinachtli Journal, https://www.cabrillo.edu/journal-x/, May 2025.
25 - 24. "The Emissary," #16, The Rivanna Review, June 2025.
25 - 25. “Essex by the Sea,” https://allyourstories.com/, June 2025.
25 - ? “Going My Way," Blood + Honey Lit, 6/22/2025.
25 - ? "Crimson Knight," The Imagist Literary Magazine, 2025.
25 - ? “Three Tall Men,” Down in the Dirt (V233), Scars tv July, 2025.
25 - ? "Conundrums -- III," Literary Cocktail Magazine, Spring 2025.
25 - ? “Anything Is Possible,” The Wise Owl, July 2025.
25 - ? “Pick a Number" Blood + Honey Lit, 8/2/2025.
25 - ? “What Henry Built,” Colp – On the Farm, Australia, 2025.
25 - ? "Pheasant Dreams," 50 Give or Take, No. 1900, Vine Leaves Press.
25 - ? "Disappearing Slowly," The Writers' Journal, 2025.
These stories appeared in 2024.
24 - 1. "Kalman's Head," https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2024/01.
24 - 2. "Summer Reruns," Panoplyzine, January 15, 2024..
24 - 3. "The Unwelcome Guest," Nat 1 LLC Audience Askew Vol 2 Issue #3.
24 - 4. "Snappers," Winter 2023 Edition, October Hill Magazine, January 15, 2024.
24 - 5. “It Happened to Harry,” https://www.lancemanion.com/, March 23, 2024.
24 - 6. “Tzavé,” Jewish Literary Journal, 4/1/2024.
24 - 7. "N H W," Havik Magazine, May 2024.
24 - 8. “Doppelganger,” Millennial Pulp Literary Magazine Vol. 4, Summer 2024.
24 - 9. “Billet-doux – A Parable.” The Broadkill Review, Summer 2024.
24 - 10. “A Woman and Her Dog,” 'Retirement Lifespan Vol. 10'. Pure Slush, 2024.
24 - 11. "A Stich with Thyme," https://literaryyard.com/2024/07/06.
24 - 12. "Shuffle and Cut," https://literaryyard.com/2024/07/06.
24 - 13. “Mother’s Day,” Valiant Scribe 8/23/2024.
24 - 14. “Can Kindness be a Cornerstone for the Future,” Vine Leaves Press, September, 2024.
24 - 15. “Faerie Gardens,” Coin-operated Press, September, 2024.
24 - 16. “The Apple Tree,” Old Age Vol. 11. Pure Slush, 2024.
24 - 17. “Lost for Words,” https://www.thewiseowl.art/ken-kapp, September, 2024.
24 - 18. “Jack’s Candle,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com, 9/14/2024.
24 - 19. “Lost and Found,” Molecule: A Tiny Little Mag, Fall, 2024.
24 - 20. “What Did You Know?” Death Vol. 12, Pure Slush, 2024.
24 -21. "Bagley Rapids," Bear Paw Journal, Fall, 2024.
24 - 22. “A Happy Seat,” Valiant Scribe, 10/2/24.
24 - 23. “Notes from a Winter Cabin,” Bar Bar Journal.
24 - 24. “Just another Day,” Sybil Journal.
24 - 25. “Andalusian Horses,” Wave, The Kelp Journal. Slipped to 1/31/25.
24 - 26. “From one Season to the Next,” Gabby and Min’s Literary Review #6, Fall, 2024.
24 - 27. "A Fall Sonatina," Sheepshead Review, Fall 2024.
24 - 28. “On the other Side of the Wave,” Literary Cocktail Magazine, Fall, 2024.
24 - 29. “Blow Away Divisiveness with cool Sounds,” Jerryjazzmusician.com 11/30/2024.
24 - 30. “It’s not as If,” The Writers' Journal, December, 2024.
24 - 31. “What I Need,” Issue #7, Suburban Witchcraft, December, 2024.
24 - 32. “A Reluctant Return,” https://egophobia.ro/?p=15530.
24 - 33. "Yehuda Yannay: In Memoriam," https://egophobia.ro/?p=15543.
24 - 34. "One Last Time," Antonym Literary Magazine, December, 2024.
24 - 35. "Summer Games," Antonym Literary Magazine, December, 2024.
24 - 36. “Crabby,” Quibble Quarterly: Volume III – Simple, December, 2024.
These stories appeared in 2023.
23 - 1. “The Flower that Bloomed in the Spring,” Coffin Bell Journal, 1/1/23.
23 - 2. "Like Roses," Lothlorien Poetry Journal Vol 20, 3/2023/
23 - 3. "Robin in the Hood," reprinted https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/search?q=kapp
23 - 4. "I, Myself," Saturday Evening Press, April 14, 2023.
23 - 5. "Daddy Longlegs Hits his Stride," 5/10/2023https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/."
