flash stories

where to buy my chapbooks:

2025 chapbook FIVE STORIES, (Sand & Gravel Press)

2026 chapbook SUCH LATE NIGHT RADIO (Bottlecap Press)

read a review of Five Stories, at Claudine, a Literary Magazine

list of online flash story publications

• _{“Cadillacs on the Moon” – SmokeLong Quarterly – 2026 – (w/ reading) 2nd place SLQ Workshop Award}
• _{“The Centaur Dances the Giddy-up Buck” – Pithead Chapel – 2026}
• _{“The Firefighter” – The Bulb Region – 2026}
• _{“The Sugar Cookie Song” – Bottle Rocket – 2026}
• _{“James Comes Walking Out of the Ocean” – Vestal Review – 2026}
• _{“The Bottle Boys of Trash Mountain” – Monkeybicycle – 2026}
• _{“Parhelion, Hurrah!” – Flash Frog – 2026}
• _{“Certain Ancient Sects” – Club Plum – 2026}
• _{“Such Late Night Radio” – Maudlin House – 2026}
• _{“She’s a Miracle, Is What She Is” – Ghost Parachute – 2026}
• _{“The Lonely Custodian” – Sundog Lit – 2026}
• _{“The Belly of the Beast” – Bluestem – 2026}
• _{“Cut” & “My Father’s Mustache” – Flash Boulevard -2026}
• _{“Day Five of the Battle of Publix” – The Bulb Region – 2026}
• _{“I’ll Never Forget That Lightening” – Turn & Work – 2026}
• _{“Disobedient Goats Belong to Belial” – House of Arcanum – 2026}
• _{“Hello, You’ve Reached Bob” – Trash Cat Lit – 2026}
• _{“After the Crash, My Parents Facetime Me to Make Amends” – Dodo Eraser – 2026}
• 2025
• _{“A Dunk in the Bucket“ – Iron Horse Literary Review – 2025}
• _{“10,000 Feet of Snow Last Night in Muncie, IN” –Necessary Fiction – 2025}
• _{“My Cousin the Magnet” – Scaffold – 2025}
• _{“Cadillacs on the Moon“ – Dishsoap Quarterly – 2025}
• _{“The Spartans Sack Troy, Alabama” – Cleaver – 2025}
• _{“All the Streets in My Town are One Way Now” – 100 Word Story – 2025}
• _{“Sail On, Valhallan” – Variant Lit – 2025}
• _{“Exiles in the Forest of Ghostlights” – SoFloPoJo – 2025}
• _{“Amy’s Blue Period” – Roi Faineant – 2025}
• _{“Spiderwebs” – Major 7th – 2025}
• _{“Good Job on the Test, Son” – The /tƐmz/ Review – 2025}
• _{“The Flower Duet” – Haunter – 2025}
• _{“Say: ‘There’s a Dragon’, Camel Boy” – Temple in a City – 2025}
• _{“Maybe Something Nice” – Flash Fiction Magazine – 2025}
• _{“The Saintly Left Arm of Joan of Arc” – Aesterion – 2025}
• “_{Fishing at Olive Garden” – Blood + Honey – 2025}
• _{“Is Your Heart In It?“ – On the Seawall – 2025}
• _{“Show Me Your Bear Face” – Prime Number – 2025}
• _{“There’s Nothing But Hell Below” – HAD – 2025}
• _{“One-Two Combination” – Paper Dragon – 2025}
• _{“The Silk Women…” – Neither Fish Nor Foul – 2025}
• _{“Grandson” – Paragraph Planet – 2025}
• _{“Me and Barnaby, Alone” – New Flash Fiction Review – 2025}
• _{“Luanne, Mother of Big Cats” – Flash Boulevard – 2025}
• _{“My Dads’ Cars” – BULL – 2025}
• _{“Picnic Therapy” – Apple in the Dark – 2025}
• _{“Jackpot” – Bristol Noir – 2025}
• _{“On a High Note” – Sky Island Journal – 2025}
  • 2024
• _{“Welcome to the Solar System, Mrs. Black Hole” – HAD – 2024}
• _{“The Tide House” – Fractured Lit – 2024}
