Fiction

• JDP: A Novel, BlazeVOX Books, 2021, forthcoming!
• “Alone,” Schuylkill Valley Journal, July 2021, forthcoming.
• “I Am a Rose Thrust at the Heavens,” New Flash Fiction Review, May 15, 2021.
• “I Am John Hawk,” Essay Daily, (forthcoming).
• “The Fence Is Leaning,” (mac)ro(mic), July 5, 2021.
• “Grief Swaggers Into Your House, Neighbor, Sometimes They Come in Three,” Flash Boulevard, March 20, 2021.
• “The Weight of Grieving,” MoonPark Review, Issue 15, March 20, 2021.
• “Storage, Reality TV, Grief Throws Me the Ball,” Emrys Journal Online, March 17, 2021.
• “Grief Has Hidden My Picture,” The Disappointed Housewife, March 2, 2021.
• “Grief Visits Me Today,” Bending Genres Journal, Issue 19, February 2021.
• “Your Father’s Moustache Comes to Visit,” Corvus Review, Issue 15: Fall/Winter 2020-2021.
• “Gift,” Feed Magazine, Issue 1.35, 2021.
• “Bullet,” Alphanumeric, Nonbinary Review, March 23, 2021.
• “Our House Falls Apart,” Everyone Quarterly, Issue 2: Architecture, January 2021.
• “Tiger, Tiger,” Agony Opera, October 2020.
• “Land of Promise. Land of Opportunity. Land of Heroes. Land of Greatness.,” The Heavy Feather Review, November 9, 2020.
• “Fireflies,” Okay Donkey, October 23, 2020.
• “A Mockingbird Sings at Night,” Sublunary Review, August 12, 2020.
• “John Hawkes,” Club Plum, Vol. 1, Issue 3, July 17, 2020.
• “The Name of the Dog is Death,” Fiction International 53, Fall 2020.
• “Nostalgia for the Interiors of Grocery Stores,” Border Crossing, Vol. 10, Fall 2020. Nominated for a Pushcart.
• “The Dictator,” Wordpeace, Winter/Spring 2020, Issue 5.1.
• “The Trough,” Five on the Fifth, February 2020, vol. 5 Issue 4.
• “The Elephant,” Fiction International, Issue 52: Body, Fall 2019.
• “Florida Man,” Punk Lit Press, Issue Four, July 10, 2019.
• “3X,” Queen’s Mob’s Teahouse, July 10, 2019.
• “The House is on Fire,” South Dakota Review, vol. 54, Nos. 3 and 4, 2019.
• “King of the Hill,” poeticdiversity: the litzine of Los Angeles, April 2019, vol. 16, no. 1. Nominated for Best of the Net 2019.
• “MASH Reenactment Guild,” Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Spring 2019 issue, March 1, 2019, vol. 30, no. 1.
• “Conquer and Divide,” Guttural Magazine, Issue 3, February 2, 2019.
• “Struck Horse,” South Broadway Ghost Society, January 16, 2019.
• “To my Imaginary Child,” Gravel, December 2018 Issue.
• “The Cricket,” diarioPop (Italy), December 18, 2018 Issue.
• “The Cricket,” Tuffi Rivista (Italy), translated by Giulia Zorat, September 13, 2018.
• “The Flies,” New World Writing, August 8, 2018.
• “Lions Den,” Anti-Heroin Chic, August 1, 2018.
• “Green Couch,” Minimal Zine, Issue 01.
• “BANG!” The Hunger, Issue 3, Fall 2018. Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2019 and Best of the Net 2019.
• “Red Wallpaper,” Editors’ Choice, Panoply, June 2-8, 2018. Nominated for 2018 Pushcart Prize.
• “The Cricket,” New Flash Fiction, Issue 13, May 2018.
• “Amerikkka,” Unlikely Stories, 20th Anniversary Issue, July 6, 2018.
• “Red Wallpaper,” Panoply, Issue 9, May 4, 2018.
• “My Mother’s Vibrator Drowns Out the Gay Men’s Choir,” Bad Pony, Issue 3, March 16, 2018.
• “Human Interest,” Ghost Parachute, February 2018 issue.
• “Lot’s Wife,” Meowmeowpowpow Lit, forthcoming.
• “Republican Jesus and Real Jesus Meet at the Endeavor Diner,” Heavy Feather Review, December 13, 2017.
• “Treasure Map,” Riggwelter (UK), Issue #7, March 1, 2018.
• “The Alma,” A-Minor, September 2017 issue.
• “C,” The Occulum, September 2017 issue.
• “Bystander,” Pidgeonholes, Volume 11: Hazards of Mercy, September 21, 2017.
• “Thought Experiments,” Heavy Feather Review, #notmypresident, September 21, 2017.
• “1-800-YOUR JUNK,” Florida English — A Journal of Creative Arts, Issue 1, Fall 2017.
• “Giving Fire,” Entropy Magazine, May 3 2017.
