Stories are categorized by: Literary Fiction, Genre Fiction (Speculative, Historical, Pulp), Creative Nonfiction, Humor, and Satire.
FICTION – LITERARY
- Blackberry Nights in Cease, Cows (micro)
- Slippin’ Away in Tangled Locks Journal (micro)
- To My American Daughter-In-Law in The Sunlight Press, nominated for Best Microfiction 2023 (micro)
- The Hollowing of Her Bones in Fractured Lit. An exquisite corpse project by the Flash It Better writing group. (flash)
- They Were the Years of Fat Water in Cheap Pop (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 in Height Chart, winner of the Editor’s Choice Award, and nominated for Best of the Net 2023 (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 2023. (micro)
- Transmission in The Birdseed (micro)
- Like a Starward Rocket in New World Writing (micro)
- Borderland in WWPH Writes. Nominated for Best Microfiction 2022. (micro)
- A Practical Guide to Making Rain in The Citron Review. Included in the 2022 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist. (micro)
- The Unknowing in Six Sentences (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! (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
- Come Out, Come Out in Radon Journal (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 (SFF) (micro)
- Empire in Gone Lawn (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
- 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. Click the Author’s Note button for a short look at the origin of the story. (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)
- GTFO! in The Daily Drunk (Humor) (micro)
HUMOR & SCREWBALL COMEDY
- 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
- 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)