selected fictions

“A Tendency to Form” - minor literature[s]

"Like Them, I Like Them” - Exacting Clam

“Celery in Relation to Not Being Vivian” - Bending Genres anthology

“A Waits for K in 29 Careerist Poses” - Firmament

"Seven Strains and a Tritone" - DIAGRAM

“Someone Failed This Man” - Flypaper Lit Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2021

“SOAs” - Bending Genres

“Minor Writers” - Hypertext

“A Story That Foregrounds Dusk” - Random Sample Review

“White Tennis Shoes" (New Delta Review) Winner of Ryan R. Gibbs Award for Short Fiction

"Thirty Minutes" - FLOCK

"Tuica" - Duende

"Wind Words" - Change Seven

“Our Friend, Mia” - The Gravity of the Thing

"Two Faces" - Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

"I Enjoy Teaching Nineteenth Century Novels" - The Write Launch

"Andreea's Road Trip" - Jam Tarts

"Carpool" (PoemMemoirStory) Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers

"My Name Is Not Rita" (Sandy River Review)

"Tinder" and "Your Superior" (Corium Magazine) Nominated for Best Small Fictions

"The Difference Between a Window and a Mirror" (Wraparound South) Nominated for Best of the Net 2018

additional fictions

"The Hammock Half" (Litbreak)
"7 Stories About Girl Scars" (Tinge) 
“The Fairy Tale My Favorite Editor Rejected” (F[r]iction) Nominated for Best American Fiction 2021
"Dear Committee for the Socialization of Illegal Aliens" (Split Lip Magazine)
“Something I Could Have With Low Probability” (NELLE)
That One Time He Wore the Jersey” (Midway Journal) Finalist for the Midway Flash Fiction Prize; Nominated for 2019 Pushcart Prize
"Facebook Post #917" (Former Cactus)
"Mother-In-Law Collection" (Fiction Southeast) Finalist, Fiction Southeast 2015 Editor's Prize
"Long Flight" and "Warlock vs. Cognitive Therapy" (Juked)
“On A Rooftop in New York” (matchbook lit)
"About the Author" and "Conversation with Spouse Concerning Dolly Parton" (Menacing Hedge)
“Charlie Went to Montana” (Random Sample Review) Nominated for Best of the Net 2019
"All Those Love Notes Swarm Like Insects" (Pif Magazine)
"At Inappropriate Hour", "In the Car I Savor Scars", and "We Are Not What They See We Are" (Posit Journal)
"Catalpa Trees" (Lost: Reflections, Medusa's Laugh Press anthology)
"Fetus with a Special Purpose" (New Orleans Review Online)
"Holding" (Mulberry Fork Review)
"Places We Fracked" (Disclaimer Magazine)
"Pop-Ups" (New Orleans Review Online)
"Woman Rendered Speechless By Sunset", "Something About Sunshine in Scrapyards" and "The Subject Will Rise" (Noble Gas Quarterly)
"A Sport We Use to Pass Time" (Shadowgraph Quarterly)
"Bloody Fingers" (Chicago Literati)
"Cabin Pressure" (Full of Crow)
"God's Little Button" (Coup D'Etat)
"Pilgrimage: United Airways Flight From Denver" and "Pilgrimage: Wolf Bay, Alabama" (Right Hand Pointing)
"Preschool Remembered in Hashtags" (Penny Magazine)
"Rehearsings" (Reservoir)
"Rental Units" (Zodiac Review)
"Things I Didn't Say" and "Over My Shoulder" and "The One Who Changes" (Connotation Press)  
"Toketwat" (Minola Review)
"Hubcap, Frog, and Luna Moth" (Parcel) Honorable Mention, Helen Magazine Short Story Prize, 2015
"Doppelgänger" (*82 Review)
"Global Outreach" (Mulberry Fork Review)
"Me and Birdie" (Broad! Magazine)
"Owls" (Rivet Journal)
"People We Saved" (Gravel)
"Purple Comforter" (Liminoid)
"The Professor's Sabbatical" (Dirty Chai Magazine)
"A Guide for Single Mothers That Never Want to Get Married" (Catapult)
"The Summer of Inevitable Dada" (Collective Exile)
CYOA part 5.11 (Lockjaw)
"The Letter Under the Sierra Club Magnet" (CHEAP POP)
“The Woman With a Box at the Church” (Wigleaf)
“When You Sneak Out With Kim for a Cigarette Between SGA and Lunch” (Midway Journal) Best Small Fictions 2021
"The Idea", "The Fetus Who Yearned to Be a Puppy" and "In Your Truck, A Memory" (New South) 
"Six Things That Suddenly Matter" (Paper Darts, Vol. 7)
"A Useful List for Those Who Wish to Imagine Rural America" | tap magazine | 
"The Girl In A Line", "A Lover of Aspen" and "Trash Thieves" (Sleet Magazine)
"The Story I Will Never Tell You" (Every Day Fiction)
"Two Brunettes" (Ellipsis)
"4 children" (Airgonaut)
"Asylum Junkies" (Dime Show Review)
"Clutchings" (Necessary Fiction)
"Colors You Keep Home" (O: JA&L)
"Hush Hush Hush" (NANO Fiction)
"Inventory for Good Relationships (OCCULUM)
"To the Child on the Sailboat, From the Woman on the Shore (Flash Fiction Magazine)
"2 lovers on a hill in Romania" (Firefly)
"If You Want to Be A Trapeze Artist" (Apocrypha & Abstractions)
"Letter To A Midwestern Artist" (Jellyfish Review)
"Once and the Wench" (Airgonaut)
"I Have Given Myself to Multiple Lobbies" (Former Cactus)
"Camomiles" (Ink In Thirds)
"Anger Hole No One Sees Coming" and "These Are Scenes From A Panel"  (F.A.L.D.)
"Family Is An Email With All Caps" (POTLUCK Magazine)
"P.C.B." (Cease, Cows)
"The Story That Starts Off Y.A." (Zero Flash)
“While Celebrating Our Anniversary At the Greek Restaurant” (Litro Magazine, Flash Friday Feature)