A short fiction piece that explores the life of a college-age middle child, always running to the support of others, at their own expense. Meanwhile, something rots, and grows.

• Explores themes of family, obligation, invisibility, and sickness.
• 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.

A short fiction piece in three parts. The narrator, on their sickbed, is visited thrice by their doppelganger, an omen of impending death. Somehow, despite this horror, the narrator and doppelganger form a bond in the short time they have together.

• Explores themes of death, love, sickness, and fear.
• 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 segmented short fiction piece exploring the early life of two farm children and their mother, from the perspective of one of those children looking back as an adult.

• Explores themes of family, abuse, and memory.
• 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 short fiction piece examining a teenage boy's particular form of escapism from his neglectful home life.

• Explores themes of family, neglect, friendship, and agency.
• 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.