23 - 6. "Once Upon a Time," https://www.poeticamagazine.com/kenneth-kapp-2023.
23 - 7. "Stationery," June 2, 2023, https://www.valiantscribe.com/.
23 - 8. “D’aneter, a Porpoise with a Purpose,” reprinted in Lothlorien Poetry Blog, 6/25/2023.
23 - 9. “A Tight Schedule,” The Waiting Room, July, 2023 Nervous Ghost Press.
23 - 10. “Whooshie and Me,” The Bluebird World, July, 2023.
23 - 11. "Lately Lilly," October Hill Magazine, July, 2023.
23 - 12. "Keep Walking," Achievement, Pure Slush, July, 2023.
23 - 13. “Ms. Thark-Norton,” Once Upon a Crocodile, August, 2023.
23 - 14. "Bragging Rights," The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, October, 2023.
23 - 15. "At Comedy Off-Center," https://scars.tv/cgi-bin/framesmain.pl?writers.
23 - 16. "Channeling Huck Finn," Books Anthology, Pure Slush, 12/2023.
23 - 17. “I Heard It from a Friend,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2023/12.
23 - 18. “Out on the Prairie,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2023/12.
23 - 19. “A lovely little City,” Loss Anthology, Pure Slush, 2023.
These stories appeared in 2022.
22 -1. “Coffee Breaks,” Pure Slush, Australia, Appt at 10:30 Anthology, January 2022.
22 - 2. "Home in Time for Shabbos," Jewish Literary Journal, 3/1/2022.
22 - 3. “Inchworm, inchworm,” Moon Park Review, 3/20/2022.
22 - 4. "Tea, Please," Poetica Magazine, 2022.
22 - 5. "The Package," theblubirdword.com, 5/2022.
22 - 6. "The Shmata,” Pure Slush, Work Anthology, 2022.
22 - 7. "The Chair," Dash Literary Journal, 5/2022.
22 - 8. “The Rebbe and the Fox,” Poetica Magazine online. May 2022.
22 - 9. “Not you usual Cowpie,” COW Anthology, Pure Slush, 2022.
22 - 10. “The Red Recliner,” October Hill Magazine, July 15, 2022.
22 - 11. “Green Peace,” Minyan Magazine, 8/2022.
22 - 12. “Not you usual Cowpie,” COW Anthology, Pure Slush, 2022.
22 - 13. “Norman Leaving,” Marriage Anthology, Pure Slush, September, 2022.
22 - 14. "Gin, Dear," 10 x 10 Flash, 9/2022.
22 - 15. "Goulash for a Ghoul," Bridge Eight VIII, October, 2022.
22 - 16. "It Takes Guts," ArLiJo #166a, November, 2022.
22 - 17. “The Scribbler,” Issue 7, December, 2022, quibblelit.com.
----- My essays appear regularly online in the The Havok Journal, A Voice for the Veteran Community. There are new postings every day with a wide range of opinions. Well worth the clicks to read. These are new in 2023.
23 - 1. "Depression," 2/21/2023, https://havokjournal.com/.
23- 2. "I O U 2," 2/28/2023.
23 - 3. "This Too," 3/8/2023.
23 - 4. "Fear," 3/11/2023.
23 - 5. "Ode to Joy Revisited," 3/13/2023.
23 - 6. "Alone, I'm Done For," 3/21/2023.
23 - 7. "Saying Goodbye," 3/24/2023, etc.
----- More articles appear online in my local indie paper, The Shepherd Express. These are mostly about upcoming concerts -- usually featuring chamber music and local musicians. Search online if you're curious: shepherdexpress.com. And another series of articles on microbreweries in SE Wisconsin. I know -- tough work, but someone has to do it.
These stories will appear in 2025.
25 - 1. “One Foot In,” The Wise Owl, January 2025.
25 - 2. “Madame Trapinni, Advisor,” Who Let the Stories Out? Vol 1 – 1, January 2025.
25 - 3. “What You Wish For,” Bookends Review, January 22, 2025.
25 - 4. “Andalusian Horses,” Wave, The Kelp Journal, 1/31/2025.
25 - 5. "Hops, Skips, and a Jump," https://scars.tv/cgi-bin/framesmain.pl?writers.
25 - 6. “Always,” The Ink Nest Literary Magazine, February 2025.
25 - 7. “Nope, Never,” The Ink Nest Literary Magazine, February 2025.
25 - 8. "Bottom's Up," https://literaryyard.com/2025/02/05/bottoms-up-2/.
25 - 9. "Not a Time for Tea," https://www.lancemanion.com/, February 6, 2025.
25 - 10. "Life along the Mobius Strip," Waffle Fried, March, 2025.
25 - 11. “Jack,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com, 3/11/2025.
