Fiction

“Pockets.” The Greensboro Review: print. (forthcoming)
“Simulacrum.” Shenandoah: print. (forthcoming)
“Fiction Writing.” Fractured Lit: online. 2025
“Analysis.” Flash Boulevard: online. 2025
“Original.” Flash Boulevard: online. 2025
“Long Game.” jmww: online. 2025
“Directions.” matchbook: online. 2025
“Heartburn.” Bellingham Review: online. 2025
“The Problem with Plants.” Ruby: online. 2024
“Romantic Weekend.” Ruby: online. 2024
“Detachable Arms.” Pithead Chapel: online. 2024
“Extinction.” Ark Review: online. 2024 (originally published in Milk Candy Review)
“Conspiracy.” Centaur Lit: online. 2024
“Breakup Story.” HAD: online. 2024
“Cold Fish.” swamp pink: online. 2024
“Kira Kira.” Fictive Dream: online. 2024
“How Regular People Talk.” Ghost Parachute: online. 2024
“An Awkward Shape to Carry.” Cutleaf : online. 2024
“The Maternal Instinct of Snakes.” The Cincinnati Review: online. 2024
“Little Pig, Little Pig.” Colorado Review: print. 2024
“Some of the Things That Attract Bears.” Laurel Review: print. 2023
“Low Class.” Laurel Review: print. 2023
“Message in a Bottle.” Wigleaf: online. 2023
“Extinction.” Milk Candy Review: online. 2023
“Pinch Hitter.” The Sunlight Press: online. 2023 (winner of The Sunlight Press 2023 flash fiction contest) (longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50)
“Animals in Confinement.” The Forge: online. 2023
“Stupid Motorist Law.” Journal of Compressed Creative Arts: online. 2023 (longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50)
“Counting.” MoonPark Review: online. 2023 (selected for Best Microfiction 2024) (longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50)
“Corkscrew.” Ghost Parachute: online. 2023
“Game Over.” Bending Genres: online. 2023
“Domestic Fiction.” Pithead Chapel: online. 2023
“Useful Skills.” Flash Frog: online. 2023 (longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50)
“My Sister’s Monkey.” Laurel Review: print. 2022 (selected for Best Small Fictions 2023 and selected as one of ten spotlighted stories)
“Survival Training.” Five South: online. 2022
“Crossing Guard.” The Journal: online. 2022
“Pleasant Female.” Fictive Dream: online. 2022
“Forty-one Jesuses.” Hunger Mountain: online. 2022
“The Classification of Living Things.” Outlook Springs: print. 2022
“Squash.” The Forge: online. 2022 (selected for Best Microfiction 2023)
“Sugar.” Ruby: online. 2022
“Marching Season.” American Literary Review: online. 2022
“What I Owned.” Monkeybicycle: online. 2022 (selected for Best Microfiction 2023)
“The Contents of My Exes’ Refrigerators.” Cleaver Magazine: online. 2022
“Fake Fruit.” Cease, Cows: online. 2022 (longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50)
“Bristles.” Nurture: online. 2022
“Creation Myth.” On the Seawall: online. 2022
“The Real Marcia.” Ghost Parachute: online. 2022
“Keeper Four.” Emrys Journal: print. 2021 (winner of the 2020 Sue Lile Inman Fiction Prize)
“Hand-Me-Downs.” Zizzle: print. 2021 (winner of the 2021 Zizzle Literary Flash Fiction contest)
“What People Do.” The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts: online. 2021
“Play It Safe.” Cream City Review: print. 2021
“Paula Watt.” Witness: print. 2021 (received special mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize anthology)
“Costs.” Juked: online. 2021 (selected for the Wigleaf Top 50)
“Duck, Duck, Owl.” X-R-A-Y: online. 2021
“Sowing.” Fractured Lit: online. 2021
“The Special.” Tiny Molecules: online. 2020
