FICTION PUBLICATIONS
“The Bottom of Things”
Kenyon Review 45.1, Summer 2023
“Your sister asked me to write on your memorial wall, but I couldn’t; this was what I wanted to write.…”
“Sexual Tension”
“Residencies are the best and worst when they cut you off from Internet…”
“A Lesson”
“She’s tuning her guitar so she first recognizes you by sound, not sight….”
“The Perfect Length”
“I’m in a low chair in Eugenia Fitz’s office after workshop, wondering if I’m about to get kicked out of school…”
“Sentences”
“I am in the corridor walking toward the writer’s office. I am taking his class because someone told me he is famous…”
“An Anecdote”
“Two writers walk into a bar. Late afternoon. New York. Lower East Side.…”
“The Best Man”
“You weren’t kidding; this wedding really is in the middle of nowhere…”
“Crosscurrents”
Bellevue Literary Review 43, Fall 2022
“Whenever you don’t want to be who you are, you call yourself Margaret Jefferson. And that’s who you are now, or who you are when you’re not yourself…”
“The Kindness Thief”
The Boston Review, Winter 2022
“‘Medicine is 1 percent science, 99 percent bedside manner,’ Dr. Emma Larson-Donovan begins at the podium after she is introduced…'”
“Anonymous Story”
in the anthology Anonymous Sex,
edited by Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Tan