Stories
I gather inspiration for stories from everyday experiences and combine those experiences with past memories to create imaginative worlds and unique character interactions.
50-Word Stories, June 2025
After Halloween, a parent’s harmless candy theft is quietly avenged by children hiding their own sweet revenge—wrapped in crinkled foil beneath their beds.
CafeLit Magazine, July 2025
A man at the airport reluctantly accepts a stranger’s dog, only to realize as he carries it through security and toward his gate that he's also carrying the emotional weight of his own abandonment—and may finally be ready to stop running.
Scaffold Literary Magazine, October 2025
A man prepares for posthumous recognition, leaving space on the mantel for awards he’ll never receive, clinging to the hope that being remembered might be enough.
BULL Magazine, November 2025
A boy who feels nothing dares danger again and again, hoping pain might prove he’s still alive.
Literary Garage, August 2025
Desperate for connection, a rejected man follows a mysterious flyer to a raucous underground kitchen concert where noise becomes his only language of acceptance.
Emerge Literary Journal, October 2025
A woman who embraced life without boundaries and believed whales would guide her after death is remembered by her loved one through symbols of rainbows, ocean, and whale song.
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*Selected for ELJ Edition's annual micro-fiction calendar*
Rat Bag Lit, November 2025
When his cat brings home a growing brood of mute, one-legged ravens, the narrator finds himself unexpectedly responsible for their eerie, silent presence and powerless to send them away.
Macrame Literary Journal, October 2025
Haunted by the memory of his mother's killing, an eighteen-year-old flagger at a dust-choked motocross race battles the choking noise and panic of flashbacks to dig a fallen rider from the wreckage, counting seconds to keep himself— and her—alive.
Halfway Down the Stairs, December 2025
A father, haunted by the tragic songs his own father sang to him, tries to soothe his children with happier lullabies but finds himself inevitably drawn back into the grief and inheritance of his father’s fading voice.
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*Nominated for the Pushcart Prize*​
Rejection Letters, November 2025
A couple tries to rekindle the good luck that once seemed to follow the wife, but as their fortunes collapse into loss, illness, and desperation, the husband ultimately surrenders to fate—giving away his last winnings and accepting that someone else might make better use of the life that’s slipping from his grasp.
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