Kenton K. Yee

About Me

Kenton K. Yee has placed poetry and fiction in The Los Angeles Review, Plume Poetry, Tipton Poetry Journal (forthcoming), Matter, Ligeia Magazine (forthcoming), Summerset Review (forthcoming), Abstract Magazine TV (forthcoming), Trampoline, PANK, Hobart, Necessary Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Drabblecast, Shotgun Honey, Akashic Books, DOGZPLOT, A cappella Zoo, Cafe Irreal, Corium Magazine, Word Riot, elimae, Mud Luscious, Monkeybicycle, Every Day Fiction, Every Day Poets, Brain Harvest, Perihelion, Bartleby Snopes, Apollo's Lyre, Liquid Imaginations, and Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, among others. Trained in theoretical physics, law, investing and economics, he writes from northern California.

STORIES

Screaming Meemie (Shotgun Honey)
https://www.shotgunhoney.com/fiction/streaming-meemie-by-kenton-k-yee

So Many Holes in This Our Universe (Necessary Fiction)
http://necessaryfiction.com/stories/KentonKYeeSoManyHolesinThisOurUniverse

The Prenup Murders (Akashic Books: Mondays are Murder series)
http://www.akashicbooks.com/the-prenup-murders-by-kenton-k-yee/

Awakening (Daily Science Fiction)
http://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/virtual-reality/kenton-k-yee/awakening_SF

Shooting Stars (A cappella Zoo, Issue 11, Fall 2013;
reprint in Palms166, a Stanford alumni anthology, 2017)
http://www.acappellazoo.com/order

Marriage for Moonlighters (Monkeybicycle)
http://monkeybicycle.net/marriage-for-moonlighters/

Goldilocks and the Three Point Five Bears (Corium Magazine)
http://www.coriummagazine.com/?page_id=3843

Your Gedanken Collection (Hobart)
http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/your-gedanken-collection

The Oldest Game in Town (Cafe Irreal)
http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/kenton_yee.htm

Indistinguishable (Quantum Shorts)
https://shorts.quantumlah.org/entry/indistinguishable
(anthologized in Quantum Shorts: Collected Flash Fiction Inspired by Quantum Physics)
https://shorts.quantumlah.org/the-book
published by the Centre for Quantum Technologies in collaboration with Scientific American and Nature)

Cosmological Expansion (DOGZPLOT)
http://dogzplot.blogspot.com/2015/02/cosmological-expansion-kenton-k-yee.html

Aurora's Sky (Every Day Fiction)
http://www.everydayfiction.com/auroras-sky-by-kenton-k-yee/

Losing His Voice (Word Riot)
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/2711

Bot Gone, Ramifications (Perihelion)
(It's the second story on this "shorter stories" page).
www.perihelionsf.com/1403/anomalies.htm

Author interview at PANK Magazine
http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/young-bright-things/ask-the-author-kenton-k-yee/

Try My Shank (PANK, 7/5/2012;
https://pankmagazine.com/piece/try-my-shank/
performed by Matt Weller in Drabblecast 280 podcast)
http://www.drabblecast.org/tag/author-kenton-k-yee/

The Roach Under Her Bed
The Los Angeles Review, volume 11, Spring 2012, pp 177-178

Irreversible Dad
Brain Harvest, 21 August 2011
Anthologized in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader presents Flush Fiction: 88 Short-Short Stories You Can Read in a Single Sitting (Apr 2012, Bathroom Readers' Institute)
https://www.facebook.com/UncleJohnsBathroomReader/posts/352999014783308

Allure (Word Riot)
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/7704

Wholly Matrimony (with animation, Liquid Imaginations)
http://liquid-imagination.com/site/?page_id=263

Teenage Housefly (Word Riot)
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/2588

Daddy, Wake Up (Bartleby Snopes)
http://www.bartlebysnopes.com/daddywakeup.htm

POEMS AND ONE SENTENCE STORIES

Corporate Life (Matter, September 2021)
https://mattermonthly.com/2021/08/30/corporate-life/

Plastic Rose (Matter, September 2021)
https://mattermonthly.com/2021/08/30/plastic-rose/

For Your Eighteenth Birthday (Plume Poetry, July 2021)
https://plumepoetry.com/for-your-eighteenth-birthday/

Self-Driven Taxi (Strange Horizons)
http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/self-driven-taxi/
Read by Ciro Faienza (Strange Horizons podcast)
http://strangehorizons.com/podcasts/podcast-october-poetry-4/

Mole With a Motto (Trampoline, Issue 8.6A)
https://www.trampolinepoetry.com/

The Many Words Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (Every Day Poets)
https://poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2013/03/many-worlds-in-pantoum.html

As You Urinate (Partners in Rhyme: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry)
https://www.amazon.com/Partners-Rhyme-Anthology-Contemporary-Poetry-ebook/dp/B01LS1CH28

If a Black Hole Could (Every Day Poets)
http://www.everydaypoets.com/if-a-black-hole-could-by-kenton-k-yee/

Hole-19b (elimae)
http://elimae.com/2012/11/Hole.html

Newtonian Gravitation (Every Day Poets)
http://www.everydaypoets.com/newtonian-gravitation-by-kenton-k-yee/

One Convenience Store Clerk’s Contribution to Cable TV Ratings (Monkeybicycle)
http://monkeybicycle.net/one-sentence-stories-12-03-13/

Losing his Voice (Word Riot)
http://www.wordriot.org/archives/2711

Inside a Restaurant Aquarium (Monkeybicycle)
http://monkeybicycle.net/one-sentence-stories-july-5-2011/

Prehensile Tongue (Short, Fast, and Deadly)
http://www.shortfastanddeadly.com/2011/05/prehensile-tongue.html

Why do you write?

“To omit a word always, to resort to inept metaphors and obvious periphrases, is perhaps the most emphatic way of stressing it.” -- Jorge Luis Borges in The Garden of Forking Paths

Any favorite authors? Books?

I don't really have "favorites" (they drift over time), but Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami, John Edward Williams, Billy Collins and Ted Kooser, among others, seem relevant to me this summer. But ask me next month and the list may fluctuate.