my work

“What’s He Building in There”

In The Fairy Tale Review | Rainbow Issue 2023

a long story about a suburban boomer mother whose husband turns into a bear; told in the form of emails written to her absent millennial daughter

finalist for a 2023 Shirley Jackson Award for Novelette

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“The Blues”

In Action, Spectacle! | 3:1 2020

a story about two mentally ill young people falling in love in a city infested with an inexplicable growth of glowing blue veins

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“Manifold Northeast Life & Trust”

In The Missouri Review | 42:3 2019

a story about a man who works alone in an office that transforms into a forest haunted by the ghosts of his former co-workers

winner of TMR’s 2019 Peden Prize

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