Short stories are categorized by: Contemporary Fiction, Genre Fiction (Speculative, Historical, Action, Pulp, & Poetry), Creative Nonfiction, Humor, and Satire.
FICTION – Contemporary
- Kit County Jackrabbit Roundup in The Sunlight Press (micro)
- Deal Breaker in Ghost Parachute (micro)
- Plow and Prairie Dust in Sundial Magazine (poem)
- Tough Guys in Blood+Honey (flash)
- Jimmy. Fucking. Bang. in South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo) (flash) Included in P.A. Cornell’s 2025 Recap!
- Changeling Bramble in Moon City Review 2025 (print only). Reprinted in Fractured Lit. (micro)
- The Next Empty Cup in The Good Life Review (flash) Nominated for Best Small Fictions.
- Amygdala in Flash Boulevard. Honorable Mention in the WOW! Women on Writing 2024 Fall Flash Fiction Contest. (flash)
- That Kind of Girl in Flash Boulevard (micro) Nominated for Best Microfiction 2025.
- Crossroads Diner Blues, 1937 in Centaur Lit (micro). Featured in Maria’s Reading December 2024 Roundup! Nominated for Best Microfiction 2025.
- Tascadora, Texas, 1935 in Paperbark. Reprinted in The Sunlight Press, winner of the WOW! Women on Writing Summer 2025 Flash Fiction Contest. (micro)
- Suburban Median in Writers Resist (micro)
- Wish Upon in The Sunlight Press. Included in the 2024 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist. (micro)
- Daily Special in New World Writing (micro)
- Timestruck in 100 Word Story (micro)
- Blackberry Nights in Cease, Cows. Selected for Best Microfiction 2024. (micro)
- Slippin’ Away in Tangled Locks Journal (micro)
- To My American Daughter-In-Law in The Sunlight Press, nominated for Best Microfiction 2023 and Best of the Net 2024. Winner of Commuter Lit’s flash fiction contest. (micro)
- They Were the Years of Fat Water in Cheap Pop. Reprinted in Flash Flood Journal (micro)
- The Stubbornness of Bodies in Barren Magazine (flash)
- Catastrophic Disruption in Gone Lawn. Nominated for Best Microfiction 2023. (micro)
- On Sewing and the Anatomy of Lips in Fractured Lit (micro)
- Hometown Johnnies originally published in The Middle House Review. Reprinted in Fractured Lit. Selected for Best Microfiction 2024. Nominated for Best of the Net and longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 . Also analyzed by Tommy Dean in Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling. (micro)
- Lost & Found at the Oasis Motel on State Highway 6 in SoFloPoJo (South Florida Poetry Journal). Scroll down to see the story. Nominated for Best Small Fictions. (micro)
- Transmission in The Birdseed (micro)
- Like a Starward Rocket in New World Writing (micro)
- Borderland in WWPH Writes. Reprinted in Fractured Lit. (micro)
- A Practical Guide to Making Rain in The Citron Review. Included in the 2022 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist and several reading lists including Gillian O’Shaughnessy.(micro)
- The Unknowing in Six Sentences, reprinted in Flash Flood Journal (micro)
- The Sky Stretches Clear and Whole for a Single, Hovering Heartbeat in This Is What America Looks Like: Poetry & Fiction from DC, Maryland, Virginia anthology from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. Selected for Best Small Fictions 2021 (micro)
- Solitaire in Fractured Lit (micro)
- Muscle Memory in Reflex Fiction (micro)
- An Alternate Theory Regarding Natural Disasters, As Posited by the Teenage Girls of Clove County, Kansas originally published in Bending Genres. Selected for Flash Fiction America (W. W. Norton, 2023). Winner of the WOW! Women on Writing Spring 2021 Flash Fiction Contest and the 52nd New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction. (flash)
- Sweetheart Divinity in Mum Life Stories anthology (micro)
- Restoration in X-RAY Lit Mag. Nominated for Best Microfiction 2021 (micro)
- The Frame of a Life second place winner in WOW! Women on Communication Summer 2020 Flash Fiction Contest (flash)
- The Potential of Radio and Rain in New World Writing. This story made the 2021 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist and was a finalist in the 59th New Millennium Awards. (micro)
- Dreams, Encased in Endless Pictures anthology of winning stories from TL;DR Press’s inaugural flash fiction contest (flash)
- Air So Thick in Flash Flood Journal. Winner of the WOW! Women on Writing Summer 2019 Flash Fiction Contest, and Finalist in the 2020 New Millennium Writing Flash Fiction Prize. Originally published in The Writer’s Cafe Magazine. (flash)
- Dust Devil in Reflex Fiction (micro)
FICTION – SPECULATIVE, HISTORICAL, & PULP
- Silt Girl and Speckle Fish in Zoetic Press’s 4LPH4NUM3R1C (fantasy) (poem)
- Star Song in Syncopation Lit (fantasy)(micro)
- Ten and Out in Flash Fiction Online. Reviewed at SFF Reviews! (SF) (flash)
- Dandelion Maggie & Trippin’ Steve in Intrepidus Ink (SF, romance) (flash)
- Null Empathy in Nature Futures. Full pdf here. Reprinted in RESIST: A Flash Fiction Online Anthology. (SF) (flash)
- The Most Restful Stopover in the Galaxy in Penumbric Speculative Fiction (SF) (micro)
- Changeling Bramble in Moon City Review. (Horror/Lit) (micro) Reprinted in Fractured Lit. Nominated for Best Small Fictions.
