S E L E C T E D P U B L I C A T I O N S
The Other Stories
Excerpt from A Girl Goes into the Forest
Woven Tales Press
The Woman in the Winter Storm
the museum of americana
A Man with Horses
The Old Cat on the Countertop
An Animal in the Higher Order
The Rumpus: "What to Read When You Want to be Inspired by What Language Can Do"
An annotated list of 10 books
Long Reads: "The First Book"
"Eleven Women Writers on this Apocryphal Publishing Milestone"
The Gravity of the Thing
In the Beginning
I. Breath came to me as it comes to us all, unsolicited but grasped at. Something in us, animals, wants it, evidently . . .
Connotation Press
Three Hybrids
Laundry
Exposed
Schematics
Books by Women
Writing Needs Community AND Solitude (Essay)
Entropy Magazine
Baby Bird
Mom Egg Review
On Mothering Grown Children
Glory, Cloud, and Egg
Starflower [I Want Her Back] (Nominated for Best Microfictions and Pushcart Prize)
Bending Genres
Rust
A smell rose from the stagnant river, like laundry detergent, sickly sweet cherry jello, rusting pipes . . .
Scoundrel Time
After Math & Other Stories
Geniuses
Pond Water (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Friendliness
After Math
Waxwing, Issue XIV - Spring 2018
A Girl Goes Into the Forest (Nominated for Best Small Fictions and Pushcart Prize)
Smoke, Must, Dust
Crucible of History
Unknown Animals
The Negatives
Love Carnival
b(OINK)
Cavern Obscura
That old expression about the fox in the hen house, she’d woken up thinking those words . . . .
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
Petal, Feather, Particle
Show her a flower, a bird, a shadow . . .
Forklift Ohio
Burning
Abandoning the Birds
*Print
You Are Here: Journal of Creative Geography
A House in the Desert
Vestal Review
Girl on a Hobby Horse
When my romantic relationship of fourteen years broke, I learned many new unnecessary things . . .
Your Impossible Voice
Old Church by the Sea
I hadn’t visited the abandoned church by the sea in many years . . .
Helen, a Literary Magazine
Iguana
Her husband left her sitting at the little table at the edge of the garden under the overcast sky . . .
The Cortland Review
The Map She Is Trying to Follow
She's been making some difficult paintings . . .
the museum of americana
A Depth so Familiar
The day after Christmas. Snowing. The countryside white. All the streets. Dark footprints led to the station . . .
RHINO
I Should Let You Go
*Print
VOLT
Day Lilies
Human Movement
Green Glass Bird
*Print
Soundings Review
Wedding Gift
*Print
Also available from Audible here.
Women's Voices for Change
Our Kisses
100 Word Story
Note to a Ghost
After you died I wandered the nearby field. Twilight. Your cat ran up to me with a bird’s heart in its mouth . . .
Storyscape Journal
Trouble for People (Excerpt from Blow the House Down)
Tendrils and tangles of vines draped down the sides of the grape arbor . . .
Fredericksburg Literary and Arts Review
The Associate
Her husband told her he was going out of the country the second week of the month, just after her birthday . . .
Permafrost
My Father and His Slim Beautiful Brunettes
My own words woke me up the way it sometimes happens . . .
Blotterature
A Worn Sock
A hole had opened in Jess’s sock under the pad of her foot not too far from her pinky toe . . .
Sugar Mule
Your Spree in Paris
Cracks in the sidewalks gathered the city's debris in microcosmic patterns. If one could only become small enough to see . . .
Eleven Eleven
U+2204
Katrina found a brown fedora lying in the aisle of the market, which she’d entered to escape the rain . . .
The Quotable
Day of the Dead
When I was a child, Day of the Dead meant sugar skulls, staying up past midnight, marigolds, burning copal, blazing votives . . .
Tupelo Quarterly
An Uncle
An uncle is someone who when you see the headlines in the newspapers you try to picture in that swampy place . . .
Joyland Magazine
Blow the House Down & other stories
Shadow Puppets
Cherry Pie
Sister Planet
Intercourse
Lovely Panties
He tells her that by the time she is out of high school—an unimaginable future date— they could be living on Earth’s sister planet, Venus . . .
Her Royal Majesty
A Morning on the Beach
The child looked androgynous, not boy or girl definitively. Pale hair, shoulder-length and raggedy; damp . . .
*Print
NewFound Journal
Celestial Bodies
As if in a game, my brother Derrick crawls across the plank he’s stretched from rooftop to rooftop . . .
Emprise Review
Magpies
He had an older sister whose face reminded Lydia of a cartoon magpie from her childhood . . .
Staccato Fiction
Nora and Paul at The Coffeeshop
“The usual?” the barista asked Paul. She tucked her hair behind her ear and smiled . . .
Divine Dirt Quarterly
To Please a Man
How bitterly he tills the field. He’s forgotten his ardent desire for a taste of life outside the usual grandeur of Paradise . . .
Pure Francis
Pie Plate
When she got up to look out the window there was a rim of frost lining the bottom of the pane . . .
The Fabulist
The Girl and the Stone
The stone was green. It may have been moss that made it so. He didn’t know; he picked it up from the side of the road and threw it . . .
The Maid's Dream
Lately she’d been waking with the sense of having an important dream forgotten in the moment of opening her eyes . . .
Jamie's Dragon
Jamie saved up her babysitting money for the tattoo. It hadn’t taken long, her dad liberal with his guilt money . . .
Blotterature
Our Losses
We'd been robbed so many times we didn't bother to lock up anymore . . .
Fragmentation and Other Stories, Burrow Press
Fragmentation
*Print
Fiction365
Game Night
The three of them met in a board games group Josie found advertised online . . .
