Stories

My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the following places:

2020

• Keep Shame in a Box and Bury It Under the Others in matchbook
• Rescue All the Little Things in Foglifter (print)
• The Color It Leaves Behind in CRAFT

2019

• That Girl in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine’s horror issue
• The Things We Do for a Little Self-Preservation in Monkeybicycle
• Pearls in The Forge Literary Magazine and an interview on writing trauma
• Take My Hand for the Wild Hunt in Black Warrior Review (CNF)
• Hurled at the Night in Prime Number Magazine Flash Fiction Contest winner
• Pieces of Night in Gone Lawn
• If You Look Long Enough You’ll See It All in Hobart
• All the Holes We Mean to Fill in Wigleaf (postcard)
  
• Weather Patterns in Portland Review AWP flash contest winner
• Sometimes You’re the Windshield in JMWW
• Bone China in Jellyfish Review (interview with guest editor Monet Thomas)
  
• Before My Job Interview, Grandma Says to Treat the Glass Ceiling like It’s Nothing but a Sugar Glaze in Pithead Chapel
• The Honey Witch in Sharp and Sugar Tooth: Women Up to No Good, Upper Rubber Boot (print & ebook anthology)
• Green is for Wishes and Apples in Luna Station Quarterly
• Thunder in a Two-Eyed Storm in The /tƐmz/ Review

2018

• Star of Wonder in Okay Donkey (Christmas-themed)
• Snow: winner of the Ryan R. Gibbs flash fiction contest at New Delta Review judged by Colin Winnette (selected for Wigleaf’s Longlist)
• Of Walruses and Queens in formercactus
• Black Feathers in Synaesthesia Magazine‘s short-shorts issue
• The Number of Spiders You Eat in Your Sleep Is the Number of Times You Call Home in Moonchild Magazine (nominated for Best of the Net)
  
• Scavenger Hunt in The Arcanist
• On the Backs of Cats in FLAPPERHOUSE
  
• Mushrooms Are Like Secrets in Atticus Review
• Evolution in Third Point Press (also a finalist in the Gigantic Sequins 7th Annual Flash Fiction Contest)
• She Paints It Pyrotechnic Yellow These Days in CHEAP POP (nominated for Best Microfictions as well as Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy) (selected for Wigleaf’s Longlist)
  
• Negative Space in Pidgeonholes (selected for Wigleaf’s Top 50)
  
• The Color of the Sea at Noon, a finalist for SmokeLong Quarterly’s Award for Flash Fiction
• Ribs And Other Things We Cling To in Passages North
• Inviting in the Universe in Longleaf Review
• Shine Like the Sea’s Deepest Secrets in Podcastle (audio reprint)
• Tigers in Lost Balloon (nominated for Best Microfictions, Best of the Net, AND Best Small Fictions!)
• No One Worships What They Find Under Their Fingernails in Booth (online and print issue 13, nominated for Best Small Fictions)
  
• Flare in Syntax & Salt (reprint)
  
• It Will Show You the Universe (reprint) in Hypertrophic Press

2017

• Milk Teeth and Heartwood in Syntax & Salt
• Rock, Paper, Moon in Cotton Xenomorph
• I Always Have to Dig My Way Out of Every Bad Relationship in Occulum
• Sharp Heart in Wyvern Lit (2nd place in Flash Fiction contest)
  
• Dirty Red Questions in Jellyfish Review (creative non-fiction)
• Boom in The Cincinnati Review
• Shine Like the Sea’s Deepest Secrets in Pirates & Ghosts: Short Stories (a Gothic Fantasy print anthology by Flame Tree)
• Flare in Ellipsis Zine (nominated for the Pushcart Prize!) removed at my request
  
• Twelve Things Only the Mosquitoes Know in Cease, Cows (nominated for Best of the Net)
  
• A Feminist in the Kingdom of Trolls (nonfiction) in Tiny Donkey (part of Fairy Tale Review)
  
• Recluse in (b)OINK
• It’s Too Hot for Flannel in The Baltimore Review
• Rope Burn in Split Lip
• Crocodile Wife in Jellyfish Review (nominated for Best Small Fictions and selected for Wigleaf’s Top 50)
  
• It Will Show You the Universe in Crack the Spine
• The Timekeeper’s Vow in Psychopomp Magazine
• It Would Not Have Our Bones in The Citron Review (nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize!)
  
• Carnivore Morning Breath in Maudlin House

2016

• Northward in Three Drops from a Cauldron (print)
  
• Mind the Pixie Dust in CHEAP POP
• Ocean Boy in decomP
• Bright Foot in Menacing Hedge
• You and Then Some in Necessary Fiction
• Retrobirth in Wyvern Lit
• Deep Down Here in Perihelion SF
• Circles of Ice in Rose Red Review
• Dystopiary in Devilfish Review
• Mirror Noise in Apocrypha and Abstractions

2015

• Pavor Nocturnus in Apocrypha and Abstractions
• Antarctica’s Unbearable Necessities in The Subtopian
  
• Nascent Iodine in A cappella Zoo’s Queer & Familiar: the Trans, Gay, and Lesbian Collection
  
• Loveteeth in Jersey Devil Press
• New Life on ‘Trashlantis’ in The Subtopian