Soap and Water

Thank you to Michael Hurley and the ninth letter team for including my short fiction in the summer online issue. The theme was invisibility. Here’s the opening from the editorial note:

With this theme, we asked our writers to show us what we cannot see, from the hidden lines that connect us to the secret walls that keep us separate. We asked our writers to find the ghosts that haunt the edges, and to capture them before they disappear. We asked not just to see, but to be made to believe. And so they did. And so, we do.

What then lies beneath, behind, below? 

“Soap and Water” addresses invisibility from a service perspective.

Impermanence

The Birdseed has published my tiny story “Impermanence” in this gorgeous issue (click image to read). Thank you, Kourtney Jai, for selecting my work, and for celebrating small fictions. Here is what she says about this issue:

The Birdseed celebrates short fiction–stories of 150 words or less. We’re drawn to short fiction for a few reasons: it is in many ways a more accessible medium to read, it takes a whole lot of talent to write, it provides a challenge to the imagination, and it invokes mystery. Short fiction, by necessity, leaves much unsaid. And it is in what’s unsaid that this issue takes shape.

These 38 pieces are beautifully crafted, without exception. They delight and they linger and they swerve, stars making way for sea and the dark and things even deeper. They show and they impress and they trust you, reader, to find the gaps and embrace what’s left unsaid.


Garrulous

New micro fiction up today at Six Sentences, which is, as you may have guessed, a place where everything is told within six sentences. Thanks, Rob McEvily, for choosing this piece.

The Girl's Piano

Thank you to Great Lakes Review for publishing this short fiction about music, climate anxiety, and persistence. Check out the gorgeous photo by Mark Skrobola accompanying the story. I’ve lived in the Great Lakes region, either ten minutes from Lake Ontario or thirty minutes from Lake Michigan, my entire life. I’m especially happy to be included in a journal that highlights this region.