SHORT STORIES & FLASH FICTION

[PUBLISHED ONLINE]

Click on bold titles to read stories:

“Under the Tuscan Rain” | After the Art (March 2025)

“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)

“At the Beauty Parlor” | Lilith (April 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 | MyFather’s Daughter: Stories by Women (Crossing Press, 1990)