Short Stories & Flash Fiction [Published Online]

Click on bold titles to read stories:

“Reappearance” Dorothy Parker’s Ashes: The Clock Issue (May 2022)

“Running Boy” Reflex Fiction, Quarterly International Flash Fiction Competition (Longlisted Summer 2021; published August 28, 2021)

“About a Boy” My Paper Ghosts (June 29, 2021, scroll down to 13th story in collection inspired by found photos of a boy in Portugal)

“The Desk” ROAM: Representations of Home Creative Journal, University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (Spring/Summer 2021)

“Breezy Girl on a High Balcony” My Paper Ghosts (Spring 2021) Honorable Mention, Vintage Photo Story Contest

“Will Work for Food” Farmer-ish (Spring 2021)

“Reluctant to See the Sun Go Down” Crossroads International (February 2020), Winner Flash Nonfiction Contest

“BFFs” Chicken Soup for the Soul, Dogs Issue (Fall 2021), Fiction Southeast (November 2019), Hemingway Flash Fiction Prize 2018 Finalist; featured on Story Radio Podcast (June 2020)

“Tangible Things” The Coachella Review (November 2019), accepted for publication with no edits :)

“Attention” Tishman Review (July 2018), one of three Top 10 Tillie Olsen Short Story Award Winners selected for publication

"Apprehension" [excerpt], East Coast Ink, Portraiture Issue (July 2014, pp. 33-34)

"Dancing with J. D. Salinger" SOL: English Writing in Mexico (March 2013)

"Love Is Blind in One Eye" ChickLitReview.org (Jan 2007)

"La Gruta" BostonLiteraryMagazine.com (Fall 2006)

"Emporio Rulli” RedbridgeReview.co.uk (Summer 2006)

Short Stories [Print Anthologies]

"The Poet, Off Hours" Zebulon Nights (2003)

"Firewalking" Marin Review (Spring 1986)

"Indian Springs" Sideshow (1996)

"Purple and Red Mouths" Sideshow (1993)

"Someplace Else" Sideshow (1992)

"Waiting for God" Sideshow (1991)

"Meeting My Father Halfway, My Father’s Daughter : Stories by Women (Crossing Press, 1990)