• “Finger of God,” Hypertext Magazine, Spring 2017.
• “Flag Factory,” The New Engagement, Number 4, October 2016.
• “Surrogate,” Route 7 Review, Vol. 4, 2016.
• “Gift,” The Indianola Review, Issue Three, Fall 2016.
• “Mirror Mirror,” Pure Slush, June 25, 2016.
• “What to do with This Body When I am Done,” Sin Fronteras, Issue #20, 2016.
• “Bunny Museum,” Wild Hunt Magazine, April 6, 2016.
• “Parade,” Psychopomp Magazine, Spring Issue, April 4, 2016.
• “Give Me More,” HeartWood Literary Magazine, April 1, 2016.
• “What I’m Drinking,” Your One Phone Call, March 24, 2016.
• “Who Will Mourn for Me,” Pioneertown, March 3, 2016.
• “Lost Bar,” Streetwrite, January 2016.
• “Mexican Divorce,” Coup d’Etat, Winter 2016
• “Cutman,” FreezeRay, Issue 9, January 2016.
• “Aint No Grave Gonna Hold Me Down,” Near To The Knuckle, January 27, 2016.
• “There is a Crow in my Chest,” Emerge Literary Journal, Issue 10, 2015.
• “Message Center,” Nebo: A Literary Journal, Fall 2015, Vol. 34, No. 1.
• “I Miss You When You’re Around,” Jellyfish Review, January 12, 2016.
• “Sunrise,” Five 2 One Magazine, January 5, 2016.
• “Hummingbird on Virgil,” Gris-Gris, January 4, 2016.
• “Amuse-Bouche,” Intrinsick Mag, January 3, 2016..
• “Superhero” and “It Feels Good to Punch Someone,” The Birds We Piled Loosely, January 1, 2016.
• “Couple Trades Baby for Chevrolet,” Newfound Journal, Winter Issue, December 21, 2015.
• “Gentleman’s Farm,” South 85 Journal, December 15, 2015.
• “Brides of March,” The Airgonaut, November 27, 2015.
• “A Few Seconds,” Tell Us a Story, November 18, 2015.
• “Do Not Be Afraid,” Slim Volume:  This Body I Live In anthology (UK), November 17, 2015.
• “Seed, Crop, Harvest,” Spelk Fiction (UK), November 13, 2015.
• “All the Pretty Faces,” Eunoia Review, November 7, 2015.
• “The Dinner,” cahoodaloodaling, “Historical (Re)Tell Issue, October 31, 2015. Nominated for “Best Small Fictions” (Queens Ferry Press).
• “Do Not Be Afraid,” Ink, Sweat and Tears (UK), October 26, 2015.
• “No Longer Young,” Turk’s Head Review, October 15, 2015.
• “Historical Monument 56,” Cease, Cows, October 15, 2015.
• “Feral Boy,” Burningword Literary Journal, October 1, 2015.
• “Selective Service” and “2 am,” A Quiet Courage, September 15, 2015.
• “Mission,” Yellow Chair Review, #4, September 1, 2015.
• “On Mateo Street,” “What Has Gone Missing,” and “Sucker Punch,” Jotters United Magazine (UK), Issue 17, September 2015
• “Layoff” and “You’re Brave,” Chiron Review, Issue #101, Fall 2015.
• “The Amazing Alfredo,” Five Quarterly, Spring 2015.
• “Barney,” The Offbeat, Vol. 15, Spring 2015.
• “Our Lawn Was Dying,” Thrice Fiction, No. 13, April 26, 2015.
• “The Black Bikini,” Change Seven, Spring 2015, Issue 1.1.
• “Your Mom Has Passed,” Pretty Owl Poetry, Issue Six, Summer 2015.
• “Intertwined,” r.kv.r.y. quarterly literary journal, Spring 2015, vol. xii, no. 2.
• “Tonight the Birds Fell Like Leaves,” Poetic Diversity, April 2015.
• “Sad If I Lost It,” Cheap Pop, March 26, 2015.
• “You Go Through the Window Only to Find the Door Unlocked,” Pretty Owl Poetry, Issue Five, Spring 2015.
• “The Nest,” Thumbnail 6: Flash Fiction, January 2015.
• “I Need,” in the anthology TOO MUCH:  AN ANTHOLOGY OF EXCESS, August 1, 2014.
• “We are Alive as Long as the Snow is Deep,” Cleaver Magazine, December 11, 2014.
• “Spite House,” Revolution John, October 29, 2014.
• “A Bird Beats at the Window,” The Homestead Review, Fall 2014, September 1, 2014.
• “Split Pea,” Bare Back Magazine, September 1, 2014.
• “You Don’t Put No Fuckin’ Fear in my Heart,” Blue Lake Review, September 1, 2014.
• “The Heart is Not a Good Compass,” Futures Trading, August 2014.
• “There is a Cut on Your Hand That Won’t Heal,” Electric Cereal, April 16, 2014.
