Realistic Fiction

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Lord, Deliver Me From This Awful Hunger

I wondered if this was normal—all these dead drivers, all these spoiled meals.
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Featured in The Book of the Month Club's Volume 0, ​November 2024.

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Monkey Men

We never really knew him. We never knew the story.
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Featured in The Rumpus, ​July 2015.

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Thunderstorm Facts

The fear of lightning and thunder is called astraphobia; there is no name for the love of lightning and thunder.

Featured in HAD, November 2020.  

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Rebooting How  I Met Your Mother for the 2020-2021 Network TV Season

Ted looks out over the city and wonders how many how many connections this pandemic has robbed him of, how many love stories. 

Featured in No Contact, March 2021.

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Admiring Bronson

"Look at it," he told us. "Take in the mystery."


Featured in Blue Earth Review ​issue 30, summer 2023.

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Untitled Love Story - First Draft

His name is Mr. Carrot. He loves you. 

Featured in Ghost Town, August 2018.

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Why We Burned Everything We Burned

"This," he said, standing before the fire, "is a symbol."

Featured in After the Pause, December 2016.
​Reprinted in After the Pause - Year Three.

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Alive @ 148 MPH

The difference between you and that egg is control.

Featured in The Sonder Review, February 2018.

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After You

They're emotional fireworks? Poorly disguised euphemisms ​for ejaculation?
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Featured in Writing Disorder, December 2015.

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The Last Times You Saw Jenny McCreary

I am a very ordinary orange.

Featured in Buffalo Almanack, December 2014. 

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