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Short Stories

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Just released...

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

  • ​​"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
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Just released...

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

  • ​​"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.
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Forthcoming...

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

  • "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
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  • "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
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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

  • "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
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  • "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
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  • "Wild" - 50-Word Stories
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