Fiction

  • “Beyond Slapstick, “Wisconsin Review, June, 1975.
  • “Magician Steals Show While Tourists Frown On Clown Town,” NewsArt New York, 1977.
  • “Piece Of Ice,” Wisconsin Review, , 1977.
  • “Affiliated Shadows,” Wisconsin Review, 1977.
  • “Turtle,” Pushcart Prizes III. Ed. Bill Henderson. New York: Pushcart Press, 1978 & 1979.
  • “Stuffing Feathers Into Boots,” Lake Street Review, summer, 1980.
  • “Mr. Nosey,” Lake Street Review, Minneapolis, MN, summer, 1981.
  • “Stuffing Feathers Into Boots,” (short story). New Oregon Review, spring / summer, Hillsboro, OR, 1982.
  • “Stuffing Feathers Into Boots,” Street Magazine, Port Jefferson, NY, 1982.
  • “Crossroads,” “Bouncer,” “Turtle,” December Magazine, 1976.
  • “Catch The Falling Egg,” Other Voices, Highland Park, IL, no. 1, 1985.
  • “The Girl With The Dark Mustache,” Champagne Horror, Regina, Saskatchewan, December, 1989.
  • “Shopping At The Cote d’Azur,” Champagne Horror, Regina, Saskatchewan, December, 1989.
  • “Let’s Have A little Decency,” Tapas, St. Louis, MO 1992.
  • “Purse Snatch,” Nth Position, September, 2005.
  • Motels of Burning Madness (novel), Drill Press, 2007
  • “Affiliated Shadows,” Sleet Magazine, http://www.sleetmagazine.com, 2009.
  • “Application for the Chaparral Writers Society,” The Big Stupid Review, April, 2009.
  • “Shoe Boy’s Private Reflections,” in Love Hotel City, ed. by Andrew Stevens (London, Future Fiction), 2009.
  • Motels of Burning Madness (novel) (Drill Press, Austin TX) 2009
  • “Above It All,” Wild River Review, http://www.wildriverreview.com/fiction-above-it-all-john-ivan-palmer, Dec. 2011.
  • “Kissing in Church,” The Literary Nest, https://theliterarynest.com/issues/vol-4-issue-1/fiction/john-ivan-palmer/   Vol 4, Issue 1, Spring 2018.
  • “The Reptilian,” flash fiction in the anthology The Whisper Place: Ellipsis Zine #4, published by EllipsisZine.com in the UK, 2018, (print only) https://www.ellipsiszine.com/four/
  • “On the Fly,” short story, Punaise de lit, une revue des arts, premier numéro, Nov. 2023.
  • “Talent,” flash fiction, Blink-Ink, March, 2024.