Publications
Slivers
Hypertext Review | 20 Nov. 2024
“When we think of our grandfather, what comes to mind are splinters of wood. Slivers, we used to call them.”
The Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Hypertext Review is available for purchase here
Beer Glass
The Brooklyn Review | 23 Jan. 2023
“Cynthia was waiting for him at the baggage claim, carousel five, which as always made Jared think of painted horses. Walking toward her, he felt like he was riding one. There was a candy-striped pole running down through his middle, through his stomach, rising with excitement then falling with dread.”
Freedom Trail
Cleaver Magazine | 27 Dec. 2023
“In front of the visitor center, our tour guide adjusts his breeches. They’re slightly too tight to be family-friendly, but I’m relieved to have something to look at besides old buildings for the next hour. I watch him hitch them up a final time, the hem of his blue frock coat barely concealing the bulge.”
New Age
Sequestrum | 01 Sept. 2023
“My mother wants to go to Sedona to meet the leader of the cult she’s in, so I drive her. I offer to drive for two reasons. Reason one: because if I don’t go with her now, I’ll have to hear all about it later. Reason two: if I’m not behind the wheel, she’ll get to pick what we listen to. One of the cult leader’s podcasts, or worse, Tom Jones.”
Portrait of My Mother in a Pandemic
Fiction International | 18 Sept. 2021
“When she calls, she’ll want to know about the irises. The ones you told her you saw blooming once, in a dented box under someone’s window.”
Issue 54 of Fiction International is available for purchase here
Dutch Masters
The Ekphrastic Review | 31 Mar. 2020
“On a bed an island over broken glass we make / love. Outside / the air hoarse with the drone of power tools / saws or drills or nail guns / surging with pressure, surging / with the two of us / over whitecaps of skin / through whirlpools of hair / the kind that curls up next to night.”