Short Stories (unless noted otherwise)
2023
“A Change of Tune” Bending Genres (Issue 36) [Online];
“Submerged”The Loch Raven Review (Vol.19) [Online];
“City of Angels” (Creative Non-Fiction) On the High Literary Journal [Online];
“The Art of Getting Lost (and Finding the Way Back)” (Poem) Stickman Review [Online];
“Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll” Penmen Review [Online];
“Baptism by Fire” Barzakh Magazine (Summer 2023) [Online];
“An Open Base” Sheepshead Review (Spring 2023) [Print];
“Needing a Fix” (Prose poem) Book of Matches (Issue 8) [PDF];
“Little Crocodile Tears” Louisiana Literature (Vol 40., no. 1) [Print];
“Every Dog Has His Day” Corvus Review (Fall/Winter 2022/2023) [PDF]
2015
“Something Akin to Kindness” 2 Bridges Review (Winter 2015) [Print];
“Little Girl Lost” Dirty Chai (Winter 2015) [Online]
2014
“Tiny’s Fifteen Minutes” Literary Orphans (Issue 11, 2014) [Online]
2013
“One Saturday in July” Clare Literary Journal (Volume 14, Summer 2013) [Online];
“Sand Trapped” Home of the Brave: Somewhere in the Sand (Press 53 Anthology) [Print] ;
“Making Room for Uncle Arnie” WhiskeyPaper (May 2013) [Online] ;
“Nightwatch” Oblong Magazine (Issue 2, 2013) [Print];
“The Ringer” Pithead Chapel (February 2013, Volume 2: Issue 2) [Online];
“Bethany’s Blessing” Folitate Oak (February 2013) [Online];
“The Secret of Sparkling Valley” Menacing Hedge (Winter 2013) [Online]
2012
“Deer, Oh Dear!” Penduline (Issue 6, September 2012) [Online];
“Your Future in Teaching” Defenestration Magazine (August 29, 2012) [Online];
“So Lucky” First Stop Fiction (August 9, 2012) [Online];
“Impressionable” Bluestem Magazine (June 2012) [Online];
“When We Were Young (and Dumb)” The MacGuffin (Winter 2012) [Print];
“Not Always Clean” Underground Voices (January 2012) [Online]
2011
“Temp on Arrival” The Legendary (October 2011, Issue 32) [Online];
“Filthy Lucre” Slush Pile (Issue Eleven) [Online];
“Y.O. Ming” RED OCHRE LiT (July 2011) [Online];
“Welcome to the Real World” The Montreal Review (May 2011) [Online];
“Separate Negotiations” Stymie Magazine (Spring/Summer 2011) [PDF];
“Out the Back Door” (with Kimy Martinez) BluePrintReview (Issue 27, 2011) [Online];
“The Adobe Ascension Drop-by” Barrier Islands Review (Issue 7) [PDF];
“Previously Unquestioned” Foliate Oak (March 2011) [Online];
“More Moxie Than Ashley” Monkeybicycle (January 2011) [Online];
“Mindless Spectacle” ACREAGE (Winter 2011) [Online];
“Who Wore White and Who Wore Blue” Bartleby Snopes (January 2011) [Online]
2010
“Vantage Point” Fiction International (2010, Issue 43) [Print];
“Bear Country Discomfort” Blue Lake Review (December 2010) [Online];
“What We Do Until Then” Caper Literary Journal (November 2010) [Online];
“Between Red Rock and a Place in Peru” Grey Sparrow Journal (Fall 2010, Issue 4) [Print/Online];
“Balance” The Raleigh Review (Issue 1, 2010) [Print];
“Rummaging” The Linnet’s Wings (Summer, 2010) [Online];
“From the Ruins” Necessary Fiction (June, 2010) [Online];
“Needed Advice” Metazen (May 31, 2010) [Online];
“Incinerate” decomP (May, 2010) [Online];
“Special Performance” Foundling Review (March 2010, Special Issue) [Online];
“Getting Even in Room 15” Writers’ Bloc (Rutgers) (Issue 9, March 2010) [Online];
“Beyond the Sound” Clearfield Review (Issue 4, 2010) [Online];
“Restricted Development Area” BluePrintReview (Issue 23, January 2010) [Online]
2009
“Friendly and Accommodating, He Wore Many Hats” The Legendary (December 20, 2009) [Online];
“Pot Stickers To-Go” Monkeybicycle (December 2009) [Online];
“Livin a Little” Paradigm (Issue 3, 2009) [Print Anthology];
