Creative Work
I flash fiction, novels, and non-fiction essays.
This is me writing at The Note Cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam.
You can read my most recent flash fiction piece “Love Spell” in New Flash Fiction Review.
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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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Love Spell
Published in New Flash Fiction 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
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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
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Harry Holden and Everything After
Published in Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine (print)
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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)
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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)
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Things I Never Thought I'd Say
Published in Fringe
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Floor Work
Published in Pindeldyboz