"Queen, Cur, Changeling." Eclectica vol 29, no 4, October 2025. In the 1700s, Denmark's Queen Caroline Mathilde has a difficult marriage and a legendary political love affair; fifty years later, Hans Christian Andersen has a personal stake in her story.

 

“The Lava, the Monsters, the Mechanics of the End.” Gargoyle Online #10, spring 2025. 

Mostly true stuff about having a TBI that just won't quit.

 

“Queen’s Catte.” Hunger Mountain #31, Winter 2025. Winner of the Howard Frank Mosher Prize

for Short Fiction.

(The link takes you to all fiction offerings; click on “Queen's Catte” to read a bit about Mary, Queen of Scots, her embroideries, and her escape plan.)

 

“Civilization / Flight Path.” Époque Press é-zine. March 2025. 

“Marsoupiel.” Sequestrum, Summer 2024.

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“Persephone, My Dear, Listen to Your Mother Now ...” Enchanted Living #62, Spring 2023. Print and online.

“As Deep as the Sky, as Wide as the Night.” Enchanted Living #58, Spring 2022. Print.

 

“You Love Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis).” Gargoyle. Winter 2020. Print: 127-131.

“We Become Nothing.” The Saturday Evening Post, December 4, 2020. 

“Rob the Bank, Butter the Kitchen.” Pacifica Literary Review 16.3, Fall 2020.

“A Spoon Will Catch the Dark Girls’ Pain.” Gemini Magazine. 2019 Annual Short Fiction Prize winner. Online. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

“The Loneliness of Carson Drew.” Miracle Monacle X (April 2018). Online. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

“Fourteen Shakes the Baby,” reprint. Electric Literature, Recommended Reading, March 8, 2017. Online.

“Fourteen Shakes the Baby.” Cincinnati Review 13.1, June 2016. Print: 183-195. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

“Their Foreign Body.” Blue Mesa Review #24, Winter 2012. Online. As of 2021, archives are being updated and converted.

“Sleeps Well with Others.” Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall 2011. Print: 168-173.

“A Collection of Rarities and Originals.” Quarterly West, Winter/Spring 2011. Print: 10-23.

“Perfect, for You.” Gargoyle 57, summer 2011: 273-283.

“The Bed of Imaginary Loves.” The Journal 32.2. Fiction contest winner. Fall 2008: 91-112.

“Last Meeting of the China Moon Pain Club.” Painted Bride Quarterly 79 (2008). Print: 302-315.

“Underneath It All, There’s Carpeting.” Los Angeles Review 4 (2007). Print: 79-89.

“Like Delicate Orchids, and I Am Very Happy.” Coal City Review 24 (2007). Print: 26-36.

“Tutorials from My Uncle, a Self-Published Author” (fiction). Marlboro Review 19 (2006). Print: 111-122.

“Shooting Snakes.” Prairie Schooner, Winter 2005. Print: 135-152.

“How We Got Silvia.” Night Train III, Spring 2004. Print: 61-75.

“Penitentes.” The Bellevue Literary Review 2.2, Fall 2002. Print: 32-41.