25 - 12. “Jack Be Nimble,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com, 3/11/2025.
25 - 13. "Yiannis," Egophobia, 3/15/2025. https://egophobia.ro/?p=15680.
25 - 14. “On the Beach,” https://www.northernewenglandreview.com/, 3/25/2025.
25 - 15. “A Passel of Memories,” https://www.thewiseowl.art/kenneth-m-kapp.
25 - 16. "Hops, Skips, and a Jump," Down in the Dirt (v230), Scars.tv. April 2025.
25 - 17. "The Wingchair," October Hill Magazine, Spring 2025.
25 - 18. “Honestly,” https://egophobia.ro/?p=15709. #85.
25 - 19. “Fingal’s bad Luck,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com, 4/27/2025.
25 - 20. “Ride, Paggy, Ride,” The Wise Owl, May 2025.
25 - 21. “Off-road Racing,” The Antonym Literary Magazine, May, 2025.
25 - 22. “Crepuscule,” Xinachtli Journal, https://www.cabrillo.edu/journal-x/, May 2025.
25 - 23. “Call It Home,” Xinachtli Journal, https://www.cabrillo.edu/journal-x/, May 2025.
25 - 24. "The Emissary," #16, The Rivanna Review, June 2025.
25 - 25. “Essex by the Sea,” https://allyourstories.com/, June 2025.
25 - ? “Going My Way," Blood + Honey Lit, 6/22/2025.
25 - ? "Crimson Knight," The Imagist Literary Magazine, 2025.
25 - ? “Three Tall Men,” Down in the Dirt (V233), Scars tv July, 2025.
25 - ? "Conundrums -- III," Literary Cocktail Magazine, Spring 2025.
25 - ? “Anything Is Possible,” The Wise Owl, July 2025.
25 - ? “Pick a Number" Blood + Honey Lit, 8/2/2025.
25 - ? “What Henry Built,” Colp – On the Farm, Australia, 2025.
25 - ? "Pheasant Dreams," 50 Give or Take, No. 1900, Vine Leaves Press.
25 - ? "Disappearing Slowly," The Writers' Journal, 2025.
These stories appeared in 2024.
24 - 1. "Kalman's Head," https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2024/01.
24 - 2. "Summer Reruns," Panoplyzine, January 15, 2024..
24 - 3. "The Unwelcome Guest," Nat 1 LLC Audience Askew Vol 2 Issue #3.
24 - 4. "Snappers," Winter 2023 Edition, October Hill Magazine, January 15, 2024.
24 - 5. “It Happened to Harry,” https://www.lancemanion.com/, March 23, 2024.
24 - 6. “Tzavé,” Jewish Literary Journal, 4/1/2024.
24 - 7. "N H W," Havik Magazine, May 2024.
24 - 8. “Doppelganger,” Millennial Pulp Literary Magazine Vol. 4, Summer 2024.
24 - 9. “Billet-doux – A Parable.” The Broadkill Review, Summer 2024.
24 - 10. “A Woman and Her Dog,” 'Retirement Lifespan Vol. 10'. Pure Slush, 2024.
24 - 11. "A Stich with Thyme," https://literaryyard.com/2024/07/06.
24 - 12. "Shuffle and Cut," https://literaryyard.com/2024/07/06.
24 - 13. “Mother’s Day,” Valiant Scribe 8/23/2024.
24 - 14. “Can Kindness be a Cornerstone for the Future,” Vine Leaves Press, September, 2024.
24 - 15. “Faerie Gardens,” Coin-operated Press, September, 2024.
24 - 16. “The Apple Tree,” Old Age Vol. 11. Pure Slush, 2024.
24 - 17. “Lost for Words,” https://www.thewiseowl.art/ken-kapp, September, 2024.
24 - 18. “Jack’s Candle,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com, 9/14/2024.
24 - 19. “Lost and Found,” Molecule: A Tiny Little Mag, Fall, 2024.
24 - 20. “What Did You Know?” Death Vol. 12, Pure Slush, 2024.
24 -21. "Bagley Rapids," Bear Paw Journal, Fall, 2024.
24 - 22. “A Happy Seat,” Valiant Scribe, 10/2/24.
24 - 23. “Notes from a Winter Cabin,” Bar Bar Journal.
24 - 24. “Just another Day,” Sybil Journal.
24 - 25. “Andalusian Horses,” Wave, The Kelp Journal. Slipped to 1/31/25.
24 - 26. “From one Season to the Next,” Gabby and Min’s Literary Review #6, Fall, 2024.
24 - 27. "A Fall Sonatina," Sheepshead Review, Fall 2024.
24 - 28. “On the other Side of the Wave,” Literary Cocktail Magazine, Fall, 2024.
24 - 29. “Blow Away Divisiveness with cool Sounds,” Jerryjazzmusician.com 11/30/2024.