“Mirrors.” New World Writing: online. 2020 (selected for Best Microfiction 2021)
“Confession.” Pithead Chapel: online. 2020
“Windows.” Monkeybicycle: online. 2020
“The Natural Order of Things.” Another Chicago Magazine: online. 2020
“Cake or Pie.” Wigleaf: online. 2020 (selected for Best Small Fictions 2021)
“A Gray Inchworm on a Gray Sidewalk.” 100 Word Story: online. 2020
“Experiments with Living Subjects.” Nashville Review: online. 2020
“Doing Something is Better Than Doing Nothing.” BULL: online. 2020
“Eden.” MoonPark Review: online. 2020
“Swarming.” The Forge: online. 2020
“Dendrochronology.” FlashFlood: online (originally published in Scoundrel Time) 2020
“How I Learned About Evolution.” Okay Donkey: online. 2020
“A Girl Scout is Useful, Thrifty, Cheerful, Courteous, Clean in Thought, and Above All, Loyal.” DIAGRAM: online. 2020
“Breath Versus Sound.” On the Seawall: online. 2020
“Fishbowl.” Moon City Review: print. 2020
“Impulses.” Tiny Molecules: online. 2020
“Hostages.” Ghost Parachute: online. 2020 (longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50)
“Snapshot.” Atlas and Alice: online. 2020
“Story #2: Sketch.” Queen Mob’s Teahouse: online. 2020
“Debbie’s Parents.” Cease, Cows: online. 2019
“Snow White with Goats.” Wigleaf: online. 2019
“Barrel Cactus,” “Common Denominator,” and “Dead Plant.” FRiGG: online. 2019
“Resurrection.” The Southeast Review: online. 2019
“Gestation.” The Pinch Journal: print. 2019
“Palate Cleanser.” Bending Genres: online. 2019 (selected for Best Microfiction 2020)
“Knife Rules.” Coffin Bell Journal: online. 2019
“Life Cycle of an Ungrateful Daughter.” New South: print. 2019
“Three-Week Checkup.” Alaska Quarterly Review: print. 2019
“Dollhouse Furniture.” The Nottingham Review: online. 2019
“Dendrochronology.” Scoundrel Time: online. 2019
“Fertilizer.” Pithead Chapel: online. 2019 (selected for Best Microfiction 2020 and longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50)
“Dwellings.” New Flash Fiction Review: online. 2019
“Bargain.” Litro: online. 2019
“Migration.” Fictive Dream: online. 2019
“Deposition.” Milk Candy Review: online. 2019
“Manhandle.” Jellyfish Review: online. 2019 (longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50)
“The Sand and the Sea.” Greek translation, Planodian: online (originally published in SmokeLong Quarterly) 2019
“How We Got Here.” BULL: online. 2019
“Dee Bukowski.” Epiphany: online. 2019
“No Knees.” Journal of Compressed Creative Arts: online. 2019
“The Pregnancy Game.” Fanzine: online. 2019 (reprinted in Flash Fiction America, 2023)
“Sockets.” Gone Lawn: online. 2019
“Muscle Memory.” Hobart: online. 2019 (Finalist and Highly Commended Story, The Forge 2018 Flash Fiction Contest)
“Things My Son Knows.” jmww: online. 2019
“The Tasters.” Queen Mob’s Tea House: online. 2019
“Frogs in Captivity.” Spelk: online. 2019
“Binary Code.” Monkeybicycle: online. 2019
“An Arm or a Palm Frond or a Boot.” Pidgeonholes: online. 2018 (longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50)
“Carrot.” formercactus: online. 2018
“Tea Kettles.” Okay Donkey: online. 2018
“A Mouth is a House for Teeth.” Colorado Review: print. 2018 (Finalist for the 2018 Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction)
“Night Bloom.” The Forge: online. 2018 (also available on Read with Audrey)
“Cubist Mother.” 100 Word Story: online. 2018
“The Point.” Longleaf Review: online. 2018
“The Sand and the Sea.” SmokeLong Quarterly: online. 2018
