Full Stories
“There was light and dark and I thought I saw someone signaling from the depths, an arm pulling from water, a bent elbow in a bay and I knew at once it was Dad J, reaching out for me, Dad J still swimming in the murky water before he had a chance to drown.”
“Long QT” — a short story about mysteries inside our heart — is included in Entrances and Exits: TBR Blanc 26, The Brussels Review’s international anthology of thirty-one voices navigating life’s thresholds.
“Though the scent faded over the next year, Orion’s longing for his dead father only increased, along with his confusion about whose son he really was.”
From: “Orion’s Belt.” (Read it now in The Alembic, Spring 2016, p. 25)
*Both stories above are excerpts from Orion’s Nebula, a multi-decade novel-in-progress about a love triangle, a tragic accident, and the genetic disease that exposes a death long mistaken for suicide.
“I imagine she felt as if everyone could see through that white and navy blouse, knowing she was a scarred woman on a maiden voyage, trying her best to be a wife again.”
From “Floodlights,” (Read it now in CRAFT, Jan 7, 2026)
“He seemed the perfect person to lift weights with, if only I could get him to notice me.”
From “Squat Stands,” (Read it now in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Jan 7, 2022)
“They all had their stories. It didn’t matter what happened in life, only what did them in. I tried to slow things down but their golden years accelerated into increasingly frequent doctor visits, higher co-pays, and even more bureaucracy. Then they died.”
From: “A Big Heart.” (Chaleur Magazine, Feb 6, 2019)
“Though the scent faded over the next year, Orion’s longing for his dead father only increased, along with his confusion about whose son he really was.”
From: “Orion’s Belt.” (Read it now in The Alembic, Spring 2016, p. 25)
“Pathology labs are always located in the basement, as if they want to ease your body parts into the ground even before they finish admiring your first tumor.”
From: “Is My Husband’s Autopsy Covered?” (Read it now in Forge, 2014, 8)
“I was always fearful of losing Simone to a gymnast, not a Siamese twin.”
From: “The Incest Clinic,” The G.W. Review, April 2011
(CAUTION: CONTAINS SEXUAL CONTENT SOME READERS MAY FIND UNSUITABLE)
Poetry
“Catarrh of Discord,” and “I am Placenta” The Banyan Review, Spring 2021
“Blue Storm,” Spring, 2020
“Thoughts Prior to Dreams,” Winter, 2019
“Grieving with the Statues,” Compass Rose, Winter 2009
“Cremation of a Memory,” The Texas Review, 2007
“In A Gravitational Meadow,” Mudfish, 2007, 15:42
Other Credits
“Dual Images (Requiring Parental Guidance),” The Griffin, 2009
“An Equine Friend,” Mudfish, 2007, 15:43
“His Child Eating,” The Distillery, 2007, 13.2:84
“Observation of a woman in a hotel room,” Cairn, 2007, 42:29
“Fog Land,” Slipstream, 2006: 26
“Following My Shadows and Menopause,” Ducts.org, 2004:13