Creative Work

I write flash fiction, novels, and non-fiction essays.
This is me writing at The Note Cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam.

  • Puberty

    Published in SmokeLong Quarterly
    Pushcart Prize Nominated

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  • A Pinch of Salt

    Published in The Southeast Review (print)
    2014 Winner of the World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest
    Pushcart Prize Nominated

  • What Home Will Look Like When We Return

    Best New Writing 2017 (print)
    Grover Prize, First Place

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  • Cleveland, 2009

    Published in Jellyfish Review

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  • Daniel

    Published in Storm Cellar

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  • Exposure

    Published in Hobart

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  • Based on a True Story

    Published in New Flash Fiction Review

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  • Aftermath

    Published in Gravel

  • Bloodless

    Published in Green Briar Review

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  • Unfed

    Published in Newfound

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  • Izzy Stole Maria’s Night Guard

    Published in Corium

  • Harry Holden and Everything After

    Published in Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine (print)

  • Capture the Flag

    Published in The Southeast Review (print)
    Finalist: 2013 The World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest

  • To Drown in all This World

    Published in American Literary Review (print)

  • Escape Plan

    Published in The Southeast Review (print)
    Finalist: 2010 The World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest judged by Robert Olen Butler

  • Where We Go When We Disappear

    Published in What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers 3rd Ed. Pamela Painter and Anne Bernays, Perason Longman. (2010). Reprinted 2012.

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  • Something She Did Not Have to Give

    Published in River Styx (print)

  • Things I Never Thought I'd Say

    Published in Fringe

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  • Floor Work

    Published in Pindeldyboz

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