“My Husband Is Always Losing Things.” Cleaver Magazine: online. 2018
“I’m Just Talking About Water.” Occulum: online. 2018
“The Funny Thing.” Nashville Review: online. 2018
“High Ground.” New World Writing: online. 2018
“The Easy Way.” New Flash Fiction Review: online. 2018
“Safeway.” Tahoma Literary Review: print. 2018
“One or Two?” Passages North: print and online. 2018 (selected for the Wigleaf Top 50)
“Before After.” Five:2:One #thesideshow: online. 2018
“Return.” New South: online. 2018
“Before and After.” Fanzine: online. 2018
“If My Mother Was the Final Girl.” Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading: online. (originally published in Gulf Coast) 2017
“Men Decide They Want Something.” Hobart: online. 2017
“Why Science Lessons That Involve Potatoes Give Me Grief.” Threadcount: online. 2017 (Finalist in 2018 Best of the Net Anthology)
“Predators.” Synaesthesia Magazine – We Are Women Issue: print. 2017
“A Treatise on the Broken Heart Idiom.” Spelk: online. 2017
“Business Enough.” Knee-Jerk: online. 2017
“Kong’s Dream.” TriQuarterly: online. 2017
“The Difference Between Me and Everyone Else.” The Forge: online. 2017
“Fish Story.” New World Writing: online. 2017
“Killer Tomatoes.” Corium Magazine: online. 2017
“Parts We Can Live Without.” Arroyo Literary Review: print. 2017
“Glow.” Arroyo Literary Review: print. 2017
“When the Cottonmouths Come to Feed.” Cream City Review: print.
“An Impromptu Lesson on Black Holes.” The Indianola Review: online.
“Accomplice or Hostage.” Jellyfish Review: online.
“What We Expect to See.” Paper Darts: online.
“The Scream Queen Is Bored.” Angels Flight literary west: online.
“Winkelsucher.” Storm Cellar: print and online.
“Feng Shui.“ Bodega: online.
“Tobe’s Baby.” Jellyfish Review: online.
“Tina’s Herculean Labor.” Broad!: online.
“Hail Satan.” Hermeneutic Chaos: online.
“Galactagogues.” Necessary Fiction: online. (also available on Great Jones Street)
“Phainopepla.” Cease, Cows: online. (longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50)
“Stories People Tell.” Superstition Review: online.
“Pam’s Head.” The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts: online.
“Rattlesnake Roundup.” Moon City Review: print.
“Lessons.” Cleaver Magazine: online.
“Virgins.” Arroyo Literary Review: print.
“Three Ways to Eat Quince.” Word Riot: online.
“If You Were a Serial Killer.” The Adroit Journal: online.
“Prologue.” Gravel: online. (finalist for the 2017 Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction)
“Key Concepts in Ecology.” The Common: print and online. (reprinted in Craft)
“Like Pulling Teeth.” Necessary Fiction: online.
“Unit 7: Exploring Fossils.” Synaesthesia Magazine: online.
“Sex Ed.” Bird’s Thumb: online.
“Atoms.” Hobart: online.
“Of All the Animals in the Aquarium.” SmokeLong Quarterly: online.
“Kinetic Theory.” Fiction Southeast: online.
“Transactions.” Fiction Southeast: online.
“Cinema Verite.” Sixfold: online. (winner of Sixfold 2014 Winter Fiction Contest)
“The Nature of Light.” Blue Lake Review: online.
“Alien Eye.” The Nervous Breakdown: online.
“How Many Ways Can You Die on a Bus?” Slower Traffic Keep Right, a Main Street Rag Publishing short fiction anthology: print. (winner of the Main Street Rag 2005 Fiction Contest; reprinted in Great Jones Street)
“Ventriloquy.” Pebble Lake Review: print.
“Dear Chester.” Faultline: print.
“If My Mother Was the Final Girl.” Gulf Coast: print. (winner of the Gulf Coast 2002 Fiction Contest; reprinted in Great Jones Street)