“What I’m Made Of” (Short Story)
December 2025
Issue 9 (Inner Worlds Zine)
- “Mother says I’m made of mud, eyes, and a little bit of the past…”
“Scribbles” (Short Story)
December 2025
Behind the Revolving Door Volume II (Celestial Echo Press)
- “Seeing my family on my third week as a dinner server at Frankie and Abby’s was strange. But not as strange as my nephew, Connor, get sand everywhere as he drew with his yellow crayon…”
“Green Lake: The Game” (Short Story)
November 2025
The Muddy Goose Guide to the Weird Northwest (Demagogue Press)
- “GAME COMPONENTS
1 flashlight
1 water bottle
1 pair of walking shoes
1 coffee from a local shop (optional)
1 empty womb…” - Note: This story is written as board game instructions
Nominated for the PUSHCART
“Results for Replic 264.A” (Flash)
November 2025
November Fiction (Neon Dystopia)
- “<results for instances of “why”>…”
- Note: This story is told in fake code
“Out to Eat With My Parents for the Tenth Time This Week” (Drabble)
October 2025
Issue 51 (Fair Field Scribes)
- “The fly in my drink climbs the ice cubes like an explorer. I can’t look away…”
“Her Smile” (Short Story)
September 2025
Book 2 (Frost Zone Stories)
- “Seven minutes before I get pulled through the escalator, my fiancée disappears through the automatic doors of the mall and I follow…”
“Foundations” (Short Story)
August 2025
This Exquisite Topology (Angry Gable Press)
- “Beth’s house was falling apart. Every few years, she needed to replace the old wooden steps that descended into the waves during high tide or fix the cracks in the foundation…”
“Memory Loss” (Flash)
August 2025
August Fiction (Cosmorama)
- “The funeral was gray. No one thought to wear bright colors, certainly not Mae, even though most of her wardrobe was rainbow…”
“Just Visiting” (Short Story)
August 2025
Issue 62 (Cosmic Horror Monthly)
- “A few days before I turned into a pregnant snake and knew what it actually meant to love my daughter, I showed up at her house…”
- Note: Cosmic Goblins, who produced the audio version of this story, posted the narrated story and the author interview in the same audio file. If you’d like to listen on Spotify, click the green button. If you’d like to listen on YouTube, click the purple button. Both have the interview and story.
“Seattle Freeze” (Short Story)
July 2025
Back Into the Ground (Caretaker Press)
- “‘The Mountain is out today,’ I say as I put on my sunglasses, though it’s 50° outside. Guess that’s late June for you…”
“My Heart Goes Out to Her” (Short Story)
July 2025
Madam, Don’t Forget Your Sword (Dead Fish Books)
- “Cassandra sat on the swing set and ate my heart like an apple. Blood dripped down her crocheted, fingerless gloves, clots getting caught in the stitches.”
“Losing Her” (Flash)
June 2025
June Fiction (Neon Dystopia)
- “Saffron knew something was wrong the moment her husband turned their daughter off…”
“Museum of Humanity” (Short Story)
March 2025
Rescuing Curiosity (WriteHive)
- “The door creaked as I opened it, light cascading through the glass in a thousand tiny fragments that reminded me of my favorite show as a kid: The Speed of Light…”
“Picking My Body” (Flash)
March 2025
Issue 1 (Meat4Meat)
- “I pick at the hard padding of my thumb. If I dig hard enough, I’ll release myself from my chair and into my packed-up bedroom…”
“You and I and I and You” (Flash)
March 2025
Spring 2025 Issue (Heartlines Spec)
- “—we’ll meet for the first time in a
tavern saloon dinercoffee shop. I know it’s you because I’ve been looking for you all of my lives and it’s always you…”
“Subscribe Today!” (Flash)
March 2025
Spring 2025 Issue (A Coup of Owls)
- “I don’t feel like myself, Carolyn thought, touching her face in the mirror…”
“In Tandem” (Flash)
March 2025
Flash Point SF
- “Something triggered Wallace’s motion sensor doorbell and caused him to jump in the middle of heating up his microwave dinner. For a moment, he thought it was Edgar…”
“Treasures and Ghosts” (Short Story)
February 2025
Nonbinary Review Issue 39 (Zoetic Press)
- “‘So, where’s this dragon?’ Livy says, wandering around the seemingly empty dark room…”
“Becoming a Home” (Short Story)
December 2024
OTHER (Bannister Press)
- “I pick at the window glass Shedding from underneath my fingernails and knock on Mom’s door…”
“Dead Quiet” (Flash)
December 2024
Xanax Hamster No. 2 (From Beyond Press)
- “Sometimes, when Ann Marie’s husband was quiet, she liked to pretend he was dead. It was moments like these that she relished…”
“The Box” (Flash)
November 2024
Patreon (Black Hare Press)
- “The box sits on my porch, stained like rotting wood. It barely takes up the small circle in the middle of my welcome mat…”
“Living Wallet” (Short Story)
October 2024
Issue One (Edge City)
- “My wallet is a living thing that shapes, molds, and bends as I enter card after card.
