PUBLICATIONS

[ AVAILABLE TO READ ONLINE ]

FICTION

Short Stories

  • COMING SOON: "Late-Night Calls” [Fantasy Horror/Speculative Fiction], to be published in 34 Orchard, Issue 11. A rookie paramedic contemplates quitting as he struggles to grapple with the mounting guilt over all the people he has failed to save. Available April 25, 2025.

  • The Water Girl (PDF, pg. 70) [Fantasy]
    A myth about water and women. Water girls climb the mountain in the center of the island to collect water from the sacred cloud. It is a treacherous journey from which most do not return. This is the story of one who did. Her name is Nol. Her sister’s name was Mauna.
    Published in Black Fox Literary Magazine, “Issue 28” (March 2025)

  • Eye of the Beholder (PDF, pg. 22) [Sci-Fi/Speculative Fiction]
    A short story about near-future ophthalmologist Dr. Harry Post. Harry performs extractions on people who, after losing their sight, choose to live in a simulation inside the City Eye Bank—in doing so, they agree to donate the viable parts of their eyes if and when they are needed. One day, Harry decides to bring something pretty to spruce the bland government building up.
    Published in orangepeel literary magazine, “Issue 8 - the future” (May 2024)

  • Sell Your Heart [Horror/Black Comedy]
    A short story about the grisly lengths one young man goes to get out from under the burden of his student loans. Not for the faint of heart.
    Published in Mania Magazine, “Issue Three” (March 2024)

  • The Heist at the End of the World [Sci-Fi/Speculative Fiction]
    Two lifelong friends, an ex-con (Maddy) and a tollbooth worker (Halima) pull off one last heist: robbing the tollbooths up and down the Florida Turnpike to get enough money to earn passage on the last rocket leaving Earth for the new world: Planet F.
    Published in BarBar Literary Magazine (September 2023)

Flash Fiction

CREATIVE NONFICTION

Personal Essay

  • The Mermaid in the Pond [Memoir]
    A creative nonfiction piece recalling the time my childhood friend Jessica and I went looking for the mermaid she told me she had seen in the pond behind her mother’s house.
    Published in Talk Vomit, Spring ‘24 Issue (April 2024)

Articles/Reviews (A-Z)

*Self-published on my blog

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FICTION

Short Stories (A-Z)

  • The Other Side of the Tree (Amazon) [Fantasy]
    A semi-autobiographical short story about a young girl dealing with bullying and isolation who finds a portal in the woods of her family’s campground.
    Published in Livina Press, “Issue 8” (April 2024)

  • Skip, Hop, Jump (Amazon) [Sci-Fi/Speculative Fiction]
    A short story about a woman with an inoperable brain aneurysm who travels through time to try to find a cure. (Come for the speculative fiction, stay for the Crazy Taxi 2 references.)
    Published in Luna Station Quarterly, “Issue 055” (Sept. 2023)