Schooling for Coach
Forthcoming in Mysteries Trade Magazine, a zine featuring a glorious range of creations including this sudden fiction about a JV basketball team trying to learn a high-stakes new play from their biology teacher slash coach.
Writing
Separate Worlds
Check out PULP Literature‘s Winter 2024 issue, which will include my Editor’s Choice flash about phones and tones and a fun little global meltdown. It’s just one possible answer to the age-old question of who that bell is tolling for. I hope it resonates for you with some truthy darkness.
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 allergies and social media, and how the sudden escalation of one impacts the other. In Bourbon Penn #28.
Fair Aliquant
An executioner serves justice to the traitor who murdered the beloved princess. Published September 30, 2022 at Daily Science Fiction.
Smilers
Listen to “Smilers” at Podcastle now! It was originally published in Bourbon Penn #20 in March 2020. Science Fiction World will also be translating “Smilers” into Chinese in a future issue. “Smilers” also received an Honorable Mention in Ellen Datlow‘s Best Horror of the Year Volume 13. The Smilerverse is spreading!
Sparkly Thing
The restaurant was empty, the lunch rush over,
and I was buffing down tables in hard circles—Ryan
had just moved in with some stupid cow he met at a
club—when a heavyset middle-aged woman
sporting gigantic shades came in.
The Goatherd of Naxos
I’m sitting against the flaking bole of a laurel tree, cooling down after hiking up the mountain, when a little man drops from the canopy above.