Category: publications

  • The Forge: Things You Lose

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    “It made sense why no one called them Cosby sweaters anymore. Who wants to embody the style of an iconic rapist? Likewise, they are aviators, not Unabomber glasses, they are white tanks not wife beaters. Signifiers evolve, the past is rebranded. I knew all this and I thought it was good and still I fucked…

  • Louisiana Literature: We Will Find Each Other Again

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    “Being from a place could make a person reckless.” Fleeing an abusive relationship, Ellie Camphor navigates exhaustion and loneliness while traveling through rural Florida. Drifting between gas stations, parks, and rest stops, she fights to cling to fragments of self in a world that’s becoming increasingly surreal. We Will Find Each Other Again is A…

  • Star*Line: Troy Sunk in Violet

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    Pick up Star*Line 49.2, home planet to my poem “Troy Sunk in Violet,” an homage to Yeats, Hole, Space and Sadness. Founded in the year of my birth (1978), Star*Line is the official publication of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association.  It is a literary venue for speculative (including science-fiction, fantasy, and horror) poets and…

  • Inkd Publications: Cthulhu Dreams: That Sinking Feeling

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    Cthulhu Dreams: A short story anthology of horror influenced by or reflective of Lovecraftian themes. For sale at Barnes and Noble online. My contribution, “That Sinking Feeling,” is a quasi-memoir of the time I lived in a commercial loft space built by family members. The place was horrific, an abandoned call center, and we did…

  • Fictive Dream: The Almost

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    The Almost: a school bus driver passes the early morning hours in rural Florida reading her favorite romance novel while idling in her bus before the kids show up. As the sensual language of the book, “Heather’s Rake,” provides her with an escape from the mundane, she finds comfort in the tension and anticipation of…

  • Slipstream Press: The Gun Looks Wrong

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    “The Gun Looks Wrong” – a poem about a game of Duck Hunt gone, well, Slipstream, is featured in the 45th Annual issue (“Strange Days” theme) of Slipstream magazine. Founded in 1980, Slipstream features the work of both new and established writers. Charles Bukowski, Gerald Locklin, Wanda Coleman, Lyn Lifshin, David Chorlton, Jim Daniels, Ron…

  • Moonday Mag: Mirror Image

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    In “Mirror Image”, forces both supernatural and elemental conspire to silence an author.

  • The Scavenger

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    “I watched a wake of turkey vultures slurp up bits of cow…” The Scavenger, a rural Florida gothic serial killer tale, first dramatized by Creepy Podcast and later picked up by Illustrated Worlds Magazine – is reprinted below. (First, though, this photo…taken from my grandparent’s 40 acre homestead in Arcadia, FL, where this story is set. Crazy place!)…

  • Green Hills Literary Lantern: Ma’Donna

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    The Harborside Mobil Stop-n-Go shines its beacon, its big old sign with all the gas prices, the ones that go back and forth a few cents every day for reasons I’ll never know, way up high for the boats to see. After closing, all the lights in and around the store go out except for…

  • BULL: Spiral

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    She spits through lips painted green. She means disrespect but I see DNA. In spit is a stamp that can clone or convict you. I suppose that an artist’s work, to its maker, does both. I can understand the desire for distance.… “Spiral” – a story about bodies, minds, and masks. About devotion and disillusionment.…