flash fiction


When I write, I try to keep Bolano’s warning in my head, “If you’re going to say what you want to say, then you’re going to hear what you don’t want to hear.” Sometimes I heed it, sometimes not.



the western stories



The Young Women of Belle Fourche

-published in Typishly in September 2019


Natural Optimism

-published in Mojave Heart in October 2019 


Prairie

-published in Five on the Fifth in October of 2019


Nudes

-published in Literally Stories in November of 2019


Badlands

-published in Tiny Molecules in December 2019


The Magic Kingdom

-published in The Museum of Americana in February of 2020


Mantis

-published in Microfiction Monday, Edition 124 in March of 2022                                                   


John Barleycorn

-published in One Sentence Poems / Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press  on July 11, 2022     


The Old West

-published in One Sentence Poems / Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press on July 13, 2022


Lures, Charms, Ornaments 

-published in Bar Bar Literary on  May 10,2023


Wasi'chu

-published in Epiphany Literary Journal

December 15, 2023


Three Hundred and One

- published in Fictive Dream

April 6,2025












chicago/midwest stories



Visibility

-published in Fiction Kitchen Berlin in April 2020


Ursicide

-published in Quarter After Eight vol.25, September 2019 (print only)


Brief Picnic with Flannery O’Connor

-published in Hotel Amerika in August 2021 (print only)


You Ain't No Fuckin' Warren

-published in Your Impossible Voice in January 2024


All The Time

Published in Pure Slush in February 2024 (print only)


Medicine and Masochism

-published in The Adroit Journal, Issue 50, in August of 2024

















peoria stories



The Utopia We Deserve 

-published in Pure Slush in 2020 (print only)


Winged Collaborators

- published in Right Hand Pointing/ Ambidextrous Press, Issue 147, in April, 2022


Koan Machine

-published in Right Hand Pointing / Ambidextrous Press, Issue 147, in April, 2022


A Change of Fortune

-published in the Vestal Review, Issue 60, in June 2022


Exodus

-published in Storm Cellar in 2022 (print only)


Poultry Mystery

-published in New World Writing on July 13, 2022                                 


Cold War

-published in New World Writing on July 13, 2022


Gifts

-published in New World Writing on July 13, 2022


Colleagues in Verse

-published in Flash Boulevard on November 26, 2022                                                                                


Labor Strike

- published in Flash Boulevard on November 26, 2022                                                                               


Narc

-published in Flash Boulevard on November 26, 2022



Boilermaker 

published in the New Flash Fiction Review,    Vol X  #2      2/2023                                                  


Abyss

-published in BODY on April 21, 2023



Breaking Faith

- published in Bar Bar Literary on May 17, 2023



Tough Enough

published in Litro Flash Friday in May 26, 2023


Acid/Base 

published in Your Impossible Voice in July 2024


All the Mexicos

published in Fictive Dream on August 18, 2024


Municipal Diagnosis

published in The Molotov Cocktail on October 2, 2024


The Vapors

published in Flash Frontier on October 31, 2024

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