Fiction
2021
“*69,” forthcoming in The Best Small Fictions 2021 (originally published in SmokeLong Quarterly), (tbd)
“Petiteness,” forthcoming in Mid-American Review (tbd)
“Some Meaning–” and “Matt’s Basement” forthcoming in Best Microfiction 2021 (tbd)
Three pieces in Quarter After Eight, issue 27, spring 2021:
“In this fantasy I’m still friends with Amanda–“
“Magic Earplugs”
“Cooked”
“Helen Keller Lives,” New Flash Fiction Review, March, 2021
Four pieces in Gargoyle, Issue 72:
“<In theory>”
“Panties”
“Snow Pose”
“Everything here is yours,” January, 2021
“Leonora’s Road Trip,” No Contact, January 2021
2020
“Don’t,” New South, issue 13.2, fall/winter 2020
“Charles Dickens Writes Me a Letter,” New Flash Fiction Review, December, 2020
“Matt’s Basement,” No Contact, November, 2020
“Eleanora,” Entropy, October, 2020
“As if from some great distance,” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, issue 58, 2020
“Minor Key” Puerto del Sol, July, 2020
“My Mother, the Light Fixture,” Yemassee, spring, 2020
“*69,” SmokeLong Quarterly, June, 2020
“Grandpa Cohen,” New Delta Review, May 2020
“Men in the Computer, II,” Superstition Review, May, 2020
“Some Meaning—,” The Cincinnati Review, April, 2020
“In this fantasy I am always watching Saturday morning cartoons—” The Ilanot Review, winter, 2020
“Campgate,” Booth, March, 2020
“The Jennifers,” Mid-American Review, winter, 2020
2019
“The List,” With One Eye on the Cows, an anthology of the Bath Flash Fiction Award, December, 2019
“Palabras,” translation of my story “Words” into Spanish, in the anthology, Instantáneas de ficción, Vol. 2; 2019; translation also appears in Susurros Chinos
“Uncle Billy,” matchbook, December, 2019
“In this fantasy Keanu Reeves saves me from myself—,” Vol. 1 Brooklyn, November, 2019
“Woods,” Milk Candy Review, November, 2019
and Two Questions for Leonora Desar
“Honey,” Lost Balloon, August, 2019
Six stories with No Tokens, June, 2019, including:
“The secret is Jack— ”
“This is Us (plus one)”
“How to Make a New Mother for That Holiday”
“Kevin!”
“Flotsam”
and
“Jersey”
Stories illustrated by Annabel Graham
“The age of the dinosaurs,” Flash Flood Journal, June, 2019
“<Three Ways of Saying the Same Thing>” New Flash Fiction Review, June, 2019
“My Father’s Girlfriend,” “The Monkey” and “Fire, Ocean” chosen for Best Microfiction 2019, guest-edited by Dan Chaon
Stories were originally published in matchbook, Reflex Fiction, and in TSS Publishing as the third place winner of the Flash 400 competition. April, 2019
“Catherine,”Wigleaf, April, 2019
(and my Dear Wigleaf, at Wigleaf)
“Three Stories About an Affair,” Paper Darts, April, 2019
“My Fake Brother,” Sonora Review Online, March, 2019
Republished in Miramichi Flash, July 2021
“Words,” New Flash Fiction Review, March, 2019
“Men’s Secrets,” CHEAP POP, February, 2019
“In this fantasy I went to live with my therapist—” Mid-American Review, issue 39.1; winter, 2019
“Something,” the Fanzine, January, 2019
2018
“Charmed,” Things Left and Found by the Side of the Road : Bath Flash Vol 3, an anthology of the Bath Flash Fiction Award, December, 2018
“No One’s Boyfriend,” Atticus Review, November, 2018
“Us,” CHEAP POP, September, 2018
“Things You Need to Know About My Grandma,” Jellyfish Review; Stories for Dead People special issue, August, 2018
“A naked woman shows up at the door,” Black Warrior Review, June, 2018
“Daughter,” River Styx, summer, 2018
“How to Bake an Earthquake,” Reflex Fiction, June, 2018
“The Hot Fudge Lady,” the National Flash Fiction Day 2018 Anthology, June, 2018
“Apples,” Flash Flood Journal, June, 2018
“Fire, Ocean,” TSS Publishing, May, 2018
“The Monkey,” Reflex Fiction, May, 2018
“Sunday Drives to See My Grandma,” TSS Publishing, April, 2018
“Hunger,” Quarter After Eight, Volume 24, spring, 2018
“Twelve,” Passages North, spring, 2018
“My Mother in the Floorboards,” New Flash Fiction Review, spring, 2018
“My Father’s Girlfriend, matchbook, March, 2018
“This is Saturday,” Hobart, March, 2018
“Aftershave and Soil,” SmokeLong Quarterly, January, 2018
2017
“Mania,” Blue Five Notebook, Twin Peaks’ issue (see Part 9), December, 2017
“Instagram Jesus,” Barrelhouse (online), December, 2017
“Disney,” The Lobsters Run Free, an anthology of the Bath Flash Fiction Award, December, 2017
2016
“Girls in Chalk,” Devil‘s Lake, fall, 2016
“The Abaya,” SmokeLong Quarterly, March, 2016
“Alice and Larissa,” Harpur Palate; Vol. 15, No. 2, February, 2016
“Alice and Larissa,” Republished in FLASH BOULEVARD, August, 2018
2014
“Blue Echo,” The Citron Review; December, 2014
“All the Sounds of China,” Bartleby Snopes; September, 2014 (Story of the Month)
“All the Sounds of China,” Republished in FLASH BOULEVARD, November, 2020
Creative Nonfiction
“Silent Running,” Prick of the Spindle; Issue 8.1, 2014
Leonora Desar 