Short fiction
& other work published in literary journals and elsewhere. Unless otherwise noted, these pieces are written for an adult audience.
Extremely Honest Guidelines for Specialty Niche Local Literary Quarterly Review Journal, Emrys Journal Online, October 22, 2018
humour
Full Moon, Rune Bear, The Weekly, October 17, 2019
microfiction
Terrine, Bending Genres, Issue 14, April 7, 2020
flash fiction
Daughterhood, Oxford Magazine, Issue 44, Summer 2020
short fiction
Chippendales, Litro Online, Story Sunday, September 20, 2020
short fiction
Ornamental Scarves, The Ilanot Review, TOXIC issue, Fall 2020
(nominated by the editors for the Best Small Fictions anthology and Best of the Net)
flash fiction
A Run on Sausages, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of The Kurt Vonnegut Museum * Library, Issue No. 9: Civic Engagement, 2020
historical flash fiction
Chain of Thought, Meniscus Literary Journal, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2020
flash fiction
Two Women, Whistling Shade, Fall-Winter 2020
short story (print & online)
Monogamy, West Trade Review, online exclusive, December 28, 2020
short story
Teacher, Lily Poetry Review, Winter 2021, Issue 5
flash fiction (print only)
Transubstantiation, MORIA, Issue 7, Spring 2021
microfiction
Elegy 451, TERSE, May 23, 2021
microfiction
Living in the Suburbs, Rise Up Review, Summer 2021
micro/prose poetry
Swans Don’t Always Sing, Popshot Quarterly, Issue 33, Autumn 2021
flash fiction (print & digital subscription)
Lime Tree in Michigan, MASKS Literary Magazine, Fall 2021
poem
Where She Stores Her Day, The Ilanot Review, Ephemera(l), Fall 2021
(nominated by the editors for the Best Microfiction anthology)
microfiction
Potato Season, Capsule Stories, Winter 2021 Edition: Sugar & Spice
(nominated by the editor for the Pushcart Prize)
poem
Five Steps Away, Five South: The Weekly, December 2021
flash fiction
A Comfortable Distance and What I Remember Emerging From a Wringer Washer, Slant: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 36
two poems
Rave, Landlocked, 4.1
microfiction
Urban Geography, Lost Balloon, April 6, 2022
prose poetry
Continuum of Omnivorous Behavior, The Dribble Drabble Review, Spring 2022
drabble (100-word story)
It’s Not a Competition, But I Compare Our Knees, Mortal , April 2022
flash creative nonfiction, 2021 Essay Prize Finalist
Small Spaces, The Sandy River Review, Volume 42, 2022
poem
Mea Culpa, pacificREVIEW 2022: Atlantis and other lost places
prose
Water and Land, Brink No. 4, Certainty
(nominated by the editors for the Best Small Fictions anthology)
fiction
Attic Dweller, NUNUM Winter 2022, Volume 5, Issue 4
short fiction (nominated by the editors for the Pushcart Prize)
Premonition, Monkeybicycle February 10, 2023
short fiction/flash
Hidden Truths of Reupholstering, phoebe, volume 52.1, Winter 2023
(nominated by the editors for the 2024 Pushcart Prize)
short fiction
Soap and Water, ninth letter: invisibility, Summer 2023
fiction
American Tea, Stanchion Number Thirteen, October 2023
(nominated by the editor for the 2024 Pushcart Prize)
short fiction
Lime Tree in Michigan, Rooted: Arboreal Nonfiction, October 13, 2023
poem (reprint)
Rewilding Suburbia, RockPaperPoem, December 2023
poem
Hey, Lady, Barzakh, Winter 2024
poem
My Basement Is Full of Toys, Junk, and Memories, Kveller, April 3, 2019
creative nonfiction
The Spectator, Third Wednesday, Vol. XII, No. 3, Summer 2019
flash fiction (print copies only)
Librarian, SmokeLong Quarterly, Issue Sixty-Six, November 11, 2019
flash fiction
Gun Republic, Jellyfish Review, Committing Crimes Issue, April 26, 2020
flash fiction
Lists, Across the Margin, May 18, 2020
flash fiction
Millennium, Not Very Quiet, Issue 7, September 14, 2020
poem
The Girl’s Piano, Great Lakes Review, October 1, 2020
short fiction
First of September, Flash Frontier, MACHINES, September 2020
microfiction
Story of a Princess, EAP: The Magazine, Fall 2020: Sort Of.
