Elaborations: Fiction
Short Fiction: Elaborations
Gravity is a Vertical Timeline / 1 May 2026
A person falls in a bottomless pit, trailing memories behind them.
- 1,600 words.
- Written at age 21.
- Published by Reed Magazine, a digital exclusive of issue 159.
- Note: this piece is not mobile device or screenreader friendly. Ideally read on desktop.
- 1 May 2026.
UNDELIVERANCES / 16 March 2026
A mail-carrier delivers the post and as many little kindnesses as they can to their community, which fights institutional violence in a near-future, flooded, vertical city.
- 5,700 words.
- Written at age 21.
- Published online by The Masters Review.
- Honorable mention, 2025 The Masters Review Summer Short Story Award for New Writers.
- 16 March 2026.
Egg-and-Spoon Life Marathon / 3 December 2025
A flash fiction piece on singular focus, and all that excludes.
- 250 words.
- Written at age 22.
- Published online by Sublunary Review.
- 3 December 2025.
Newton Considers the Still Life / 26 April 2024
A college-age middle child, always running to the support of others, struggles to tend to themself. Meanwhile, fall comes early, and something rots, and grows.
- 4,400 words.
- Written at age 21.
- Published online by Long River Review, a digital exlusive of volume 27.
- Winner of the 2023–24 Jennie Hackman Memorial Prize for Short Fiction, 1st prize.
- Note: I was Fiction Editor of LRR 27. Contests were judged anonymously by outside authors, so my piece's selection was unrelated to my editorship.
- 26 April 2024.
Knell Inevitable / 8 June 2022
On their sickbed, our narrator is visited thrice by their doppelganger, an omen of impending death. During its visitations, doppelganger and narrator form an odd bond destined to break.
- 4,000 words.
- Written at age 19.
- Published physically in excerpt by Long River Review volume 25, 28 April 2022.
- Excerpted publication available from the UConn Archives & Special Collections.
- Published online in full 8 June 2022.
Moon-Stain and Crawdad Eater / 8 June 2022
A series of childhood memories, framed by a stain, a creek, a field, and death.
- 4,000 words.
- Written at age 19.
- Published physically in excerpt by Long River Review volume 25, 28 April 2022.
- Excerpted publication available from the UConn Archives & Special Collections.
- Published online in full 8 June 2022.
You're Prepared (For Nothing That Will Happen, and Everything That Might) / 26 February 2019
A teenage boy indulges a particular form of escapism from his neglectful home life.
- 2,400 words.
- Written at age 16.
- Published online by Blue Muse Magazine.
- Winner of the 2018 Taylor A. Greene Prose Contest, 1st place.
- 26 February 2019.