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Forthcoming
Rusting – Interzone
Stasis – Cossmass Infinities
Delayed Arrival – Cast of Wonders
How the Pineapple Cakes Disappeared Before Their Expiration Date – Vassar Review
I can’t tell if dad blames me for losing his grandchild – Ice Queen
Funeral Preparation – Quarter After Eight
Tengu – swallow::tale press (LIMN/LUNE)
Ownership Records – Lunch Ticket
Cycle Control – Gigantic Sequins
The Attic Doesn’t Lead to Antarctica – MumberMag
We don’t say “I love you” in this family – Whale Road Review
Cutting Ties – Moon City Review (finalist in Salt Hill’s Arthur Flowers Flash Fiction Prize)
Afterlife – Tree and Stone
XY – Fireside Magazine
Limbless – Meetinghouse (print)
Evidence of a Soul – Cottonwood (print)
How to save 25k before the solar flare – HOOT Review
2022
Which way are we polarized, Decision Making, Making Time For Pests – Wigleaf, April 2022
Resource Optimization – Paperbark Literary Magazine, April 2022 (3rd in flash fiction contest)
Like Chalk – Apple Valley Review, April 2022
Whalefish – BoomerLitMag, April 2022
Iron Deficiency – AAWW’s The Margins, March 2022
Feeding – SmokeLong Quarterly, March 2022
Why I’m dry tonight and every night – Passages North, March 2022
No Hummus – Chapter House Journal, March 2022
Resurrection – The /tƐmz/ Review, March 2022
I lack a sense of direction on some spatial coordinates – Apparition Literary Magazine, February 2022 (winner of February flash fiction contest)
It has been two years since we’ve been to China because nonessential travel isn’t allowed, and we’re still not going back for Lunar New Year – American Literary Review, February 2022
Bonchon Chats – Cutleaf, February 2022
There were times I wish you were dead – The Rupture, February 2022
When the meteorologist says it’s not totally due to pollution – MudRoom, February 2022
Saving the Savior – OxMag, February 2022
Anchored – Harpur Palate, February 2022
Xian Dan – Height Chart, February 2022 (finalist in Editor’s Choice award)
The 37% Rule – descant (print), January 2022
Magpie – Josephine Quarterly, January 2022
Century Egg, Who believes god is always watching – The Offing, January 2022
Reflection Eater – Hennepin Review, January 2022 (winner Hennepin Review’s inaugural flash fiction prize)
The Effects of Collagen – Peatsmoke Journal, January 2022
If God Had Miscarriages – Unbroken Journal, January 2022
Trigger – The MacGuffin, January 2022 (print)
Perigree – Solarpunk Magazine, January 2022 (winner of December micro fiction contest)
2021
Spicy Stew – The Rumpus, December 2021
Offering – EcoTheo Review (winner of 2021 short fiction contest, print), December 2021
Garlic Garden – Barely South Review, December 2021
Fruit Selection – Minola Review, December 2021
Panacea – Etherea Magazine, December 2021
To you, 100 years from now – Necessary Fiction, December 2021
A Boundary Beyond Which Events Cannot Affect an Observer – Ruminate Ma gaze’s The Waking, December 2021
How to Get Married at 22 – Hypertext Magazine (winner of 2021 Doro Böhme Memorial Essay Contest), December 2021
Late Bloomer – Penumbra Online, December 2021
Self Repair – Planet Scumm, November 2021 (print)
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis – MORIA, November 2021
My AI has an affinity for cheese – Quarterly West, November 2021
Hide and Seek – Nat. Brut, November 2021
Calcification – New Orleans Review, November 2021
Qualia – Chestnut Review, October 2021 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Proficiency – W&S Quarterly, October 2021
Mislabeled – Brink (print), October 2021
Outgrowth – Protean, September 2021
Anterograde – Mslexia, September 2021 (Roots issue 91)
The Carriage Became A Pie – DIAGRAM, August 2021
Grafting – Three-Lobed Burning Eye, August 2021
If sea bass ate humans – Tahoma Literary Review, August 2021 (print)
Teach Me All There Is to Know, Cinderella Has Anterograde Amnesia, Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Pollutants on Behavior in Later Childhood – Wax Nine, August 2021
Egg Wishes – Four Way Review, August 2021
