Fiction

Matins, Compline

novel excerpt

Kissing Dan is like saying the psalms, outrageous winter faith. Every morning she feels more certain that she should leave him, that leaving would be the loving action.

First Published 2021 in The Windhover

If Party Wolf Jumps

short fiction

All of which is to say when you remember Baker now it’s best to remember him with the wolf mask on…

First Published 2021 in The Waking: Ruminate Online

Tuesday After School

short fiction

He entered the house through the garage and found his mother standing in the kitchen but watching the TV in the living room. The house was still and he had the sense that she had been standing there for some time. On the screen two skyscrapers were streaming black smoke the way people bleed underwater in shark movies.

First Published 2018 in Still Point Arts Quarterly

Weights & Measures

short fiction

He was plunged so deep in tunnel vision now that he was deaf to the thunder rolling off the rooftops around us.

First Published 2015 in The South Carolina Review

Bev Trimpy’s Dog

short fiction

The dog gave a laughing bark and then tore off into the brush, and that was that. There were predators in those woods and the dog was not smart.

First Published 2015 in Dappled Things

Honorable Mention For
The J.F. Powers Prize

By And By, And Yet

short fiction

On the news they say there were tornados as far north as Buffalo and Toronto, but what I know is, here in Chambersburg, the storm ripped the steeple off the church.

First Published 2015 in Lalitamba