Short Stories

Just released...

• ​"What are Friends For?" - Off Topic Publishing, April 28, 2025 - Winner of the April 2025 fiction contest.

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• ​​"Asylum" - Wyldblood Magazine (Issue 7) /// Vocal
• "Breakthrough" - Vocal
• "Carried Too Far" - SpeckLit
• ​"Day Trip" - Space Squid
• "Embers of Rwanda" - Illustrated Worlds
• ​"The Fall Out" - 101 Words
• "The First Snowfall" - America's Emerging Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers anthology, Z Publishing House
• ​"A Helping Hand" - Bloodbond
• "Herstory" - Imagining Monsters: A Collection of Short Stories Inspired by Frankenstein anthology /// Vocal
  
• "Humanity's Monsters" - Worlds: Dark Drabbles # 1 Anthology /// Vocal
• "King of Beasts" - Perpetual Motion Machine newsletter /// Vocal
• ​"Lucky Thirteen" - Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine /// Vocal
  • Book Review of Issue 27 at SFRevu
• "Monstrous Humanity" - Worlds: Dark Drabbles # 1 Anthology /// Vocal
• ​"The Other Woman" - Bards and Sages Quarterly
• ​"Penalty" - 50-Word Stories
• "Pillar of Salt" - Apocalypse Chronicles anthology, Almond Press - Shortlisted in the Apocalypse Chronicles Writing Contest
• "The Prototype" - Exoplanet Magazine
• ​"Role Playing" - Land Beyond the World Magazine /// Vocal
• "Skyjacked" - SpeckLit
• "Subhero" - Everyday Fiction /// Vocal
• "The Time Before" - Vocal
  
• ​​"Under the Surface" - Alien Dimensions

Just released...

• "Out in the Open" - Off Topic Publishing, August 14, 2025. Honorable mention in the July fiction contest.

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• ​​"The 10 Aspirations" - Tiferet Journal
• "An Absence of Stars" - Corvus Review /// Vocal
• "Basic Training" - Alternative War anthology /// Vocal​
• ​"Ceasefire" - The Ekphrastic Review /// Vocal
• "Christine" - Red Wheelbarrow, vol 2
• ​"Definitions" - Bop Dead City
  • ​Winner of Issue 11's 3rd annual flash fiction contest
• ​"Equations" - Connecticut's Emerging Writers: An Anthology, Z Publishing House /// Vocal
• "Expectations" - 101 Words /// Vocal /// ScribesMICRO
• "Forgotten" - America's Emerging Literary Fiction Writers anthology, Z Publishing House
• "Going Along" - Branching Out: International Tales of Brilliant Flash Fiction
• "Holiday" - Red Wheelbarrow, vol 2
• ​​"In Mourning" - Double Take /// Enchantress of Books and other stories /// Vocal
• ​"Liquid" - Quail Bell Magazine /// Enchantress of Books and other stories
• "Matsu koto no chinmoku" - Vocal
• "The Maybe Baby" - Flash Fiction Chronicles
  • Patricia McFarland Memorial Award winner
• "On the Fly" - Flash Fiction Online
• "Reciprocal" - Microfiction Monday /// ScribesMICRO
• "The Separation" - Five on the Fifth /// Vocal
• ​​"Split Mind" - Gone Lawn /// Vocal
• ​​"The Story of Essa" - FLAPPERHOUSE
• ​​"Taiki-chu no chinmoku: The Silence of Waiting" - Litro
  •  Editor's Pick.
• ​​"Transmutation" - FLAPPERHOUSE
• "Trying to Rebuild" - Vocal
• "Underground Topography" - Hypertext Magazine
• "Unrequited" - blink-ink
• ​​"When Angels Fly" - City. River. Tree.

Forthcoming...

• ​"Missed Connections" - Dalliances: Second Chances anthology, forthcoming summer 2026

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• "After Life" - On Spec, vol 29, no 3-4
  • Review at Tangent Online
• "Basic Training" - Alternative War anthology /// Vocal
• ​"Missed Connections" - Fiction on the Web
• "On Algid Shores" - America's Emerging Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers anthology, Z Publishing House /// Vocal
• "Unrequited" - blink-ink

• "Carried Too Far" - Martian Magazine (Issue 2) /// Vocal /// ScribesMICRO
• "Case Closed" - The Fable Online
• "Disjointed" - When to Now: A Time Travel Anthology /// Vocal
• ​​"God's Pig" - The Airgonaut
• "Impedicat" - Vocal
• "In Due Rescue" - Enchantress of Books and other stories /// Vocal
• "Nothing for Sale" - Saturday Night Reader /// Vocal
• ​"On the Fly" - Flash Fiction Online
• "Penalty" - 50-Word Stories
• "Pen Pals" - Vocal
• ​"Unexpected" - 50 Give or Take /// The 50-Word Stories of 2022: Microfiction for Lovers of Quick Reads (50 Give or Take) /// Vocal​
• "What Johnny Wants for Christmas" - 200 CCs magazine - Runner up in the Christmas contest /// 200 CCs: Year One Anthology

Forthcoming...

• "The Princess Prevarication" - Ghosts on Drugs anthology, forthcoming

Just released...

