Non-Fiction
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A Survey of the Landscape"You're a cold motherfucker, Eustice," Mayor Marlin says to the tree commissioner. "And you're overruled."
Featured in Ninth Letter, June 2021. |
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You Will Understand After Entering"We tear enough shit down in Denver to put up crappy luxury apartments and storage garages...Casa Bonita is a piece of history."
Featured in The Potomac Review, January 2022. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Additional Casa Bonita reportage featured in Denver Westword. |
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Pete Mitchell Wants the Mere Possibility of a Happier EndingChip and Dale have gone their separate ways over creative differences; a new Ghostface killer is terrorizing Sydney Prescott; The Muppets all fucking hate each other. The ending that you thought you knew is not really an ending at all.
Featured in Electric Literature, January 2023. |
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Return to Bird IslandThe sign said, LAKE USE FOR HOA MEMBERS ONLY, and NO SWIMMING AFTER DUSK, and ISLAND ACCESS PROHIBITED, but we stripped and swam the fifty or so yards out, anyway.
Featured in Hobart After Dark, May 2022. |
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Non-Violent Reporting in a Year of Uprisings & UpheavalThis destruction is senseless, these broadcasters seem to tell us, and the words come out soft, soothing, in the voice of your grandmother, or your favorite teacher, your very first lover. It has nothing to do with hunger.
Featured in Denver Westword, September 2020. |
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You Cut Out For a SecondWe are creative and funny and interesting, but there is an undeniable sense that in 90 minutes, we have already exhausted the limitations of this form.
Featured in Stain'd Magazine, 2021. |
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Search Party Dared Me To Imagine Myself at the End of the WorldSearch Party asks us to project forward to imagine ourselves as incurably and insufferably ourselves in the face of unimaginable existential threats and total annihilation. Which is to say: it forces us to see who we are right now.
Featured in Electric Literature, March 2022. |