Annalemma, Issue #8 Creation
Project (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
*Print
The Los Angeles Review, Issue 11
IOUs
*Print
The Other Stories
Excerpt from A Girl Goes into the Forest
Woven Tales Press
The Woman in the Winter Storm
the museum of americana
A Man with Horses
The Old Cat on the Countertop
An Animal in the Higher Order
The Rumpus: "What to Read When You Want to be Inspired by What Language Can Do"
An annotated list of 10 books
Long Reads: "The First Book"
"Eleven Women Writers on this Apocryphal Publishing Milestone"
The Gravity of the Thing
In the Beginning
I. Breath came to me as it comes to us all, unsolicited but grasped at. Something in us, animals, wants it, evidently . . .
Connotation Press
Three Hybrids
Laundry
Exposed
Schematics
Books by Women
Writing Needs Community AND Solitude (Essay)
Entropy Magazine
Baby Bird
Mom Egg Review
On Mothering Grown Children
Glory, Cloud, and Egg
Starflower [I Want Her Back] (Nominated for Best Microfictions and Pushcart Prize)
Bending Genres
Rust
A smell rose from the stagnant river, like laundry detergent, sickly sweet cherry jello, rusting pipes . . .
Scoundrel Time
After Math & Other Stories
Geniuses
Pond Water (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Friendliness
After Math
Waxwing, Issue XIV - Spring 2018
A Girl Goes Into the Forest (Nominated for Best Small Fictions and Pushcart Prize)
Smoke, Must, Dust
Crucible of History
Unknown Animals
The Negatives
Love Carnival
b(OINK)
Cavern Obscura
That old expression about the fox in the hen house, she’d woken up thinking those words . . . .
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
Petal, Feather, Particle
Show her a flower, a bird, a shadow . . .
Forklift Ohio
Burning
Abandoning the Birds
You Are Here: Journal of Creative Geography
A House in the Desert
Vestal Review
Girl on a Hobby Horse
When my romantic relationship of fourteen years broke, I learned many new unnecessary things . . .
Your Impossible Voice
Old Church by the Sea
I hadn’t visited the abandoned church by the sea in many years . . .
Helen, a Literary Magazine
Iguana
Her husband left her sitting at the little table at the edge of the garden under the overcast sky . . .
The Cortland Review
The Map She Is Trying to Follow
She's been making some difficult paintings . . .
the museum of americana
A Depth so Familiar
The day after Christmas. Snowing. The countryside white. All the streets. Dark footprints led to the station . . .
RHINO
I Should Let You Go
VOLT
Day Lilies
Human Movement
Green Glass Bird
Soundings Review
Wedding Gift
Also available from Audible here.
Women's Voices for Change
Our Kisses
100 Word Story
Note to a Ghost
After you died I wandered the nearby field. Twilight. Your cat ran up to me with a bird’s heart in its mouth . . .
Storyscape Journal
Trouble for People (Excerpt from Blow the House Down)
Tendrils and tangles of vines draped down the sides of the grape arbor . . .
Fredericksburg Literary and Arts Review
The Associate
Her husband told her he was going out of the country the second week of the month, just after her birthday . . .
Permafrost
My Father and His Slim Beautiful Brunettes
My own words woke me up the way it sometimes happens . . .
Blotterature
A Worn Sock
A hole had opened in Jess’s sock under the pad of her foot not too far from her pinky toe . . .
Sugar Mule
Your Spree in Paris
Cracks in the sidewalks gathered the city's debris in microcosmic patterns. If one could only become small enough to see . . .
Eleven Eleven
U+2204
Katrina found a brown fedora lying in the aisle of the market, which she’d entered to escape the rain . . .
The Quotable
Day of the Dead
When I was a child, Day of the Dead meant sugar skulls, staying up past midnight, marigolds, burning copal, blazing votives . . .
Tupelo Quarterly
An Uncle
An uncle is someone who when you see the headlines in the newspapers you try to picture in that swampy place . . .
Joyland Magazine
Blow the House Down & other stories
Shadow Puppets
Cherry Pie
Sister Planet
Intercourse
Lovely Panties
He tells her that by the time she is out of high school—an unimaginable future date— they could be living on Earth’s sister planet, Venus . . .
Her Royal Majesty
A Morning on the Beach
The child looked androgynous, not boy or girl definitively. Pale hair, shoulder-length and raggedy; damp . . .
NewFound Journal
Celestial Bodies
As if in a game, my brother Derrick crawls across the plank he’s stretched from rooftop to rooftop . . .
Emprise Review
Magpies
He had an older sister whose face reminded Lydia of a cartoon magpie from her childhood . . .
Staccato Fiction
Nora and Paul at The Coffeeshop
“The usual?” the barista asked Paul. She tucked her hair behind her ear and smiled . . .
Divine Dirt Quarterly
To Please a Man
How bitterly he tills the field. He’s forgotten his ardent desire for a taste of life outside the usual grandeur of Paradise . . .
Pure Francis
Pie Plate
When she got up to look out the window there was a rim of frost lining the bottom of the pane . . .
The Fabulist
The Girl and the Stone
The stone was green. It may have been moss that made it so. He didn’t know; he picked it up from the side of the road and threw it . . .
The Maid's Dream
Lately she’d been waking with the sense of having an important dream forgotten in the moment of opening her eyes . . .
Jamie's Dragon
Jamie saved up her babysitting money for the tattoo. It hadn’t taken long, her dad liberal with his guilt money . . .
Blotterature
Our Losses
We'd been robbed so many times we didn't bother to lock up anymore . . .
Fragmentation and Other Stories, Burrow Press
Fragmentation
Fiction365
Game Night
The three of them met in a board games group Josie found advertised online . . .
Annalemma, Issue #8 Creation
Project (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize)
The Los Angeles Review, Issue 11
IOUs