• "A Dream Deferred" - Ghost to Ghost to Ghost anthology, October 21, 2025
• ​"Divided" - Discover Nikkei, June 12, 2025 - Honorable Mention in the 12th Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

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• "After Life" - On Spec, vol 29, no 3-4
  • Review at Tangent Online
• "After War" - Broadswords and Blasters /// Enchantress of Books and other stories
• "Bad Weed" - co-authored with Edward Ahern, Electric Spec, Vol 18, Issue 2
• ​"A Body at Rest" - Enchanted Conversation /// Enchantress of Books and other stories /// Vocal
• "Breakup" - The Drabble /// Vocal
• ​​"Chains of the Past" - Epic Fantasy Short Stories
• ​"A Delightful Delay" - 50 Give or Take /// The 50-Word Stories of 2021: Microfiction for Lovers of Quick Reads (50 Give or Take) /// Vocal
• "The Development" - Dark Cheer: Cryptics Emerging (Volume Silver) /// Honeyguide Literary Magazine /// Vocal
• "Drought" - Vocal
• "Enchantress of Books" - Enchantress of Books and other stories
• "A Farmer's Good Luck" - Tales from the Sunrise Lands anthology, Guardbridge Books /// Enchantress of Books and other stories
• ​"Faster" - The Fable Online /// Vocal /// ScribesMICRO
• "Finale Fortissimo" - Bewildering Stories /// Vocal
  • Picked for the Editors' Choice Fourth Quarterly Review
• "Food for Thought" - Vocal
• "The Godmother's Bargain" - Once Upon a Scream anthology, HorrorAddicts.net /// Enchantress of Books and other stories /// Vocal
  • Book Review: 'Once Upon a Scream', edited by Dan Shaurette, Cultured Vultures, by Adiba Jaigirdar
• ​"Grandmother Winter" - On the Premises, Second place in contest # 22 /// Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell Eligible Authors anthology /// Enchantress of Books and other stories
• "The Heart of Yuki-onna" - Frozen Fairy Tales anthology, World Weaver Press /// Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell Eligible Authors anthology /// Enchantress of Books and other stories /// Vocal
• "In Due Rescue" - Enchantress of Books and other stories /// Vocal
• ​"Into the Eldritch Woods" - Vocal
• "Kiss of the Sea" - Vocal
• "The Last Battle" - Enchantress of Books and other stories /// Vocal
• "The Last Wish" - Zeroflash /// Vocal
• ​​"Liquid" - Quail Bell Magazine
• ​"The Lost Children" - Abbreviated Epics, Third Flatiron Anthologies /// Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell Eligible Authors anthology /// Enchantress of Books and other stories
• "The Moral of Fairy Tales" - Six Sentences /// Vocal
• "The Next Day" - The Lorelei Signal /// Mystic Signals /// Enchantress of Books and other stories /// Vocal
• "On Algid Shores" - America's Emerging Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers anthology, Z Publishing House
• ​"Penned" - Fundamentally Challenged: Stories of Possible People and Impossible Change, anthology edited by Jeffrey Turner /// Enchantress of Books and other stories
• "Performing Arts" - EGM Shorts /// Enchantress of Books and other stories
• "Pretty" - 101 Fiction /// ScribesMICRO
• "Protecting the Family Honor" - SpeckLit /// Vocal /// ScribesMICRO
• "The Race" - Fantasia Divinity Magazine /// Enchantress of Books and other stories /// ScribesMICRO
• "Red" - Tesseracts Twenty-One: Nevertheless anthology
• ​"Regrets" - 200 CCs /// 200 CCs: Year One Anthology
• "Rescued" - The Drabble /// ScribesMICRO
• "Siren Song" - Enchantress of Books and other stories
• "The Soldier's Choice" - Swords and Sorcery Magazine /// Enchantress of Books and other stories
• "Subhero" - Everyday Fiction /// Vocal
• "Supply and Demand" - Bewildering Stories /// Vocal
  • ​Picked for the Editors' Choice Second Quarterly Review
• "Tough" - blink-ink
  • Lit Mag Review of Blink-Ink - 2017, Issue 30 at New Pages
• "Tourists in Hell" - SpeckLit /// ScribesMICRO
• "Treasured" - Space Squid /// Vocal
• "Under the Midnight Skies" - Vocal
• "Waiting" - Vocal
• "When He Died" - Vocal
• "Working Overtime" - Theresa Barker - Lab Notes

• "Bartered" - Vocal
• "Finale Fortissimo" - Bewildering Stories /// Vocal
  • Picked for the Editors' Choice Fourth Quarterly Review
• ​"The Godmother's Bargain" - Once Upon a Scream anthology, HorrorAddicts.net /// Enchantress of Books and other stories
  • ​Book Review: 'Once Upon a Scream', edited by Dan Shaurette, Cultured Vultures, by Adiba Jaigirdar
• "Looking Ahead" - Vocal
• ​"The Ocean's Misfortune" - The Lost Librarian's Grave
• "Performing Arts" - EGM Shorts /// Enchantress of Books and other stories /// Vocal​
• "Pretty" - 101 Fiction /// ScribesMICRO
• ​​"Revenge" - Halloween Forevermore /// Enchantress of Books and other stories /// Vocal
• ​​"Split Mind" - Gone Lawn /// Vocal

• "Wild" - 50-Word Stories