Stories

If This Reaches You
In the valley there are wild goats. They patrol the wandering fields, grazing the grass down to a fuzz, dandelion stems hanging from their comical mouths.
Read in Southern Humanities Review
The Baker's Wife
She did something else before this—she might even have done it well. Refugee resettlement advocate, dental hygienist, accountant, small claims court lawyer, social media manager, physical therapist, insurance agent, pharmacist, dance teacher.
Read in Adroit
Work Experience
In the intern cave we are hungry. It is Wednesday and we were promised pizza for lunch, but no one knows when it will arrive, or who will be called to retrieve it.
Read in West Branch
King of Thieves
They both still played the game. In the evenings after work they would log on around the same time, Louisa with some takeout dinner propped between her keyboard and monitor, Greg seeming not to have eaten or slept since the last time they played.
Read in Idaho Review

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“Lisa in the Third Grade”
swamp pink (Issue 25)

“King of Thieves”
Idaho Review (Issue 22)

“The Baker’s Wife”
Adroit (Issue 52)

“Work Experience”
West Branch (Issues 107 & 108)

“Quaint Hometown Christmas Festivals Are Costing Me All My Best Employees”
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (2024)

“If This Reaches You”
Southern Humanities Review (Fiction Feature)

“Habit”
Adroit (Issue 49)
Anthony Veasna So Scholar in Fiction

“Big Steve”
TriQuarterly (Issue 165)

“OptiDream”
The Normal School (2022)

“The Woman or Girl in the House or Vehicle”
The Rupture (Issue 118)

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“Principles of Mind Expansion”
Ninth Letter (forthcoming)

“Replacement”
Alaska Quarterly Review (forthcoming)

“Afterparty”
American Chordata (forthcoming)

“In the Afterwards”
Florida Review (Issue 49.1)

“Nothing That Counts”
One Story (Issue #317)
Listed in Best American Short Stories “Distinguished Stories” (2025 Edition)

“The Show”
Fence Magazine (Spring 2024)

“Any Day Now”
Indiana Review (Issue 44.1)

“Just in Case”
Ninth Letter (Volume 19, Issue 01)

“RecomMEN”
Ploughshares (Summer 2020)
Pushcart Prize Anthology (XLVI)