Ric Nudell

Short Fiction

Downward Mobility, 2012

Every power tool I've ever owned has quit on me. That’s just the way they are.

Downward Mobility is about belief and choices and their impact on one man's life.

The Cartoonist, 2004

Somewhere on the genome was a gene for cowlick. That would be her first choice for gene therapy, just edit it out.

The Cartoonist is about the tensions between the time to create and the rest of life.

So This is Jericho, 2022

The boy was thin and gawky with a mousse of blond hair that fell off to one side.

So This is Jericho is about a protest in response to the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade.

Long Fiction

Escape, 2022

I don’t wonder how this ends, it ends badly, I know. If I could untangle how one step and then another led to this, I might stop, but I can’t. And if it only takes a gesture, the slightest affirmation, for an entire destiny to unspool, well certainly I did more.

Escape is a novel about various forms of escape.