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HAD, February 2026
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
In memory of the author's mother-in-law, Dorothy, a woman who embraced life without boundaries and believed whales would guide her after death, is remembered through symbols of rainbows and whale song.
*Nominated for Best Microfiction*
*Nominated for the Pushcart Prize*
*Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist (2026)*
*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.
"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.
*Nominated for the Pushcart Prize*
*Selected for Best of Halfway Down the Stairs 2005-2025*
Pictura Journal, 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.
*Selected for scaffold's Top 50 Micro Writings of 2025*
Rat Bag Lit, May 2026
A man repeatedly cleans his pool to erase what winter, and his own mind, refuse to let go.
scaffold, 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.
Bending Genres, April 2026
Every night, something claws at the door—
years later, in a sterile room, it sounds like a heartbeat.
Literally Stories, [Forthcoming, July 20, 2026]
A grieving man haunted by memories of his late love forms an unlikely connection with a homeless woman in a possum coat beside a mall fountain where wishes seem to outlive the people who make them.
