Short Stories

A Cure for Loneliness (read)
Summerset Review, Summer 2026

Do or Dash (read)
The Bookends Review, October 13, 2025
Second Place in the Mainstream/Literary Short Story category for the
93rd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, October, 2024

The Fourth Time (read)
Fiction on the Web, January 20, 2025

Ava’s World (read, scroll to page 17)
October Hill Magazine, Winter 2024, Volume 8, Issue 4

Sanctuary (read)
Literally Stories, January 2025
Honorable Mention 2024 Mainstream/Literary Short Story category of the 93rd Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition, October, 2024

Life’s Work (read)
Broad River Review, Volume 56, 2024
Finalist 2024 Rash Award in Fiction sponsored by the Broad River Review

Unrecognizable (read)
‍Lunch Ticket, Issue 25, June 2024

Echoes (read)
‍The Seattle Star, February 28, 2023

Redemption (read)‍ ‍
Arlington Literary Journal, February, 2023

Not Yet‍ (read)
RipRap Literary Journal, Issue 45, Spring 2023

The Tether (read, scroll to page 32)
Umbrella Factory Magazine, Issue 58, January 2023

Semicolon (read)‍
The Penmen Review, Southern New Hampshire University’s
Online Journal of Creative Writers, December 2022
Honorable Mention in the 91st Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition in the category of Genre Short Story, November 2022

Sway (read)
Dark Fire Fiction, March 2022

Five Dozen Prayers (read)
Bards and Sages Quarterly Magazine July 2019 Volume X1 Issue III

Always So Happy (read)
upstreet literary magazine (no.13), July 2017
Write Well Award Anthology 2018 Sponsored by Silver Pen Writers

The Turning (read)
Dark Fire Fiction, December 2017

Freedom Gate (read)
Second Place Winner; Show Us Your Shorts 11th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection, Published by Writer’s Digest, 2011