The Work

54 pieces in print and online

Short fiction, flash and poetry, newest first. Titles link to where each piece lives.

[ Fiction — online ]

  1. A Pact (opens in a new tab)Reckon Review, 2026
  2. About Nicky (opens in a new tab)Bull, 2026
  3. Preserves (opens in a new tab)Lunch Ticket, 2025
  4. Rosemount Manor (opens in a new tab)The McNeese Review
  5. Clean Slate (opens in a new tab)Roi Fainéant, 2025
  6. Glass Birds Annex (opens in a new tab)Trampset, 2025
  7. This World of Yours (opens in a new tab)Bull, 2025
  8. Surf City (opens in a new tab)Bridge Eight, 2025
  9. Slow Bones (opens in a new tab)The McNeese Review, 2025
  10. Wicked Americana (opens in a new tab)CRAFT, 2025
  11. They want to know about the dead girl (opens in a new tab)LEON Literary Review
  12. Moon and Shadow (opens in a new tab)Oyster River Pages
  13. Dragon Teeth (opens in a new tab)Bull, 2024
  14. Soul 4 Sale (opens in a new tab)Chapter House, 2024
  15. The Onion (opens in a new tab)Vol. 1 Brooklyn, 2024
  16. POV (opens in a new tab)Vestal Review
  17. Katie Says (opens in a new tab)Bull, 2023 ★ Wigleaf Top 50, 2024
  18. Daps for the Dead (opens in a new tab)The Baltimore Review, 2023
  19. Valencia (opens in a new tab)Witness Magazine, 2023
  20. The Narrow Path of Totality (opens in a new tab)Trampset, 2023
  21. The House Across the Street (opens in a new tab)The Citron Review, 2022 ★ Wigleaf Top 50, 2023 · Best Small Fictions nominee
  22. Ralphie is a Good Boy (opens in a new tab)Bull, 2022
  23. The Cost of Crab (opens in a new tab)Terrain.org, 2022
  24. The Magician (opens in a new tab)Jellyfish Review, 2022
  25. Notes on Hope and Despair (opens in a new tab)Maudlin House, 2022
  26. To Have and To Hold (opens in a new tab)Ruminate · archived
  27. How We Were Fiction (opens in a new tab)Lost Balloon, 2022 ★ Pushcart Prize nominee · 3rd, Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Competition
  28. The Roundabout (opens in a new tab)Hawaii Pacific Review, 2022
  29. Am I My Sister’s Keeper (opens in a new tab)Close to the Bone, 2022
  30. Karaoke Cowboy (opens in a new tab)Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, 2022
  31. What Wasn’t Said (opens in a new tab)Reflex Press · archived
  32. Anywhere But Here (opens in a new tab)Lunch Ticket, 2021
  33. Glass Birds (opens in a new tab)Wigleaf, 2021 ★ Pushcart Prize nominee · Wigleaf Top 50 longlist · Mythic Picnic Prize finalist
  34. My Baby (opens in a new tab)Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, 2021
  35. My Mother Has Many Tricks (opens in a new tab)Heavy Feather Review, 2021
  36. The Thick of It (opens in a new tab)SmokeLong Quarterly
  37. Breath Play (opens in a new tab)Cease, Cows, 2020 · archived ★ Best Small Fictions nominee
  38. This is How I Used to Break (opens in a new tab)The Maine Review, 2020
  39. Daffodils (opens in a new tab)Five on the Fifth
  40. Good at Finding (opens in a new tab)Bull, 2020
  41. Leeches (opens in a new tab)Litro Magazine, 2019

[ Fiction — print ]

  1. CrimeBits (anthology) (opens in a new tab)Black Spring Press
  2. The Balance of Some ThingsEllery Queen Mystery Magazine
  3. Am I My Sister’s KeeperBig Muddy
  4. To Have and To HoldRuminate
  5. Ralphie is a Good BoyBull (print)
  6. Driving JoshEmerson Review
  7. The PeakTorrid
  8. The Water Around UsLalitamba

[ Poetry ]

  1. Farmer’s Market (opens in a new tab)Redivider
  2. How to Carry the Burning (opens in a new tab)Paddler Press, Vol. 11
  3. Shiners (opens in a new tab)Montréal Writes, 2019
  4. Untitled · Pan’s Watch · Grocery Store · How to Preserve a Dead Butterfly (opens in a new tab)Rigorous
  5. In San Fernando Holding Wild PoinsettiasArc Poetry Magazine