Free-to-Consume Works

Here are some free-to-read, free-to-listen, and free-to-watch works! To see all works, go here.

“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…”

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)
November 2025
Issue 51 (Fair Field Scribes)

  • “The fly in my drink climbs the ice cubes like an explorer. I can’t look away…”

“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…”

“Losing Her” (Flash)
June 2025
June Fiction (Neon Dystopia)

  • “Saffron knew something was wrong the moment her husband turned their daughter off…”

“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 diner coffee 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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.

“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…”