Swamp Ape Review, Volume 5, Spring 2022
Swimmers

He doesn’t want to go. Funerals are ritual and he can handle that ritual when the dead’s not his own. Now that it is, he wants to fall apart, not show some tasteful glimpse of mourning.

Jabberwock Review, Volume 42, Issue 1, Summer/Fall 2021
Skittles

Skittles was a rescue dog. That’s what the owner told me the first time we met. Though met, I suppose, isn’t the right word. We didn’t introduce ourselves, shake hands, exchange names. We were simply heading the same direction, walking to the elementary school playground on a Saturday morning.

Puerto Del Sol, Volume 54, Issue 1, Spring 2020
If, On an Afternoon, Then
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize

It was only when she started to change the sheets every Thursday evening that he began to wonder if it was possible that she was having an affair. Part of this was the result of an old, deeply-ingrained habit through which he would speculate about potentialities using if…then statements designed to predict the future.