How to make me orgasm – The Cincinnati Review, August 2021 (interview)
Survival Instincts – Native Skin Online, August 2021
This is a divorce story – Honey Literary, July 2021
Unfolding – Orca, July 2021 (print)
Footprint – Funicular, July 2021 (print)
Jiaozi – The Portland Review, July 2021
Hydrogenation – Meow Meow Pow Pow, July 2021
Cog – The Suburban Review, June 2021 (print) (interview)
I will relax in the next life – Milk Candy Review, June 2021 (interview)
Growing Bones – Headland, June 2021 (interview)
You say that like I’m going to die – Vestal Review, June 2021 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Synesthesia – Thin Air Magazine, June 2021 (Runner-up in The Bird in Your Hands Prize)
Mutation – DREGINALD, May 2021
Spear Against Shield, Playing Zither For The Cow – Posit, May 2021
Hatchling – Threadcount, May 2021
There’s no floss after the zombie apocalypse – GASHER, May 2021 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Water Hands – Pif Magazine, May 2021
Character Development – Oyez Review, April 2020
Thigh Gap – Hobart, March 2021
Room Tour – Invisible City, March 2021
Tofu and Chives – Zoetic Press’s NonBinary Review, March 2021 (print)
Bluebeard’s Sister – THE BOILER, February 2021
Seagulls would leave it spotless – The Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, February 2021
The Fox and the Tiger – Figure 1, January 2021
Nurturing – Fractured Lit, January 2021
Escaping Purgatory – The Conium Review, January 2021
Swan Garden – Contrary, January 2021 (Nominated for Best of the Net)
Chairs and Steps – Paranoid Tree, January 2021 (print) (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
2020
Where is the Mouth? – Hypertext Magazine, December 2020 (Nominated for 2020 Best American Short Stories)
Soft-Shelled Turtle – EX/POST, December 2020 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Issues of Concurrency – Jet Fuel Review, December 2020 (Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2021)
Code Baby – Third Point Press, November 2020 (Selected for Best Microfiction 2021)
It’s hard to decide without knowing the future – Atticus Review, October 2020 (Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2021)
They say if you acknowledge a problem, it becomes real – Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, October 2020
The Other Side – Pidgeonholes, October 2020 (Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2021)
Cracked – Jellyfish Review, October 2020
The Stone Girl – Cheap Pop, October 2020 (Selected for Best Small Fictions 2021, Nominated for 2021 Pushcart Prize)
Hospitalized – Peach Mag, September 2020
Centralized Task Scheduling – HAD (Hobart After Dark), September 2020
Bad Qi – Litro, August 2020
Like a bowling ball without the holes – The West Review, August 2020
Harvest Season – Parentheses Journal, June 2020 (Nominated for Best of the Net)
Paper Clips Are Not Biodegradable – Gone Lawn, June 2020
Dispatch from a Pandemic: Cupertino, California – Another Chicago Magazine, June 2020
Eating Disorders as an Algorithms Problem Set – Crab Fat Magazine, May 2020 (Finalist in Best of the Net 2020)
Double Flash – Atlas & Alice, April 2020 (Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2021)
Diets – Okay Donkey, April 2020
How do I get unlost on my own – Jellyfish Review, March 2020 (Nominated for Best Microfiction 2021)
The Genie Asks For Too Much – Columbia Journal, March 2020 (Honorable mention in Womxn’s History Month Special Issue)
The People Without Faces – Barren Magazine, March 2020 (Longlisted in the 2021 Wigleaf top 50)
The Clockmaker – X-R-A-Y Magazine, February 2020
To the inhabitant of the attic – Timber Journal, February 2020
My Response – Porridge Magazine, January 2020
2019
Sound is a Vibration – MoonPark Review, December 2019
Generic Brand – Tiny Molecules, December 2019
An Uninspired Kidnapping – The Disappointed Housewife, December 2019 (Nominated for 2020 Sonder Press The Best Small Fictions)
Paper People – Scoundrel Time, November 2019
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