• “The Bear,” MadHat Lit, July 26, 2014.
• “How Much You Going to Drink Tonight?” Strictly Fiction, UK, March 7, 2014
• “80-Proof Love,” Drunk Monkeys, February 14, 2014
• “I Need,” Literary Orphans Review, “Bettie” issue, January 8, 2014
• “Your Body is Strange Below Mine,” The Chaffey Review, Volume 11, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
• “There is Nothing More Honest Than Pain,” The Ofi Press Magazine, Mexico City, Mexico, Issue 33, 2013.
• “The Magic Number,” Roadside Fiction, September 28, 2013, Ireland.
• “Holiday,” TheNewer York, September 20, 2013,
• “Some Nights,” “The Shower is Leaking,” and “Young Bodies Heal Quickly” – Connotation Press, Oct. 15, 2013
• “White Desk” (a photograph) – The Medulla Review, August 2013
• “Job’s Tears” – Red Fez, Issue 54, March 13, 2013
• “Asbury” (a photograph) – Microw 8, “Luminous,” Winter 2013
• “Chain” – Electric Windmill, Issue 1, July 2011
• “Bliss Inc. – BlazeVox Books, 2010.
• “Excerpt (first three chapters) from Bliss Inc. – Word Riot, July 15, 2010
• “The Wedding” – Pear Noir!,” Issue 3, January 2010
• “The Great Lover” –  republished in semiannual magazine, Issue 2, Volume 1, July 2009
• “Coyote” Freight Stories,” Issue 5, June 2009
• “Wooden Horse” – The Externalist, Issue 12, May 2009
• “Burning Universe“– The Dream People, Issue 31, April 2009
• “This is the Last Apple” – “The Best of Boston Literary Magazine Chapbook”, 2009 (print)
• “Gigantic” – Aquila Review, vol. 2, Spring 2009 (print)
• “The Great Lover” – Bartleby Snopes, February 2009
• “STATUE, 305 FT, 1 OWNER” – Eleven Eleven, Issue 6, February 2009
• “I Never Fucked Her” – Pank, Issue 3, January 2009 (print)
• “The Flower Pot” – Juked, Issue 6 (print). Nominated for The Pushcart Prize 2008.
• “Near Dweller“– Pequin, January 13, 2009
• “Tenants” – GHOTI Magazine, Issue 16, October 2008
• “Five Star Literary Stories“ – “Unfinished” review, June 20, 2008
• Menagerie“ (flash fiction collection) – Finalist for the Spring, 2008 Black River Chapbook Competition
• “Crop” – Clapboard House, Issue II, January 2008
• “Do Not Take My Happiness Upon As Yours” – Wandering Army, #132, January 2008
• “The Father Sightings” – Marginalia“, Vol. 3, Issue 2, Fall (December) 2007
• “Family History” – Storyglossia, Issue 25, December 15, 2007
• “Backstory” – Edifice Wrecked, October 15, 2007
• “Wild Dog – JMWW, Summer 2007
• “Unfinished” – Lamination Colony, May 2007. Nominated for “Best of the Web.”
• “The Equilibrist” – “Ward 6 Review“, Vol. 1, Issue 4, December 1, 2006
• “Cosmogony“– Word Riot, July 6, 2006
• “How It Is” – Small Spiral Notebook, Vol. IV, Issue 4, Spring 2006
• “Middle of Winter” – Pindeldyboz, 01.11.06, vol. 21, no. 1, Winter 2006
• “Father’s Day” – The Saint Ann’s Review, Winter 2006
• “Glimmer” – The Konundrum Engine Literary Review, September 23, 2005
• “Things in the Light” – Dicey Brown, Summer 2005
• “I Knew Hamlet” – Mississippi Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, Spring/Summer, May 2001
• “The Club“– The Café Irreal, August 2000
• “Hamlet Cows” – Confluence, Vol. 9, 1998
• “Menagerie” – PRISM International (Canada), Vol. 36, No. 2, Winter 1998
• “Beatrix’s Garden” – Pearl“, Spring/Summer 1998, No. 26
• “Coterie” – Nebo, Fall 1997.
• “Mouse” – Farmer’s Market, Spring/Summer 1997, Vol. 14, No. 1
• “Foil” – New Digressions, Fall 1995, Vol. 3, No. 1
• “Gargoyles”, “Acrobats”, and “Shtick” – Brooklyn Review 12, Summer 1995
• “Bath Beads” – Happy, Winter 1995-1996, No. 3
• “Precipitation” – Happy, Summer 1995, No. 2
• “The Falling Man” – Mangrove, Winter 1995, Vol. 2, No. 1
• “The Bedlamites” – S.L.U.G.fest, Summer 1994
• “Exploding Man” – The Dexter Review, June 1994
• “Revenge and Firestoker” – Artscape Magazine, April 1994
• “Dog” – Artscape Magazine, June 1994