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HAD, February 2026
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After his girlfriend leaves him, a man follows a strange couple into a field of glowing televisions where other versions of his life flicker just out of reach.
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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.
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.
scaffold, 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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*Nominated for Best Microfiction*
*Selected for ELJ Edition's annual micro-fiction calendar*
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.
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.
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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, 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*​
*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, fear, and the moment innocence is quietly taken away.
Maudlin House, January 2026
After reconnecting with a long-silent friend, a man attends an indistinguishable punk show only to later discover that the band’s “boring” spoken words were detailed murder instructions, which linger with him like an unsettling tune long after nothing special was supposed to happen.
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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*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]
After watching his neighbor indulge a child’s fleeting fantasy with a temporary pony, a man impulsively declares his own life fixed, only to have that fragile illusion tested by a stranger at the door who smells of the very upkeep he thought he’d escaped.
Jersey Devil Press, February 2026
A surreal breakup story in which a couple’s ritual quest for a glowing, in-between soda becomes a metaphor for a relationship stalled between change and sameness, ending with absence, aftertaste, and light that won’t quite go out.
"Offering"
Five on the Fifth, [Forthcoming]
A ten-year-old with cystic fibrosis attends a grocery-store-turned-revival where a preacher stages healings, and when nothing changes for him, he silently witnesses the quiet collapse of faith in both himself and a supposedly healed woman.