A flash fiction piece on singular focus, and all that excludes.

• 247 words.
• Written at age 22.
• Published online by Sublunary Review, 3 December 2025.

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, 26 April 2024.
• Winner of the 2023–24 Jennie Hackman Memorial Prize for Short Fiction, 1st prize.

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 as an excerpt by Long River Review in their bound journal, volume 25, 28 April 2022; this excerpted publication is available from the UConn Archives & Special Collections. Later published online in full by Long River Review, 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 as an excerpt by Long River Review in their bound journal, volume 25, 28 April 2022; this excerpted publication is available from the UConn Archives & Special Collections. Later published online in full by Long River Review, 8 June 2022.

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, 26 February 2019.
• Winner of the 2018 Taylor A. Greene Prose Contest, 1st place.