- Graduated Justice: An Amelia Li Mystery in Translunar Travelers Lounge (SF) (short) Included in Eugenia Triantafylloy’s 2025 roundup! Reprint/podcast at Escape Pod.
- The Luckiest Night in Micromance Magazine (fantasy romcom) (short) Serialized: Part 2. Part 3.
- Mortality Error in Small Wonders Year 2 Backer Special Issue (SF) (micro)
- Loose Ends in Nature Futures. Full pdf here. (SFF) (flash)
- Soda-Pop Job in Intrepidus Ink (action/spy) (flash) Nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2025.
- We Held Hands, We Held Fire in Bullet Points (SF/horror) (micro)
- Point of Origin in Flash Flood Journal (SFF) (micro)
- Daily Dozen in Shortwave Magazine. Included in Thief anthology by Salty Dog Press. Podcast at Tales to Terrify. (horror) (short)
- Metalloid Blues: An Amelia Li Adventure in SNAFU: Comms (Cohesion Press). Featured in Dead Planet: Five Tales of Military Science Fiction Horror. (action/horror) (short) On the 2024 BSFA longlist!
- A Gift of Sweetness and Spice in All Worlds Wayfarer (fantasy) (short)
- Firefly Boys Winner of the Fall 2023 WOW! Women on Writing Flash Fiction Contest (flash)
- Wild Bill’s Last Ride in Hex Literary. Included in Mothman was Here: Tales of the Uncanny anthology. (horror) (micro)
- Intersecting Datafields in Robotic Ambitions anthology (Apex Books). Check out this review! Podcast at Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast. (SFF) (short)
- Situation Normal in SNAFU: Punk’d anthology (Cohesion Press). Author spotlight here. Available on Amazon. (SFF) (short)
- The Four Gifts of Empress Lessa in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, also podcast here. Included in Locus Magazine’s 2023 Recommended Reading List. Featured in Maria Haskins’ October 2023 Short Speculative Fiction Roundup and Vanessa Fogg’s October/November 2023 Short Fiction Recs. Reviewed by Charles Payseur for Locus Magazine, here. (SFF) (short)
- Let Us Dream in Small Wonders. Reviewed here. 2024 Rhysling Award Honorable Mention. Included in Small Wonders Best of Year One anthology and reprinted in the 2025 Seattle Worldcon Souvenir Book. (SFF) (Poem)
- The Great Chickenomachy of Chandler County, Kentucky in MetaStellar Magazine. Included in the 2024 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist. (SFF/comedy)(flash)
- Come Out, Come Out in Radon Journal. Nominated for the 2024 Best of the Net Anthology, Best New Weird Horror 2024, and The Best Horror of the Year Vol 16. Featured in Maria Haskins’ May 2023 Short Speculative Fiction Roundup and Eugenia Triantafyllou’s 2023 Beautiful Stories roundup. (SFF/horror) (flash)
- Petals of the Dogwood in Grim & Gilded (horror) (micro)
- Her Laughter, Bright and Sweet in AntipodeanSF & the Antipodean podcast (SFF) (micro)
- Worst Codename Ever: A Spy Story in Flash Flood (pulp/comedy) (micro)
- Scrape the Seeds Away in Flash Flood (SFF) (micro)
- Jesus Machine in the special science fiction edition of MicroPodcast, originally published in Daily Science Fiction. Link to Wayback Machine. (SFF) (micro)
- Empire in Gone Lawn. Reprinted in Flash Flood. (SFF) (micro)
- Phantom Fare in The Weird and Whatnot, available on Amazon (SFF) (short)
- Point of View in AntipodeanSF (SFF) (flash)
- For More Options, Press 9 in AntipodeanSF (SFF) (micro) (Feel free to use a binary-to-text translator to decipher the binary strings!)
