In the Closet with Tammy
Published in Bright Flash Literary Review.
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Richard’s Christening, June 1957
Not sure if you’ve ever noticed, but strange, dark things lurk just below the surface of ‘our’ world, and who’s to say those things aren’t part of our most beloved rituals? What could possible be dark about a christening, though? Read this micro in The Ekphrastic Review and find out.
Schooling for Coach
Appearing mid-2026 in Bourbon Penn, this is a short, dark, humorous story about the unexpectedly high stakes of a junior varsity basketball team trying to learn a new play from their coach, who is also their biology teacher, who is also a little bit obsessed with the Selfish Herd Theory.
Al’s Final Wish
What happens when Aladdin grows up, settles into his life, and never uses that precious third wish? Maybe this, if he thought it was true love? Or, if your take is self-actualizing freedom after festering decades of Stockholm Syndrome, then maybe also this. Check it out at Flash Phantoms and interpret as you will.
Hellfire
Things go dark in this flash set on a 19th century midwestern farm. But wait, is that a happy ending? Indeed it is.Disappointing. Published by Flash Fiction Magazine, June 2025.
The Village You Did Not Make
220 words inspired by the medieval Italian village of Casperia, where we attended a writing retreat. The week was magical – the village, our hosts, the other writers – everything. If there’s magic in the story, it’s decanted from all the glories that abounded there. Published at The Hoolet’s Nook.
Stone-mothers
I guess this one’s about benign repression, or some similarly horrid garbage-sauce controlling business in that general halo. Basically, there’s this dragon who’s under human control for seriously historical reasons unrelated to her, and now certain humans decide they want to control her offspring. Mildly salient, though I wrote the first draft of this ten […]
Black with Ash, Red with Grinding
Lodged in Molotov Cocktail’s Killer Flash 2024 mega-issue, this one’s about the dark stuff different groups of people do to the other. I was thinking about colonialism, oppression, evangelism, and appropriation, but the great thing about darkness is, that shit’s everywhere. You can’t cover it all in under a thousand words.
Omigaa
Included in Molotov Cocktail’s Killer Flash mega issue, this is a story about being different, figuring out who you are, and the pain we may inadvertently cause others in the process.
Dreams of Me
This bleaklicious flash appeared in Horror Tree‘s weekly online publication, Trembling with Fear. If you like creepy doll ghosts and don’t mind the horror of how they got that way or what they might do, you might enjoy this one.
Bad Meat
The Drabblecast published this weird, gross little story, complete with inspiring sound effects.
A Break from the Sky
This flash won first place in Backchannels Journal‘s 2022 fiction contest. The story mixes an airport with a cabin, adds a splash of nostalgia, and garnishes it with a shitty marriage. Give it a try, maybe it’s your kind of cocktail.
On Snowflake-veined Wings
A shortish, darkish tale about the intermingling horrors of corporate America, allergies, and social media. First published in Bourbon Penn #28 in ’22, and podcast in June ’24 at Podcastle.
Alpaca Lips
This drabble is a little horror show. I wrote it because well, darkness, and also I can’t help myself with Dad joke caliber wordplay. It’s a compulsion, and sometimes if you’re note careful compulsions can be kindapocalyptic. Check it out here.
Dark Morsels
Sample the tasty darkness. A collection of eleven tiny fictions, including two new flashes to deepen that hollow, hopeless feeling we all cherish. Published by Red Bird Chapbooks in July 2023. Contents: Beetle in Her Pocket Flip Side Waiting for the Trustafarian Migration Baksheesh* Alpaca Lips Sparkly Thing The Slow Rise of Foreign Bodies Meat […]
Beetle in her Pocket
“I’m going to be an entomologist,” Isabelle says. Her dress doesn’t have a pocket, or she’d have brought one of her pets. Her hands feel empty.