short fiction
Little Red: A Memoir of the True Red Riding Hood, Gramarye: The Journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, Issue 18, Winter 2020
short fiction (print only)
A Coronavirus Yoga Practice, The Syndrome, 2020
humour essay
Assumption on Woman with a Wagon, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, February 4, 2021
creative nonfiction
Suburban Garden Evicts Vegetables, South Broadway Ghost Society, March 2021, Language of the Earth issue
poem
The World According to Oliver, Nymphs, April 16, 2021
poem
A Dystopia in Decades, Splonk, Issue 5, May 2021
flash fiction
Grapes, South Florida Poetry Journal, August 2021
microfiction
How My Cousin Who Ran Away in the 80s Spent Her Last Hours, The /tƐmz/ Review, Issue Sixteen, Summer 2021
micro prose
Surge, The Dribble Drabble Review, Fall 2021, Issue 4
dribble (50-word fiction)
You Run Away: Musings on a Song, Porter House Review, Field Notes November 1, 2021
creative nonfiction
Knell, Five on the Fifth, Vol. 7, Issue 1, November 5, 2021
one sentence poem
Bavaria, Miracle Monocle, Issue 17, Fall 2021
short fiction
Impermanence, The Birdseed, Vol. 1, Issue 3 December 2021
microfiction
Nights to Nowhere, 1987, The Brooklyn Review
creative nonfiction
What to Read Next: A Mosaic of Literature Selections for All Ages, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Issue 56
review
The Dollar Is A General, Variety Pack, Issue 7
(nominated by the editors for the Best Microfiction anthology)
microfiction
Conjuring an Existence, The Elevation Review, April 2022
poem
Ameliorate & Reverse Cancer, About Place Journal, “Navigations: A Place for Peace,” Volume VII, Issue 1, May 2022
poems
How to Tell a Love Story, X-R-A-Y, June 15, 2022
flash fiction
Motorcycle Man, Sūdō Journal, Volume 4, August 2022
short fiction
Open House, Inkwell No. 37, Spring 2022
short fiction
This Isn’t Meditation, It’s Simulation, Flyover Country, October 30, 2022
poem
Outlining, Cheat River Review, Issue 17, Fall 2022 “Fall Formal”
creative non-fiction collaboration
You are there and I am here, Barely South Review, Fall/Winter 2023, Volume 14.1
poem
Surgeon, descant volume 61, 2022
short fiction
Reclamation, takahē 107, April 2023
micro fiction (print only)
December Sky, Rock & Sling 17.1
poem
Assiduous, The Worcester Review, Volume XLIV, Numbers 1 & 2
(nominated by the editors for the 2024 Pushcart Prize)
flash fiction (print only)
Steady as a Surgeon, Iron Horse Literary Review, Volume 25.2, Party Issue, February 2024
fiction
8:46 on a Wednesday, The Emerson Review, vol. 48, Spring 2019
flash fiction
The Rabbit Sister, Leopardskin & Limes, October 25, 2019
flash fiction
Long Gray Road, Critical Read, Art is Essential series, April 14, 2020
creative nonfiction
Top Ten Vocabulary Words to Give Your Novel or Short Story the Illusion of Literary Prestige, Little Old Lady Comedy, May 15, 2020
humour
Gravitational Pull, Border Crossing, Issue 10, September 1, 2020 (nominated by the editors for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net)
short fiction
Forever Tulips, Taproot Magazine, Issue 41: Extend, September 2020
personal essay (print only)
Horizon, New World Writing, October 1, 2020
microfiction
Crossing, matchbook, November 30, 2020
flash fiction
Outside and In, Local Honey | Midwest, December 4, 2020
poem
La La La La, Gone Lawn, Issue 39, Winter Solstice 2020
flash fiction
We Were All Okay With It, Dispatch from a Pandemic, Another Chicago Magazine, January 29, 2021
lyric essay
End of Monroe, CutBank Online, March 5, 2021
flash fiction
Shall I Put Down a Waffle For You?, NOON 2021
fiction (print only)
Deals With Little Readers, International School Parent, April 28, 2021
parenting article
Garrulous, Six Sentences, May 29, 2021
microfiction
Mouse Breath: A Rodent Horror Story, Crow Toes Quarterly, The Lost Issue, No.2, July 2021
poem (middle grade) (print & pdf)
Untitled, The Dillydoun Review, September 2021, Issue 8
flash nonfiction
A Series of Pains to the Chest, Bacopa Literary Review 2021
prose poem (print only)
Rest, nurture, November 18, 2021
micro
Millennium, Not Very Quiet: the anthology (Recent Work Press)
poem (reprint)
Ode to Olympe de Gouges, The Elpis Pages: A Collective
poem (print only)
Today, the Amphibian, Issue One, Autumn/Winter 2021, Hiraeth
poem (print only)
Mother, The Shore, Issue 13, March 2022
poem
Transubstantiation, Miramichi Flash, April 22, 2022
microfiction (reprint)
Surge, The Dribble Drabble Review I-V, anthology
microfiction/dribble/50-word fiction
We Sit in Restaurants, The Broadkill Review, Summer, vol 16.3
short fiction
Dandelion Nights, Plainsongs, Summer 2022
poem
Eclipse, MoonPark Review, Issue 21, Fall 2022
(nominated by the editors for the Best Microfiction anthology)
microfiction
Chopsticks and Other Kitchen Utensils, Hermine, Issue 3
fiction
Funeral of Lost Things, Chapter House Journal, Winter 2023
poem
Writing While Biking, Blue Earth Review, Issue 29, Fall 2022
creative nonfiction
Poem Versus Novel, Why I Like to Write About Flowers, Person X, Qua, Winter 2023
poems
Saturday Mornings, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, August 1, 2023
flash fiction
We Were All Once Shiny and New, Necessary Fiction, August 16, 2023
flash fiction
Beer City, Cutleaf All About Beer Special Issue, September 2023
poem
A Particular Sense of Highway Comradery, Slag Glass City, October 2023
creative nonfiction
Beamsville, Ontario, Welter, Fall 2023 Digital Lit Issue
creative nonfiction
Praise for the Living, LIGHT blog
poem
Reading and Watching Soil: Two Reviews Intertwine, Mom Egg Review, April 25, 2024
review