- You Are Forgiven in Pulp Modern Flash (Pulp) (flash)
- Curiosity Coil in AntipodeanSF (SFF) (micro)
- Everything But the Mortgage in Hope anthology by TL;DR Press (Hist) (short)
- Once Upon an Autumn Breeze in Fudoki Magazine (SFF) (flash)
- First to Market in Sundial Magazine (Hist) (micro)
- Black Market in Nope 2: Too Late; Didn’t Run by TL;DR Press. This story won 6th overall in the 2019 NYCMidnight Short Story Competition, and was first published in Blood and Blasphemy by Hellbound Books. (Hist, Horror) (short)
- The Collection in Twist in Time magazine, podcast at Centropic Oracle, and featured in Best Indie Speculative Fiction 2021. (SFF) (flash)
- Midnight at the Crossroads Diner in Twist in Time Magazine, reprinted in Syncopation Literary Journal (SFF) (flash)
- Penny the Poisonmonger: An Origin Story Featured in Best Indie Speculative Fiction 2020. Originally published in Enchanted Conversation: Fairy Tales, Folktales & Myths. (SFF) (flash)
- Disinhibited in Mad Scientist Journal (SFF) (short)
- Little Tiger in Copperfield Review (Hist) (flash)
CREATIVE NONFICTION
- Limeade Thunder in Syncopation Literary. Originally published in The Potential of Radio and Rain (flash)
- Temporal Aspects of Human Physiology, Contemplated In the Aftermath of a Dragon Attack in Typehouse Issue 25 (flash)
- We Were the Wild Hunt Editors’ Choice Selection for the 2021 CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award. Read the Author’s Note here. Also a winner in the WOW Women on Writing creative nonfiction contest. (flash)
- Risk Ratio in JMWW (micro)
- Playground Doctrine Pushcart nominated, winner of the 2020 Lascaux Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Originally featured in Atlas and Alice, as well as Pink Panther Magazine. (flash)
- And They Lived Happily Ever After in Writers Resist (micro)
- Driving Like a Boss in SugarSugarSalt. Originally printed in Furious Gravity IX, A Grace and Gravity Anthology by women writers from the Washington, DC-area. Available on Kindle and from Politics & Prose. (flash)
- How to Feed the Yellow Cat in Dead Housekeeping (micro)
- First Impressions in Funny Pearls (Humor) (flash)
- Unfit for Domestication in Funny Pearls (Humor) (flash)
HUMOR & SCREWBALL COMEDY
- Urban Asset in The Lit Nerds (Action/Spy/Comedy) (short)
- The Great Chickenomachy of Chandler County, Kentucky in MetaStellar Magazine (SFF/comedy)(flash)
- Unfit for Domestication in Funny Pearls (CNF) (flash)
- Sharpest Teeth in the Swamp in Janus Literary (micro)
- 5 Ways to Fail at Killing the Centipede on Your Ceiling Because Your Husband is Laughing Too Hard to Help and Why Even Be Married if You Still Have to Kill Your Own Bugs? in Funny Pearls ezine and The Funny Pearls Collection (available on Amazon) (flash)
- Lockdown Riff in The Daily Drunk (micro) (NSFW)
- Book Club Dip in Funny Pearls. Winner of the WOW! Women on Writing Summer 2022 Flash Fiction Contest. (flash)
- It’s Not Christmas Without Butter in Funny Pearls and in The Little Book of Funny Pearls Christmas Stories (flash)
- For More Options, Press 9 in AntipodeanSF (micro) (speculative) (Feel free to use a binary-to-text translator to decipher the binary strings!)
- Q. Can I Hunt Underwater Zombies With Your New Chainsaw, And If Not, Does the Warranty Cover Water Damage? in Defenestration (short)
- The Other Side in LOL Comedy (short)
- A New Year Dawns at Happy Hills in Funny Pearls (short)
- Silver Dollar Davis and the Mediocre Meteorite Caper in Defenestration (flash)
- GTFO! in The Daily Drunk (CNF) (micro)
- The Legend of Garalinda in Fudoki Magazine (flash)
- The Posh City in LOL Comedy (short)
- First Impressions in Funny Pearls (CNF) (flash)
- Teeth, Hair & Eyes, LLC in Defenestration (flash)
SATIRE & Social Commentary
- What Did You Wish For? in Writers Resist (short) (SFF)
- Suburban Survival in Writers Resist (micro)
- Suburban Median in Writers Resist (micro)
- The Unspooling in Unlikely Stories Mark V (flash)
- American Ouroboros in the Writers Resist special issue on gun violence (flash)
- Be Sure in Unlikely Stories Mark V (flash)