I take out a wad of cash and it collapses visibly, almost like letting out a sigh of relief from dropping the weight of the world…”
“Notion” (Short Story)
October 2024
Issue Seven (Fiery Scribe Review)
- “Keenovation Inc. built Notion A and B to fix all of humanity’s problems, to generate ideas so people didn’t have to, and to solve everything more efficiently so that people could spend their time consuming instead of generating.
But Notion A hadn’t produced anything in three months…”
“Tethered” (Short Story)
October 2024
A Brood of Vampires (West Avenue Publishing)
- “Clava smashed her fist against the bulkhead. The ship’s control panel sparkled like a galaxy, and klaxons would have blasted her ears if there’d been any atmosphere left to let the alarms travel…”
“Recreate and Remember” (Short Story)
October 2024
Issue 147 (Space and Time)
- “Ara’zon taunted them; its purple-walled canyons and endless caverns stared from all sides, threatening any hope that remained…”
“The World Below” (Short Story)
September 2024
Summer 2024 (Dragon Gems)
- “The capsule, while small, held more than ten thousand eggs. The entirety of a generation. It was our hope, our life, our future. I couldn’t tell exactly which ones I had incubated, but I knew they were in there, waiting to be born on the planet below: a place I couldn’t reach…”
“Blood of the Juniper Tree” (Short Story)
September 2024
Ghastly and Grimm (Pawsitively Creepy)
- “It all started with her blood.
One drop, falling on a root of the juniper tree, seeping into the bark and climbing up the winding branches…”
“May Her Roots Grow Strong” (Short Story)
August 2024
Issue 2 (Mukoli Magazine)
- “The other Aborians were dying before I even felt the poison touch my roots. Old and young, wilting with each new season. We would all pass eventually…”
“Smile” (Flash)
August 2024
Patreon (Black Hare Press)
- ““You know,” the dentist says through his full-face mask as he slides over a blue tray of tools. “I was born a liar.”
I nod like I know what he’s talking about…”
“The End of the World, the Dark Young, and Jessica” (Short Story)
June 2024
Necronomin-RomCom (Transformations by Obsidian Butterfly LLC)
- “Exactly a year after Russ and I got divorced, I took our teenage son to the pet store.
I’m not exactly sure what I was hoping for. Maybe he would look at me, grin, and tell me I was the best mom ever. Hell, I would even settle for a glance…”
“Before I Died…” (Short Story)
June 2024
Moving Across the Landscape in Search of an Idea (Air and Nothingness Press)
- “Before I Died, We Fought About The Silly Things:
The Extra Plate Neither Of Us Wanted To Clean
The Extra Shirt In Our Washing
The Roses You Bought For Our Daughter’s Recital Even Though She Loved Daisies (You Like Roses, Not Her)…” - Note: This anthology is a collection of stories with verbose titles, concise narratives, and copious notes, in multiple genres.
“Stage of the Mundane” (Short Story)
June 2024
Issue 27 (The Temz Review)
- “The night I saw my wife die, I was washing blackberries in the kitchen. My daughters were upstairs napping. Anne, my wife, was in the other room, watching Season 3 of The Bachelor…”
“Bert” (Short Story)
May 2024
Issue 1 (Baubles from Bones)
- “By the time Isabella had put the last piece of athletic tape on her knee, it was too late.
