Short Stories
"When Not Knowing Is ​​​More Important Than Wanting to Know"
Harpur Palate (forthcoming Jan. 2025)​​
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"The Two Kinds of Stories We Told"
The Baltimore Review (forthcoming Winter 2025)
“The Clarity of Metaphor”
Sheila-Na-Gig Anthology (forthcoming)
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"That Time I Was Almost Hypnotized by the School of Bait Fish Under the Dock as I Told You About the Abortion I Got When I Was Forty-Nine"
Emerge Literary Journal (forthcoming Issue 34, Spring)
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"Something From Montreal" (reprint)
Literally Stories (forthcoming March 19, 2025)
“Resign Your Liberty” (“Duga”)
Footnote, #10 (forthcoming)
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“A Wrong Turn on Versailles”
​Iron Horse Literary Review (forthcoming)
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"Death Notices by Text Thread"
Leon Literary Review (forthcoming March, 2025)
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"The Bodega Was the Only Thing Left Standing"
Door Is a Jar (forthcoming March 3, 2025)
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"An Intrusion of Cockroaches at the Philadelphia Museum"
Moon City Review (forthcoming Spring 2025) ​
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"All the Things My Dead Husband Did"
BULL (forthcoming Spring 2025)
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2025
The Molotov Cocktail (forthcoming)
2ND PRIZE IN THE FLASH MONSTER CONTEST
Empyrean Literary Magazine (forthcoming Issue 12: Vol 3.4)
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"When the Dalai Lama Forgives Your Human Failures as a Best Friend"
10 By 10 Flash Fiction (Issue 23)
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"A Good Neighbor Is Not A Choice"
Pictura Journal (Issue 2, Dec. 1, 2024)​​
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"The Better Business Bureau Gets a Complaint from the Baker"
Silly Goose Press (Nov. 21, 2024)
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“Whereupon Elena Unexpectedly Runs Into Her
Father's Liver at the Grocery Store"
JMWW (Nov. 20, 2024)
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Flash Frog (Nov. 18, 2024)​
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BoomerLit (Vol. VIII, No. 2; Oct. 2024)
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“They Hide in the Hills”
No Sleep Podcast (Season 21, Ep. 24)
(Speculation Publications)​
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Fictive Dream (Oct. 18, 2024)
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North American Review (Oct. 10, 2024)
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Lobster Salad and Champagne (Fall 2024)
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"The Velocity of Remedial Math"
The Disappointed Housewife (Aug. 28, 2024)
""Mara Runs"
Black Sheep: Unique Tales of Terror and Wonder
(Issue 15, Aug. 27, 2024)
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JAKE (Aug. 11, 2024)
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"The Impossibility of Katrina"
Roi Faineant (August 4, 2024)​
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"Since You Must Have an Explanation"
Same Faces Collective (Issue 15, July 30, 2024)
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Roi Faineant (July 21, 2024)
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"Waiting for Abalone Over a Discussion of Favorite Books"
Bethlehem Writers Roundtable (July 1, 2024)
"A Memo from Your Overworked P.R. Agent on How to Be Famous"
Defenestration (May 22, 2024)
New Flash Fiction Review (May 15, 2024)
Philadelphia Stories (Winter/Spring 2024)
BEST OF THE NET NOMINEE
Atticus Review (April 15, 2024)
MacQueen’s Quinterly (Jan.1, 2024)
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2024
2023
"The Difference Between There Is and There Are"
Sequestrum (Dec. 1, 2023)
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​Streetlight Magazine (Dec. 8, 2023, as EK Riley)
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Frontier Tales (Apr. 2023, as EK Riley)
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"The Paramedic"
​Creepy Podcast (Bonus Content April 3, 2023)
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​Halloween Party 2023 (Gravelight Press)
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Sequestrum (Mar. 1, 2023)
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Dark Recesses Press Webzine (Feb. 5, 2023)
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“When the Wind Blows” (reprint)
Fiction on the Web (Jan. 30, 2023)
BEST OF THE NET NOMINEE
Surely Magazine (Issue 24, Dec. 2022)
​"Incipient"
Rockvale Review (Nov. 2022)
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Ink Stain Anthology, Vol. 14 (Oct. 2022)
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Grim & Gilded (Issue 5)
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Barely South Review (Vol.13.2, Spring 2022)
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Pithead Chapel (Vol.11.2, Feb. 2022)
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2022
2021
"Crow"
The MacGuffin (Fall 2017)
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"Baja"
Ascent (Spring 2017)
PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEE
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"On Rattlesnake Preserve"
The Quill (Mar. 10, 2017)
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"Unbreaking"
The Quill (Feb. 3, 2017"
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2017
2016
""Last Meal"
Stoneboat (Fall 2016)
PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEE
"When the Wind Blows"
Referential Magazine (Fall 2014)
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Best Short Stories from the Saturday Evening
Post Great American Fiction Contest, 2014.
HONORABLE MENTION
2014
"Second Child"
Xavier Review (Summer 2015)
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"Walls"
Sanitarium (Aug. 31, 2015)
SHORT-LISTED FOR AEON AWARD
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Litro Magazine (Apr. 10, 2015)
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2015
2013
"Token"
Revolver (Oct. 2013)
"Being There the Night Dr. John Died"
Bellow Literary Journal (Issue 2.1)
2007
1998
"Whatever You Say"
The Veranda (1998)
"Urban Myths"
Tulane Review (Spring 1997)
1997
1996
"Something from Montreal"
Tulane Review (Fall 1996)
"From Dallas to Venice"
Above Ground: An Anthology of Southern Writers
(Xavier Press, 1993)
1993
1992
"Fitting In"
Xavier Review (Spring 1992)
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"Venetian Dolphins"
Ellipsis (Spring 1992)