“She Loved Them Both, In All Honesty” Underground Voices (December 2009) [Online];
“At the Foot of Golden Hill” Journal of Truth and Consequence (Winter Issue 2009) [Online];
“Around South Pass City” The Battered Suitcase (December 2009) [Online];
“Sand Trapped” PANK (November 2009) [Online];
“Stoney Sanders Application…” Nexus (Fall 2009) [Online];
“Genevieve” Amarillo Bay (November 2009) [Online];
“A Little Matter of Life and Death” 13th Warrior Review (2009, Volume 7, Issue 13) [Online];
“A Nic of Time” Foliate Oak (September, 2009) [Online];
“Dylan Got a New Job” Nanoism (August 14, 2009) [Online];
“What He Was” Mad Swirl (August 3, 2009) [Online];
“Hairpin” Foundling Review (July 2009, Issue 3) [Online];
“Green Lake” Slush Pile (Issue 3, 2009) [Online];
“Few Surprises in Hit Man Draft” Big Pulp (July 2009) [Online];
“World’s a Stage” Eclectica (Volume 13, No. 3; July/August 2009) [Online];
“Different Angles” Word Slaw (June 2009) [Online];
“Next Available Flight” Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (Summer 2009) [Online];
“Pants on Fire” Gander Press Review (Spring/Summer 2009) [Print];
“Gutter Ball” The Binnacle (Spring 2009) [Print];
“Still in Kansas” Compass Rose (Spring 2009, Volume IX) [Print];
“Rock of Ages” Shaking Like a Mountain (Spring 2009) [Online];
“Dreaming” BluePrintReview (April 2009) [Online];
“Goofy’s Wonderful World of Disney” The Northville Review (April 2009) [Online];
“Esther Severeid’s Unpaid Phone Bill” Dogmatika (April 2009) [Online];
“Thrill Ride.” ken*again (Spring 2009) [Online];
“Cheval Noir” Word Riot (March 2009) [Online];
“Judgment Gone Up in Smoke” The Externalist (February 2009) [Online];
“Livin’ a Little” Paradigm (Winter 2009, The Jackson Issue) [Online];
“Novel on a Napkin” Six Sentences (January 2009) [Online]
2008
“Ernestine’s Cafe: A Newcomer’s Review” The Oddville Press (December 2008) [PDF];
“Andi’s Animal Kingdom” Bartleby Snopes (December 2008) [Online];
“America’s Least Wanted” decomP (October 2008) [Online];
“Shystered” Up the Staircase (October 2008) [Online];
“Parental Coddling of a Young Psychopath” Underground Voices (July, 2008) [Online];
“Fallen Soldier” Dark Sky Magazine (Issue 7:9, 2008) [Online];
“Climbing” Long Story Short (May, 2008) [Online];
“Anything but Fifteen Percent” Watchword (Issue 10, 2008) [Print];
“Seaworthy” Scrivener Creative Review (Issue 33, 2008) [Print];
“Arnold and Sandy” Houston Literary Review (March, 2008) [Online];
“Author Intrusion” Sub-Lit (Volume 1, #3, 2008) [Online]
2007
“Sports Fanaticism: A Case Study” Foliate Oak (December, 2007) [Online];
“Animal Crack” Fiction International (Issue 40, 2007) [Print];
“Smokey’s Mountain” Conte: A Journal of Narrative Fiction (Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2007) [Online]
2006
“When the Saints Go Marching Out” Talking River Review (2006) [Print];
“The Final Note” Bryant Literary Review (Volume 7, 2006) [Print]
As Editor
Editor of online journal, WIPs: Works (of Fiction) in Progress (2012-2015);
Fiction editor of online art and literature magazine, LITnIMAGE (2008-2012);
Co-editor of EXPERIENCED: Rock Music Tales of Fact and Fiction (Vagabondage Press, 2011)
Assistant editor of SDSU print journal Fiction International (2004-2006)
Awards
Best of the Net nomination (Short Fiction) 2013;
StorySouth’s Million Writer’s Award Nominations (Best Online Short Story) 2007; 2008; 2009; Notable story selection for 2008;
Pushcart Prize Nominations (Short Fiction) 2007; 2008;
Award for Outstanding Achievement in Creative Writing, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA. 2002