• _{“Two Excellent People Burning” – The Disappointed Housewife – 2024}
• _{“Good Talk” – Tiny Molecules – 2024}
• _{“Crumblings” – Gone Lawn – 2024}
• _{“Gladiator” – MacQueen’s Quinterly -2024 – long-listed Smokelong workshop}
• _{“Grief Sandwiches” – New Flash Fiction Review – 2024}
• _{“Almanac” – Does It Have Pockets -2024 – long-listed Smokelong workshop prize}
• _{“Uncle Splinters” – Roi Faineant – 2024}
• _{“Brancard” – Every Day Fiction -2024}
• _{“Buckets” – The Molotov Cocktail – 2024}
• _{“A Flower, A Pistol, and a Musicbox” – O:JA&L – 2024}
• “_{The Newly Divorced Guy’s Homestyle Fish Stew” – BULL – 2024}
• _{“Superscar” – Flash Fiction Magazine – 2024}
• _{“Soliloquy” – Roi Faineant -2024}
• _{“You Should Join Her in the River” – Bending Genres – 2024}
• _{“You with an A or an E” – Maudlin House – 2024}
• _{“It’s All Broken Up In There” – Litbreak – 2024}
• _{“Dan’s House of the Blues” – Every Day Fiction – 2024}
• _{“Collision” – Gooseberry Pie – 2024}
• _{“The Roc” – Midsummer – 2024}
• _{“3 Stories” – Ginosko – 2024}
• _{“Remember Blue Elephant” – Mount Hope – 2024}
  • 2023
• _{“The Turkeys” – Flash Frog – 2023 – long-listed wigleaf top 50}
• _{“Joseph’s Gray Place” – Stone of Madness – 2023 – long-listed wigleaf top 50}
• _{“What Danza Did to Dad” – BULL – 2023}
• _{“Skoosh” – HAD – 2023}
• _{“Mr. Wilhite” – JMWW – 2023}
• _{“Irish Setters” – Heavy Feather Review – 2023}
• _{“The Lake Beneath” – Roi Faineant -2023}
• _{“The Meg 14: Sinbad’s Return” – Jake – 2023}
• _{“Teamwork” – Rejection Letters – 2023}
• _{“Santa, Undone” – Streetlight Magazine -2023}
• _{“The Rent in the Galaxy” – Gastropoda -2023}
• _{“PETS” – Idle Ink – 2023}
• “_{My Brave Boys” – Pato – 2023}
• _{“The Dollar General Doctor” – Witcraft – 2023}
• _{“Clyde” – Rural Fiction Magazine – 2023}
• _{“Theater Kid” – Sleet Magazine – 2023}
• _{“Magical Thinking” – Roi Faineant – 2022}
• _{“A Paperclip and a Bunsen Burner” – Cosmic Daffodil – 2023}
• _{“The Nap Gun” – Fauxmoir – 2023}
• _{“Phones in His Pockets” – Hive Avenue – 2023}
• _{“Long Distance” – Wrong Turn Lit – 2023}
• _{“Old Man Steve” – A Thin Slice of Anxiety – 2023}
  • 2022
• _{“Chiptune” – Drunk Monkeys – 2022}
• _{“Fashioned at Last into an Arrowy Shape” – Literally Stories – 2022}
• _{“Hawkeyed Henry” – Bombfire Lit – 2022}
• _{“Celebrity Zombie Battles” – A Thin Slice of Anxiety – 2022}
• _{“Snowballs in Hell, 1944” – Bridge Eight – 2022}

in print:

_{“What Do You Got to Say About Love” – Puerto del Sol issue 60.1}

_{“The Aquariums of the Smokies” – Cherry Tree issue 12}

_{“Remember Blue Elephant” – Mount Hope no.22}

_{“Things You’re Not Supposed to Brag About” – Door = Jar issue 29}

_{“Suitcase” – Moon City Review 2027 [forthcoming]}

SCIENCE FICTION / HORROR

• _{“What Would You Tell Your Future Self?” – AntipodeanSF – 2024}
• _{“Too Many Stars” – Sophon Lit – 2024}
• _{“The Dart Frog” – Grim & Gilded – 2024}
• _{“Warp” – Sophon Lit – 2023}
• _{Holes Inc. – Ripples in Space – 2021}