essays, poems & other publications

FICTION,

MORE STORIES

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•  "Endurance: A Handbook for Single Mothers" at Sunday Salon

• "Static Time" in apt (fiction)

• "The Prize at the End of This" in Curly Red Stories (creative non-)

• Novel Excerpt: "We Arrive Uninvited" in WIPs Journal

• "An Awkward Grief" in Bound Off #90

• "Like Water" in Flash Frontier (global edition)

• "Gasoline" in The Bombay Literary Magazine

• "The Suit" in Burrow Press Review

• "We Arrive Uninvited" (fiction about monsters) in A cappella Zoo 11

• "WWCBAR" (fiction/print) in Skidrow Penthouse

• "Girls Don't Sit in the Back" (fiction) in Prick of the Spindle

• "Nothing" in Eunoia Review

• "Rita Forgives the World" in Eunoia Review

• "After the Gazebo" in ARDOR

• "Don't Tease the Elephants" (fiction) in Monkeybicycle

• "When Pretty People Disappoint" (fiction) in JMWW

• "When Pretty People Disappoint" (audio)

• "Weightless" (fiction) in Lost in Thought 4

• "The Regular" (fiction) in The Istanbul Review

• "In Transit" (experimental fiction) in Stone Highway Review

• "Order Up" for NPR's Three-minute Fiction Contest

• "No Worries" in EDGE v6 (fiction/print)

• "Monday" in Thrush (poetry)

• "Getting There" in PANK (fiction)

• "A Good Deed" in Independent Ink Magazine (fiction)

• "A Glimpse" in Thumbnail Magazine (fiction)

• "The Warning" at r.kv.r.y (fiction)

• "Synchronicity" at Gargoyle (fiction)

• "Charity" at Conium Review (fiction)

• Exquisite Quartet Anthology

• "A Good Meal" in Blue Five Notebook (poetry)

• Columbus, Ohio at Narrative Magazine (essay)

• "Absurd Hunger" and Interview at Connotation Press (fiction)

• "Needy Kids" in Bluestem Magazine (fiction)

• "Types of Circus" in fwriction : review (fiction)

• "Encased" in Black Fox Literary Journal (fiction)

• "The Driver" in The Criterion: An International Journal in English

• "Ego" in Subliminal Interiors (poetry, 07/11)

• "The Code" in Global Short Story Competition - 2011 May - Winning Story '(fiction 06/11)

• "The Proposal" in Independent Ink Magazine (fiction 06/11)

• "Anxiety is" in Pure Slush (essay 06/11)

• Ramshackle Review (05/11 - prose poetry)

• "On 'Friend'ship" in Pure Slush (essay 05/11)

• "Disengaged" in Short Story America Anthology (hardcover, 2011)

• "A Glimpse" (first printing) in Eclectic Flash (fiction/audio 05/11)

• Used Furniture Review (04/11)

• 52|250 A Year of Flash/under wraps 03/11

• 52|250 A Year of Flash/to the core 03/11

• "A Little Taste of Heaven" in BARTLEBY SNOPES (fiction 01/11 - Story of the Month!)

• ANNALEMMA MAGAZINE (print/essay, 2010))

• Best of 2010: Eclectic Flash (print/fiction)

• Eclectic Flash (fiction, 2010)

• Flashquake (nonfiction)

• FOUNDLING REVIEW (fiction, 2010)

• Gently Read Literature (review of "Between Panic and Desire" 2010)

• San Antonio Current (flash, 2010)

• "Levity" in METAZEN (fiction, 2010)

• Midwest Literary Magazine (fiction, 2010)

• Short Story America (fiction, 2010)

• San Antonio Current (print/fiction, 2009)

• SUPERSTITION REVIEW (fiction, 2009)

• "Relapse" in The Houston Literary Review (flash/prose poetry)

• "Solitary Value" in Slow Trains (fiction, 2008)

• "Animal Control" in Uno Kudo 3

• Quiz & Quill (print/fiction, script)

• "Polygon" in Chicago Literati

• "Gather the Ingredients" in Chicago Tribune's Printers Row (story available for purchase)

• "On No-nut Butters" in McSweeney's Internet Tendency

• "Luna" in SFWP Quarterly

• "Open Times" and "The Inconvenience of It All" in Saturday Evening Post

• Literary Orphans

• Cheap Pop

• The Best Small Fictions 2017

   

  • Chicago Quarterly Review v23

  • Cosmonauts Avenue

  • Pine Hills Review

  • Cleaver Magazine

  • Litbreak

  • Midway Journal

  • Crannóg Magazine

  • Per Contra

  • Atticus Review

  • Superstition Review

  • Fiction Attic Press

  • Connotation Press 

Forthcoming:

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• The New Guard X

• MoonPark Review

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New:

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• "Dandelion Ghosts" in Flash Fiction Magazine (Editor's Choice winner)

• "Emotional Intelligence" in Cutthroat Lit Mag

• "Jupiter" and other poems in The Writing Disorder

Read today:

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• "Gather the Ingredients" in Chicago Tribune

• "Scratching the Silver" in Per Contra

• "Salt" in Little Fictions

• "#CONNECTED" in Thrice ​

• "Circling Home" in Poor Claudia (poetry)

• "Rideshare" in JMWW

• "Lost Her Way" in JUKED

• "Columbus, Ohio" in Narrative Magazine

• Click HERE for an early excerpt of Resolutions in Fairlight Books' story series: "Sensory Details."

• Click on the HERE for an essay on dealing with bad days. ​

• If you're ready to put your phone in airplane mode, check out The Disconnect 

• "The Regulars" in Flexible Persona

• ."Gather the Ingredients" in Press Americana

• "Lottery Days" in Literary Orphans

• "Open Times" in The Saturday Evening Post

• "Lucky" in Little Fiction

• "Our Sky, the Ocean" in Lunch Ticket

• "Gather the Ingredients" in Press Americana

• "The Slope of a Line" in Litbreak

• "The Inconvenience of It All" at The Saturday Evening Post

• "Gasoline" at Bombay Lit Mag

• "A Perpetual State of Awe" at Atticus Review

• "The White Room" at Blue Fifth Review, The Blue Collection 5

• "My Children in Times New Roman" at Room Magazine

• "West on N Road" at Superstition Review

• "The Chef" at Fiction Attic Press

• "Two Flew Away" at Midway Journal

• "Beyond the Thin Line" in A-Minor 

• "Lying to Old Men" in The Adirondack Review

• "With a Shot" at Litro Online

• "Getting There" in PANK