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













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)


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

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