Short Stories

Been a bit behind in listing my recent publications - will be updating this page soon!

• ​"What Are Friends For?" - Off Topic Publishing, April 28, 2025. Winner of the April 2025 fiction contest.
• "The Fall Out" - 101 Words, September 2024.
• "Embers of Rwanda" - Illustrated Worlds, September 10, 2023.
• ​"Asylum" - Wyldblood Magazine (Issue 7) - January 4, 2022.
• ​"Role Playing" - Land Beyond the World Magazine, June 7, 2021.
• "The Prototype" - Exoplanet Magazine, June 20, 2019.
• "Humanity's Monsters" - Worlds: Dark Drabbles # 1 Anthology, June 17, 2019.
• "Monstrous Humanity" - Worlds: Dark Drabbles # 1 Anthology, June 17, 2019.
• ​"Herstory" - Imagining Monsters: A Collection of Short Stories Inspired by Frankenstein anthology, June 13, 2019.
• "The First Snowfall" - America's Emerging Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers anthology, Z Publishing House, May 19, 2019.
• "Day Trip" - Space Squid, January 18, 2019.
• ​​"Under the Surface" - Alien Dimensions, October 2, 2017.
• "Subhero" - Everyday Fiction, June 27, 2017.
• ​"Penalty" - 50-Word Stories, March 20, 2017.
• ​"Lucky Thirteen" - Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, January 2017.
  • Book Review of Issue 27 at SFRevu.
• ​"A Helping Hand" - Bloodbond, November 2016.
• "Pillar of Salt" - Apocalypse Chronicles anthology, Almond Press, March 31, 2016. Shortlisted in the Apocalypse Chronicles Writing Contest.
• "King of Beasts" - Perpetual Motion Machine newsletter, June 30, 2015.​
• "The Other Woman" - Bards and Sages Quarterly, April 3, 2015.
• "Carried Too Far" - SpeckLit, January 15, 2015.
• "Skyjacked" - SpeckLit, April 3, 2014.

• "Out in the Open" - Off Topic Publishing, August 14, 2025. Honorable mention in the July fiction contest.
• ​"Underground Topography" - Hypertext Magazine, December 10, 2021.
• "Basic Training" - Alternative War anthology, November 13, 2021.
• ​"Going Along" - Branching Out: International Tales of Brilliant Flash Fiction, July 8, 2021.
• ​"When Angels Fly" - City. River. Tree., March 10, 2021.
• "Forgotten" - America's Emerging Literary Fiction Writers anthology, Z Publishing House, May 19, 2019.
• ​"Liquid" - Quail Bell Magazine, May 15, 2019.
• ​"Ceasefire" - The Ekphrastic Review, April 5, 2019.
• ​"Liquid" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• ​"In Mourning" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.​
• "Equations" - Connecticut's Emerging Writers: An Anthology, Z Publishing House, September 2, 2018.
• ​"The 10 Aspirations" - Tiferet Journal, February 16, 2018.
• ​"In Mourning" - Double Take anthology, January 9, 2018.
• "Unrequited" - blink-ink, December 2017.
• "Expectations" - 101 Words, September 15, 2017.
• ​"Taiki-chu no chinmoku: The Silence of Waiting" - Litro, July 6, 2017.  Editor's Pick.
• ​"The Separation" - Five on the Fifth, June 5, 2017.
• ​"Reciprocal" - Microfiction Monday, June 5, 2017.
• "An Absence of Stars" - Corvus Review, July 13, 2016.
• ​​"Split Mind" - Gone Lawn, September 15, 2015.
• ​"The Story of Essa" - FLAPPERHOUSE, June 18, 2015.
• ​"Definitions" - Bop Dead City, May 2015.  Winner of Issue 11's 3rd annual flash fiction contest.
• ​"Transmutation" - FLAPPERHOUSE, December 22, 2014.
• ​"On the Fly" - Flash Fiction Online, August 1, 2014.
• "The Maybe Baby" - Flash Fiction Chronicles, April 29, 2014. Patricia McFarland Memorial Award winner.
• "Christine" - Red Wheelbarrow, vol 2, 2001.
• "Holiday" - Red Wheelbarrow, vol 2, 2001.

• "Basic Training" - Alternative War anthology, November 13, 2021.
• ​"Missed Connections" - Fiction on the Web, August 9, 2021.
• "On Algid Shores" - America's Emerging Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers anthology, Z Publishing House, May 19, 2019.
• ​"After Life" - On Spec, vol 29, no 3-4, April 2019.
  
  • Review at Tangent Online.
• "Unrequited" - blink-ink, December 2017.

• ​"Unexpected" - The 50-Word Stories of 2022: Microfiction for Lovers of Quick Reads (50 Give or Take), November 22, 2022.
• ​"Unexpected" - 50 Give or Take, January 10, 2022.
• ​"Carried Too Far" - Martian Magazine (Issue 2), December 24, 2021.
• ​"In Due Rescue" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• ​​"What Johnny Wants for Christmas" - 200 CCs: Year One Anthology, December 23, 2017.
• ​​"God's Pig" - The Airgonaut, July 1, 2017.
• ​"Penalty" - 50-Word Stories, March 20, 2017.
• "What Johnny Wants for Christmas" - 200 CCs, December 25, 2016. Runner up in the Christmas contest.
• ​"Case Closed" - The Fable Online, June 10, 2015.
• "Nothing for Sale" - Saturday Night Reader, November 20, 2014.
• ​"On the Fly" - Flash Fiction Online, August 1, 2014.