The pink strips glowed green, almost popping off her skin. She tried to peel them off, but the kinesiology tape wouldn’t budge. First, putting on the tape felt like being possessed, and now this.
So much for a chill track season…”
“Rest for the Weary” (Short Story)
May 2024
Issue 01 (Decapitate)
- “It starts with cake in the workroom, white with bright pink frosting, dripping in sugar and high fructose corn syrup.
I stare at the frosting. I can already feel the inevitable stomachache. It’s probably left over from a kid’s birthday celebration, one of the over-involved parents that wanted to one-up every other kid’s parents…”
“The Flame of Hymenaeus” (Short Story)
March 2024
March 2024 Issue (Carmina Magazine)
- “The planet looked dead, which is why E knew it was where she wanted her wedding.
Pale streaks caked the layers of the sand-colored mesas. The depthless white sky made everything bright. There were no trees, no grasses, no shelter from the blasting sun…”
“Lost in Target” (Short Story)
March 2024
Issue 057 (Luna Station Quarterly)
- “I was taking a dump in the back stall of the Target bathroom, when I saw her, staring at me through those damned gaps. She had her hair in high pigtails and was wearing a watermelon dress.
“What do ya want?” I grunted, hoping no one else was in the bathroom beside us.
“I lost my mom,” she whispered…”
“Genie Incorporated” (Short Story)
December 2023
Year Five (Black Hare Press)
- “Sitting in the parking lot of the hospital, I paused my finger over the keypad. My thumb shook, but there were no options left. I punched down the numbers one at a time. It rang.
“Hello, welcome to Genie Incorporated, a proud winner of the Velle Award. We make your dreams a reality,” a computer’s voice spoke…”
“Bedtime Routine” (Flash)
November 2023
Issue One (Inner Worlds)
- “Brush your teeth. Spend equal amounts of time on each tooth. Count if you need to. Try not to look at yourself in the mirror…”
- NOTE: This work was reprinted as a one-act in October 2024 with Delta Literary Arts Society for their Killer Verse Literary Night of Terror.
“Hide-and-Seek” (Short Story)
November 2023
December Tales II (Curious Blue Press)
- “The house had good bones. That’s how the girls down at the real estate office would have spun it. They didn’t talk about the rumors of it being haunted. Of how deep beneath its stained oak floors, something rotten festered…”
“The Shadows” (Short Story)
October 2023
Patreon Exclusive (Creepy Podcast)
- “I always hated working night shifts. Something about the way shadows lurked, the silence that surrounded every step, and the lack of any interaction for hours on end made me start seeing things. And now that I knew my ex was after me for breaking up with her, I dreaded the shift even more…”
“Just a Few Moments” (Flash)
October 2023
Killer Verse (Delta Literary Arts Society)
- “Ada didn’t want to leave her car. She needed a just few moments to decompress after work before going inside to her wife and child. It wasn’t that she hated them, but sometimes the world around her spun faster than she wanted it to, and she found herself clinging to seconds of silence to stay sane…”
“The Charade of 1812” (Short Story)
September 2023
Issue XVI (All Worlds Wayfarer)
- “The sky looks depthless. If you stare at it for long enough, you can feel your mind beginning to lose focus—lose itself—in the endless drizzle above the dim green fields. Until reality brings you back, that is.
“Blimey, Henry!” you shout as your baby bites down on your nipple. Ever since he started growing teeth, your breasts have become his battleground…”
“Built for Her” (Short Story)
September 2023
Issue 055 (Luna Station Quarterly)
- “It took weeks to make her, to carve every strand of hair, every scar, every nail and bump and ridge out of the clay. It took even longer to make the heart, to enchant every few centimeters of wire and to bend it in just the right way. But when she was done, Cassandra almost cried. Naomi looked as beautiful as the day she left…”
“They Named Me Hope” (Flash)
June 2023
Gargantua Anthology (Air and Nothingness Press)
- “I dig.
They build sun traps.
With every rotation, it grows and consumes.
I think they forgot about me, about the mission. They forgot sunlight is my life force.
They used to want progress reports. Now, they don’t. I dig into the icy surface and it hisses. My only friends are the planet and my tools. We’ll always be here, together…”
FORTHCOMING
- “Foundations”
- “Green Lake: The Game”
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