Fiction

“An Awkward Shape to Carry.” Cutleaf (forthcoming)
“Little Pig, Little Pig.” Colorado Review (forthcoming)
“Some of the Things That Attract Bears.” Laurel Review (forthcoming), 2023
“Low Class.” Laurel Review (forthcoming), 2023
“Message in a Bottle.” Wigleaf, 2023
“Extinction.” Milk Candy Review, 2023
“Pinch Hitter.” The Sunlight Press: online. 2023 (winner of The Sunlight Press 2023 flash fiction contest)
“Animals in Confinement.” The Forge: online. 2023
“Stupid Motorist Law.” Journal of Compressed Creative Arts: online. 2023
“Counting.” MoonPark Review: online. 2023
“Corkscrew.” Ghost Parachute: online. 2023
“Game Over.” Bending Genres: online. 2023
“Domestic Fiction.” Pithead Chapel: online. 2023
“Useful Skills.” Flash Frog: online. 2023
“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)