• "Wild" - 50-Word Stories, July 19, 2017.

• "The Princess Prevarication" - Ghosts on Drugs anthology, forthcoming.
• "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.
• ​"The Development" - Dark Cheer: Cryptics Emerging (Volume Silver), May 4, 2022.
• "Working Overtime" - Theresa Barker - Lab Notes, November 20, 2021.
• "A Delightful Delay" - The 50-Word Stories of 2021: Microfiction for Lovers of Quick Reads (50 Give or Take), November 9, 2021.
• ​"The Development" - Honeyguide Literary Magazine, June 10, 2021.
• ​"A Delightful Delay" - 50 Give or Take, March 23, 2021.
• "The Moral of Fairy Tales" - Six Sentences, March 12, 2021.
• ​"Chains of the Past" - Epic Fantasy Short Stories, September 15, 2019.
• "On Algid Shores" - America's Emerging Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers anthology, Z Publishing House, May 19, 2019.
• ​"Liquid" - Quail Bell Magazine, May 15, 2019.
• "A Body at Rest" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "A Farmer's Good Luck" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "After War" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "Enchantress of Books" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• ​"The Godmother's Bargain" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "Grandmother Winter" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "The Heart of Yuki-onna" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "In Due Rescue" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "The Last Battle" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "The Lost Children" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "Penned" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "Siren Song" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "The Soldier's Choice" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• ​"The Next Day" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• ​"Performing Arts" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• ​"The Race" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• ​"After Life" - On Spec, vol 29, no 3-4, April 2019.
  • Review at Tangent Online.
• "Finale Fortissimo" - Bewildering Stories, November 5, 2018. Picked for the Editors' Choice Fourth Quarterly Review.
• "Red" - Tesseracts Twenty-One: Nevertheless anthology, September 3, 2018.
• ​"After War" - Broadswords and Blasters, April 8, 2018.
• ​"Regrets" - 200 CCs: Year One Anthology, December 23, 2017.
• "Tough" - blink-ink, December 2017.
  • Lit Mag Review of Blink-Ink - 2017, Issue 30 at New Pages.
• ​​"The Soldier's Choice" - Swords and Sorcery Magazine, September 2017.
• "A Farmer's Good Luck" - Tales from the Sunrise Lands anthology, Guardbridge Books, July 21, 2017.
• "Subhero" - Everyday Fiction, June 27, 2017.
• "Rescued" - The Drabble, June 19, 2017.
• "Pretty" - 101 Fiction, June 11, 2017.
• "The Last Wish" - Zeroflash, May 27, 2017.
• "The Race" - Fantasia Divinity Magazine, April 6, 2017.
• "Breakup" - The Drabble, January 22, 2017.
• "A Body at Rest" - Enchanted Conversation, July 1, 2016.
• ​"Supply and Demand" - Bewildering Stories Second Quarterly Review, June 20, 2016.
• "The Godmother's Bargain" - Once Upon a Scream anthology, HorrorAddicts.net, April 23, 2016.
  • Book Review: 'Once Upon a Scream', edited by Dan Shaurette, Cultured Vultures, by Adiba Jaigirdar, May 14, 2016.
• "Supply and Demand" - Bewildering Stories, May 2, 2016.
• ​"Regrets" - 200 CCs, March 18, 2016.
• "The Heart of Yuki-onna" - Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell Eligible Authors anthology, March 3, 2016 (reprint).
• "The Lost Children" - Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell Eligible Authors anthology, March 3, 2016 (reprint).
• "Grandmother Winter" - Up and Coming: Stories by the 2016 Campbell Eligible Authors anthology, March 3, 2016 (reprint).
• "Treasured" - Space Squid, February 15, 2016.​
• "The Heart of Yuki-onna" - Frozen Fairy Tales anthology, World Weaver Press, November 10, 2015.
• "The Next Day" - Mystic Signals, August 5, 2015.
• "The Next Day" - The Lorelei Signal, July 3, 2015.
• ​"Faster" - The Fable Online, June 24, 2015.
• ​"The Lost Children" - Abbreviated Epics, Third Flatiron Anthologies, November 1, 2014.
• "Protecting the Family Honor" - SpeckLit, February 26, 2015.
• "Tourists in Hell" - SpeckLit, May 17, 2014.
• ​"Grandmother Winter" - On the Premises, March 9, 2014. Second place in contest # 22.
• "Penned" - Fundamentally Challenged: Stories of Possible People and Impossible Change, anthology edited by Jeffrey Turner, 2004.

• ​"The Ocean's Misfortune" - The Lost Librarian's Grave, November 26, 2021.
• ​"The Godmother's Bargain" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• ​"Performing Arts" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• ​​"Revenge" - Enchantress of Books and other stories, April 3, 2019.
• "Pretty" - 101 Fiction, June 11, 2017.
• ​"Performing Arts" - EGM Shorts, October 22, 2015.
• ​​"Split Mind" - Gone Lawn, September 15, 2015.
• "Revenge" - Halloween Forevermore, March 31, 2015.