Stories

“Of All the Wants and Hungers.” Creative Colloquy. Nov. 2022.

“Godsend” and Til All the Bones Are Buried (excerpt). Anthologized in Mud Flat Shorts. Mud Flat Press (2022).

“A Meaningful Conversation with a Stranger.” Red Fez. (May 2019).

“The Bones of the Long Forgotten.” Creative Colloquy Vol. 5. (Feb. 2019).

“Godsend.” Typewriters and Salve (Mar. 1, 2018).

“Barefoot in the Guadalupe.” Storytellers Telling Stories podcast 1.18 (Feb. 6, 2018). Originally published in Red Dirt Review (November 14, 2011); also appears in Red Dirt‘s December print issue.

“This Is What We’ve Waited For.” Drunk Monkeys 3.2 (Feb. 2018).

“Dearest the Shadows.” Creative Colloquy Vol. 4. Originally published in Creative Colloquy (11 July 2017).

“Ashfall.” Timberline Review (Winter/Spring 2017).

“Jarabe.” Eunoia Review (1 January 2017). Originally published in SOL: English Writing in Mexico (October 2014).

“An Understanding.” Creative Colloquy (20 November 2016).

“When the Party Ends.” Microfiction Monday Magazine: Best of 2015 (May 2016).

“The Penitent Go to Texas.” Eunoia Review (2 June 2015).

“The Storm.” Microfiction Monday (AWP edition) (13 April 2015). Also anthologized in Microfiction Monday Magazine: Best of 2015.

“Rougarou.” A promotional story for the Rougarou: Journey to the End of the Night event (15 September 2014).

“The Voices Captain Brewster Heard.” WhiskeyPaper (7 September 2014).

“What Have You Done to Deserve Such a Halo.” Bartleby Snopes (August 2014).

“To Smoke the Hookahs.” Red Fez 66 (April 2014).

“Mathematics.” Portland Review (Winter 2014).

“What Scholars Study They Strive to Kill.” The Revenge of the Scammed Anthology (2014).

“Please Know Our Loving Thoughts Embrace You.” Eunoia Review (24 October 2013).

“Have Love, Will Hurt.” The Rusty Nail (August/September 2013).

“Air Enough at Last.” The Corner Club Press 8.2 (2013).

“Everything Fit to Consume.” Unshod Quills 7 (April 2013).

“In the Pulse There Lies Conviction: Potato“ (novella excerpt). The Writing Disorder (Spring 2013).

“All That Is Given Will Return.” Prick of the Spindle 7.1 (March 2013).

Hagridden (novel excerpt). SOL: English Writing in Mexico (March 2013).

“This Small, Other Life.” Deimos eZine 2.1 (March 2013).

“You Always.” Quickly 2/3 (March 2013).

“Curl Up and Burn.” Eunoia Review (3 February 2013).

“Period.” Crack the Spine 50 (9 January 2013).

“Consuela Throws Her TV Away.” Fiction Southeast (Fall 2012). Originally published in Orchid: A Literary Review 2 (Spring 2003).

“Lightning My Pilot.” Bartleby Snopes (September 2012). Also anthologized in print issue 9 (2013).

“The Things We Said We Never Heard.” WhiskeyPaper (9 September 2012).

“Duel.” Visceral Uterus (21 August 2012).

“Summerplace.” Eunoia Review (23 July 2012).

“Scenes from an Open Marriage.” Collaborative story with Jordan Blum, Julie Innis, and Meg Tuite. Exquisite Quartet series. Used Furniture Review (9 July 2012). Also anthologized in Exquisite Quartet Anthology 2012 (2013).

“The Voice You Throw, the Blow You Catch.” Fiction Circus (25 June 2012). Originally published as a guest story in Our Band Could Be Your Lit (May 29, 2011).

“No Milk Would Come.” Scintilla Magazine 2 (Spring 2012).

“Skyclad,” “The Edge of Seventeen,” “Cleave,” “Camera Obscura,” and “Drinking Coffee with David Lynch.” Unshod Quills 4 (April 2012).

“Kicking to Stay On.” Fried Chicken and Coffee (March 23, 2012).

“It Was the Only Way.” SOL: English Writing in Mexico (March 2012).

“The Resurrection of Old Saint Nick.” Jersey Devil Press (Holiday Half-Issue 2011).

“Colony.” Jersey Devil Press 24 (September 2011). Originally published as a guest story in Our Band Could Be Your Lit (June 5, 2011).

Hagridden (novel excerpt). Sententia #3 (August 2011).

“The Falling Trees.” Guest story in Our Band Could Be Your Lit (June 13, 2011).

“Sun-shy.” Guest story in Our Band Could Be Your Lit (May 23, 2011).

“How Many Tylenol Does It Take To Kill Myself?” Guest story in Our Band Could Be Your Lit (May 15, 2011).

“A Few May Remember.” Midwest Literary Magazine (April 2011). Also anthologized in Soft Corners (2011).

“Dream With Enough Conviction.” Red Fez 32 (March 2011).

“Still Alive.” Red Fez 32 (March 2011).

“Horror Vacui.” Ampersand Review (Vol. 6, online edition, 2011).

“Buzz.” Guest story in Our Band Could Be Your Lit (October 3, 2010).

“Kamikaze.” Red Fez 28 (September 2010).

“A Smooth, Clean Cut.” Forge 4.1 (July 2010).

“Box Cutters.” Temenos (Spring 2010). Also anthologized in Temenos: Sharing Words Without Fear 2010.

“How Long My Bruises Will Last.” Tonopah Review (January 2009).

“Bathe in the Doggone Sin.” Red Wheelbarrow (2008).

“Distance.” Amarillo Bay 5:4 (November 2003).

“Coffee, Black.” The Rectangle 78 (2003). Originally published in Amarillo Bay 3:2 (May 2001)

“The Simple Things.” Bias Onus Quarterly (Spring 2002).

“Lawn Tender.” The Rectangle 77 (2002).

“Counting Telephone Poles.” Published in two parts. Denton Scramble 2:10 & 3:1 (December 2001 & February 2002).

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