“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.
Even if a hover searched for hours, it would never find anything but barren cliffs until it touched down on the surface. Then it would see the gene-spliced lichens that clung to the canyons and crevices. The beginning of life carving its way through death. A new beginning, duplicated and repeated in a slightly different way.
It was a representation of her relationship with O in many ways…”
“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. “If you have worked with us before, please type in your code and we’ll connect you to your representative.”
I typed in my code and a chime came through the other line…”
“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…”
“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
- “Recreate and Remember” with TBA (October 2024)
- “Reintegration” with Speculative City (2024)
- “The End of the World, The Dark Young, and Jessica” with Necronomi-RomCom Anthology (2024)
- “The World Below” with TBA (2024)
- “Dead Quiet” with TBA (2024)
- “Bert” with TBA (2024)
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