24 - 30. “It’s not as If,” The Writers' Journal, December, 2024.
24 - 31. “What I Need,” Issue #7, Suburban Witchcraft, December, 2024.
24 - 32. “A Reluctant Return,” https://egophobia.ro/?p=15530.
24 - 33. "Yehuda Yannay: In Memoriam," https://egophobia.ro/?p=15543.
24 - 34. "One Last Time," Antonym Literary Magazine, December, 2024.
24 - 35. "Summer Games," Antonym Literary Magazine, December, 2024.
24 - 36. “Crabby,” Quibble Quarterly: Volume III – Simple, December, 2024.
These stories appeared in 2023.
23 - 1. “The Flower that Bloomed in the Spring,” Coffin Bell Journal, 1/1/23.
23 - 2. "Like Roses," Lothlorien Poetry Journal Vol 20, 3/2023/
23 - 3. "Robin in the Hood," reprinted https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/search?q=kapp
23 - 4. "I, Myself," Saturday Evening Press, April 14, 2023.
23 - 5. "Daddy Longlegs Hits his Stride," 5/10/2023https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/."
23 - 6. "Once Upon a Time," https://www.poeticamagazine.com/kenneth-kapp-2023.
23 - 7. "Stationery," June 2, 2023, https://www.valiantscribe.com/.
23 - 8. “D’aneter, a Porpoise with a Purpose,” reprinted in Lothlorien Poetry Blog, 6/25/2023.
23 - 9. “A Tight Schedule,” The Waiting Room, July, 2023 Nervous Ghost Press.
23 - 10. “Whooshie and Me,” The Bluebird World, July, 2023.
23 - 11. "Lately Lilly," October Hill Magazine, July, 2023.
23 - 12. "Keep Walking," Achievement, Pure Slush, July, 2023.
23 - 13. “Ms. Thark-Norton,” Once Upon a Crocodile, August, 2023.
23 - 14. "Bragging Rights," The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, October, 2023.
23 - 15. "At Comedy Off-Center," https://scars.tv/cgi-bin/framesmain.pl?writers.
23 - 16. "Channeling Huck Finn," Books Anthology, Pure Slush, 12/2023.
23 - 17. “I Heard It from a Friend,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2023/12.
23 - 18. “Out on the Prairie,” https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2023/12.
23 - 19. “A lovely little City,” Loss Anthology, Pure Slush, 2023.
These stories appeared in 2022.
22 -1. “Coffee Breaks,” Pure Slush, Australia, Appt at 10:30 Anthology, January 2022.
22 - 2. "Home in Time for Shabbos," Jewish Literary Journal, 3/1/2022.
22 - 3. “Inchworm, inchworm,” Moon Park Review, 3/20/2022.
22 - 4. "Tea, Please," Poetica Magazine, 2022.
22 - 5. "The Package," theblubirdword.com, 5/2022.
22 - 6. "The Shmata,” Pure Slush, Work Anthology, 2022.
22 - 7. "The Chair," Dash Literary Journal, 5/2022.
22 - 8. “The Rebbe and the Fox,” Poetica Magazine online. May 2022.
22 - 9. “Not you usual Cowpie,” COW Anthology, Pure Slush, 2022.
22 - 10. “The Red Recliner,” October Hill Magazine, July 15, 2022.
22 - 11. “Green Peace,” Minyan Magazine, 8/2022.
22 - 12. “Not you usual Cowpie,” COW Anthology, Pure Slush, 2022.
22 - 13. “Norman Leaving,” Marriage Anthology, Pure Slush, September, 2022.
22 - 14. "Gin, Dear," 10 x 10 Flash, 9/2022.
22 - 15. "Goulash for a Ghoul," Bridge Eight VIII, October, 2022.
22 - 16. "It Takes Guts," ArLiJo #166a, November, 2022.
22 - 17. “The Scribbler,” Issue 7, December, 2022, quibblelit.com.
----- My essays appear regularly online in the The Havok Journal, A Voice for the Veteran Community. There are new postings every day with a wide range of opinions. Well worth the clicks to read. These are new in 2023.
23 - 1. "Depression," 2/21/2023, https://havokjournal.com/.
23- 2. "I O U 2," 2/28/2023.
23 - 3. "This Too," 3/8/2023.
23 - 4. "Fear," 3/11/2023.
23 - 5. "Ode to Joy Revisited," 3/13/2023.
23 - 6. "Alone, I'm Done For," 3/21/2023.
23 - 7. "Saying Goodbye," 3/24/2023, etc.
----- More articles appear online in my local indie paper, The Shepherd Express. These are mostly about upcoming concerts -- usually featuring chamber music and local musicians. Search online if you're curious: shepherdexpress.com. And another series of articles on microbreweries in SE Wisconsin. I know -- tough work, but someone has to do it.