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“Matins, Compline”
(novel excerpt)
First Published 2021 in The Windhover
Finalist for the 2019 J.F. Powers Prize (as “Bedtime Story”)
“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.”
An Excerpt from The Mountains May Depart
2020 Honorable Mention for the Landmark Prize for Fiction
2019 Finalist for the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize
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“If Party Wolf Jumps”
First Published 2021 in The Waking: Ruminate Online
Finalist for the 2016 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize
“All of which is to say when you remember Baker, it’s best to remember him with the wolf mask on.”
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“Tuesday After School”
Published 2018 in Still Point Arts Quarterly
“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.”
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“Bev Trimpy’s Dog”
First Published 2015 in Dappled Things
Honorable Mention for the 2015 J.F. Powers Prize
“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.”
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“Weights & Measures”
First Published 2015 in The South Carolina Review
“He was plunged so deep in tunnel vision now that he was deaf to the thunder rolling off the rooftops around us.”
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“By And By, And Yet”
First Published 2015 in Lalitamba
“What I know is, here in Chambersburg, the storm ripped the steeple off the church.”
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Ryan Rickrode 