Publications

“Five Easy Payments of Nothing Ever Changes” in The Forge Literary Magazine, Winner of the 2025 Forge Flash Fiction Competition, forthcoming 2025

“Boys with Feelings” in Wigleaf, 2019

“Stop me if you've heard this one: two boys walk into a coffee shop, with their backpacks and their duct tape-covered Bibles…”

Boys with Secrets,” in The Forge Literary Magazine, 2019

“After my best friend broke up with me for Jesus, my other best friend invited me over to watch his favorite film. I was crying, not at the film, which was actually a porn…”

Second Base,” in SmokeLong Quarterly, 2018

“New rule says we must choose hands for hands or phones for hands. Not both. No exceptions.”

Unmentionables,” in Paper Darts, 2018

My leggings split. My pilates instructor saw my vagina. I was rethinking everything. “I guarantee she has a designer pussy,” I said between bites of quinoa.”

“Day of Rest,” in Indiana Review, (print), 2018

Ruth first approached her replacement like any God-fearing woman would, placing her human hand on the robot’s end effector and reading from Leviticus…”

“The Ever-Improving Marcy Leonard” in Copper Nickel 26, (print), 2018

Marcy Leonard literally can’t wait for this new chapter. OK, not literally. She can wait. She will wait.”

Whale Watch Chaperone Application 17.B,” in Booth 11 (print), 2017

“We note that responsible party, MOTHER, cannot commit to a verbatim account of what happened when she was twelve.”