Fiction
- “The Scarecrow Takes a Series of IQ Tests.” Fractured Lit. 2025.
- “The Tree Cutters Ride.” (video recording) Alaska Quarterly Review, 41.1, 2025.
- “On the Beach Where Bodies Bide.” Blue Earth Review, 34, 2025.
- “Ecdysis.” Bluestem, 2025.
- “Bicuspid.” Ninth Letter, 20.2, 2024.
- “The Astronaut Shops,” Fractured Lit, 2024.
- “Rosie the Riveter’s Résumé.” Arrowsmith Journal, 26, 2024.
- “Bartleby’s Résumé.” Moon City Review, 2024.
- “The Disappearing Goat.” Oxford Magazine, 53, 2024.
- “We Hid It from the Kids.” The Forge Literary Magazine, 2024.
- “Never Enough.” Four Way Review, 2024.
- “Just Care.” Cimarron Review, 216-217, 2024.
- “The Man with the Yellow Hat.” New Ohio Review, 35, 2023.
- “While Dorothy Sleeps, Tin Woodman Visits WebMD.” Cream City Review, 47.2, 2023.
- “Deficit.” The Citron Review, 2023.
- “Privy.” LitMag, 5, 2022.
- “God Chooses the Wheelbarrow.” Gulf Coast, 35.1, 2022.
- “Dad, Sought.” Gigantic Sequins, 13, 2022.
- “The Night the Stars Fell.” One Story, 289, 2022.
- “Dad, Sought.” Gigantic Sequins, 13, 2022.
- “Essentials.” SLICE, 27, 2022.
- “Paul Bunyan’s Résumé.” The Minnesota Review, 98, 2022.
- “This Picture of Your House.” Litmosphere, 2022.
- “A Tiger Someday.” Southern Humanities Review, 2022.
- “The Face.” The Rupture, 117, 2022.
- “Rats and Cats and Snakes.” Necessary Fiction, 2022.
- “A Nesting.” Micro Podcast, 2021.
- “A Sky So Sharp.” The Fiddlehead, 285, 2020.
- “Smoke at the End of the World.” DIAGRAM, 20.4, 2020.
- “Orville Killen: Lifetime Stats.” Alaska Quarterly Review, 37.1, 2020.
- “Pike’s Deathbed Blazes on.” The Boiler, 2020.
- “One Fist Holding.” Okay Donkey, 2020.
- “Such a Good Man.” Redivider, 17.1, 2019. Winner of the Beacon Street Prize.
- “John Henry’s Résumé.” Another Chicago Magazine, 2020.
- “Kill Your Music.” (video recording) Faultline, 29, 2020.
- “The Ouija Board Inspector.” The Forge Literary Magazine, 2020.
- “Eat Fire.” BULL: Men’s Fiction, 2019.
- “The First Woman.” The South Carolina Review, 52.2, 2020.
- “The Magician’s Secret.” Juked, 2019.
- “Red Shoe Twitch.” Yalobusha Review, 29, 2019.
- “Tidying Up.” Wigleaf, 2019.
- “A Sick Child.” The Masters Review, 2019.
- “Dad Died in Denim.” Puerto del Sol, 54.1, 2019.
- “The Life Net.” Moon City Review, 2019.
- “The Taking Away,” Isthmus, 8, 2019.
- “The Christmas Clown.” Chiron Review, 114, 2018.
- “Bruise Room.” Cold Mountain Review, 2018.
- “In Darkness Floating” in The Journal, 2018.
- “Still Life” in Atticus Review, 2018.
- “The Whites” in CRAFT, 2018.
- “A Nesting” in Wigleaf, 2018.
- “Go to Oso” in The Adroit Journal, 2018.
- “A Tomb Dug Under Mother” in Bayou, 2018.
- “Work at Home” in Jabberwock Review, 2018.
- “When We” in Necessary Fiction, 2017.
- “Snake in a Can” in Baltimore Review, 2017.
- “Father at Shift End.” Bateau, 7.1, 2017.
- “My Pupil, Dive Site” and “Long Division.” Gargoyle, 66, 2017.
- “A Realistic Airplane.” The Saturday Evening Post, 2017.
- “Scraps on Fire.” Washington Square Review, 39 (2017).
- “In This Room I Make Red.” Witness, 30.1, 2017.
- “Interstate Intestine.” New South, 2017.
- “Seven-Eighths.” Psychopomp Magazine, 2017.
- “Elvira Is an Asshole.” Flyway, 2016.
- “Postal Heterochromia.” New South, 2015.
- “Teddy Shoots.” New Madrid, 10.2, 2015.
- “Silence in Forty-Two.” Smokelong Quarterly, 48, 2015.
- “Conch Tongue.” Cimarron Review, 191, 2015.
- “Father’s Knots.” Columbia Journal, 2015.
- “One Hundred-Knuckled Fist.” Juked, 12, 2015.
- “Pitch.” Pleiades, 35.2, 2015.
- “Father Eats.” Bat City Review, 11, 2015.
- “Of the Last Sight of Sir John Mandeville.” Crossborder, 3.1, 2015.
- “Touching in Texas.” The Threepenny Review, 141, 2015.
- “Ice Cream Dream.” MAKE Magazine, 15, 2014.
- “The Salesmen Approach.” The Journal, 38.2 (2014).
- “Everything a Snake Needs.” Quarter After Eight, 20, 2014.
- “Workmen’s Compensation.” Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review, 20.1, 2014.
- “Sawdust and Glue.” Sou’wester, 42.1, 2013.
- “Almost Touching, Almost Free.” The Masters Review, 1, 2013.
- “No Good for Digging.” Green Mountains Review, 2013.
- “One More for You.” Yemassee, 20.1, 2013.
- “Home Through a Rat Hole.” Fifth Wednesday Review, 12, 2013.
- “Grandpa Dies.” Quarterly West, 76, 2012.
- “The Fire Chasers.” Blue Mesa Review, 25, 2012.
- “Building Walls.” Puerto del Sol, 47.1, 2012.
- “Can-Picking,” Phoebe, 2012.
- “Avoiding Accident in the Subdivisions,” Witness, 25.1, 2012.
- “The Plumber who Found Treasure.” Hobart, 2011.
- “Strong as Paper Men.” Copper Nickel, 15, 2011.
- “Lysol Fights.” Indiana Review, 33.1, 2011.
- “Self-Destruct.” Southeast Review, 29.1, 2011.
- “Mr. James K. Polk, Please Hold My Windbreaker.” Cream City Review, 35.1, 2011.
- “Pushing the Knives.” On the Clock: A Book of Post-Industrial Fiction. Bottom Dog Press, 2010.
- “Scratch.” Palooka, 1, 2010.
- “Zombies! Rodemom!” Gargoyle Magazine, 56, 2010.
- “Pushing the Knives.” Black Warrior Review, 35.2, 2009.
Creative Nonfiction
- “A Better Trap.” Barely South Review, 11.1, 2019.
- “Mario Reconsiders a Profession in Plumbing.” Booth, 2018.
- “My Dog Is a Good Dog.” Potomac Review, 59, 2016.
- “Ripped Red Stitches.” Hobart, 2016.
- “The Mouth Full of Flying.” Barely South Review, 7.3, 2015.
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