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HAD, February 2026
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A man with orchids in his hands wanders into a field of glowing televisions that seem to know every life he might live.
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CafeLit Magazine, July 2025
A stranger hands him a trembling Yorkie in an airport security line, and somewhere between the metal detector and his departure gate he must decide what kind of man keeps what others leave behind.
50-Word Stories, June 2025
A father steals a single candy from each Halloween bag, only to discover months later that his children have been quietly settling the score.
scaffold, October 2025
A man prepares his mantel for awards he will only receive once he is gone.
BULL Magazine, November 2025
A boy raised to fear every touch grows into a man determined to find something that can finally hurt him.
Literary Garage, August 2025
A lonely man follows a mysterious flyer into a crumbling house where acceptance must be earned through noise, blood, and a single dented spoon.
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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*Nominated for Best Microfiction*
*Nominated for the Pushcart Prize*
*Selected for ELJ Edition's annual micro-fiction calendar*
Macrame Literary Journal, October 2025
A silent survivor of a childhood shooting takes a job at a dirt-bike track, where one crash in a storm of dust forces him to decide whether he will remain buried in the past or step back into the noise.
Rat Bag Lit, November 2025
A character’s cat begins bringing him ravens one by one until the house fills with silent witnesses he cannot send away.
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*Nominated for Best Small Fiction*
*Nominated for the Pushcart Prize*​
"The Five Songs My Father Knew"
Halfway Down the Stairs, December 2025
A father tries to replace the tragic lullabies of his childhood with gentler songs for his own children, but the old music keeps finding its way back.
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*Nominated for the Pushcart Prize*​
*Selected for Best of Halfway Down the Stairs 2005-2025*
"Given to Hold"
Pictura Journal, [Forthcoming April 2026]
A childhood act of kindness toward a stranded hitchhiker turns into a frightening lesson about vulnerability.
Maudlin House, January 2026
After ten years of silence, a man follows an old friend to a punk show where the music sounds like noise until he realizes he may have been listening to something else entirely.
Rejection Letters, November 2025
A man marries the luckiest woman he knows until the day he begins to suspect that luck might belong to someone else.
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*Selected for scaffold's Top 50 Micro Writings of 2025*
"Liquid Willow Hoop"
Rat Bag Lit, [Forthcoming]
A man repeatedly cleans his pool to erase what winter, and his own mind, refuse to let go.
"Maintenance"
scaffold, [Forthcoming March 2026]
A man impulsively declares his own life fixed, only to have that fragile illusion tested by a stranger.
Jersey Devil Press, February 2026
A man insists his girlfriend try a neon-green soda that tastes like nothing on earth, and by morning the world feels a little less real than the bottle glowing in his fridge.
"Offering"
Five on the Fifth, March 2026
In a folding-chair church where miracles happen on cue, a ten-year-old waits his turn and realizes he might be the only one who isn’t healed.
"Thump-Thump, Silence"
Bending Genres, [Forthcoming, April 2026]
Every night, something claws at the door—
years later, in a sterile room, it sounds like a heartbeat.​