Category: publications

  • To Bethany, with teeth.(Reprinted here, read in full.)

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    To Bethany, with teeth. debuted in Luna Station Quarterly earlier this Spring. I am reprinting it here today in full. An odd little morality tale featuring witchcraft gone wrong…gone right. (Painting above, Buried in the Sand, by me.) To Bethany, with teeth. Michael dunks the beaver carcass into a bright blue drum of Strip-All. He…

  • Ink In Thirds: In Another Life

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    In Another Life: A study of mania and its inevitable crash. And also, orange juice. Originally published in the Spring/Summer issue of Ink in Thirds. In Another Life  James lies on the motel bed. Outside, a tinsel rain begins to fall.  He grabs a smoke from the nightstand, lights it, takes a soul-healing drag and closes…

  • BULL: Spiral

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    Spiral: A young art school chick and an aging male nude art model’s friendship snaps and irreparably unwinds. Did they ever really know each other at all? Spoiler alert: NOPE! To be published later this year in BULL. Painting above from the Gnome Alone series, by me.

  • Whale Road Review: Once, We Were Under the Sea

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    Once, We Were Under the Sea, an ode to prehistoric Florida, can be found in the Spring 2025 edition of the prestigious Whale Road Review. The edition in full is inspiringly curated – jewel-like and intoxicating. I recommend reading each piece in order with a warm cup of honeyed tea by your side. Bonus points…

  • The Avenue Journal: The Water Anthology: Hot

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    It was as hot as all the things people like to say things could be as hot as: Hell. Balls. Fuck. Shit. Biscuits. I took off my t-shirt, dipped it in the water and tied it around my head. I was fine with doing so because I was wearing one of my colorful bras and anyone…

  • Magazine1: Saw Palm

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    Find my poem Saw Palm, a portrait of a brutal, quintessential Florida landscape, in the Winter 2025 edition of Sarasota, Florida’s Bookstore1’s publication, Magazine1. Kind of cool to be featured in a magazine in my hometown. An excerpt: Ever seen a sea of saw palm? Eon-deep black hole dark-as-nightgreen, scissor wrong-side-up double-UsWWWWWWWWWWWWWavingat you.Looking like a…

  • Winsom

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    Thought it would be fun to post the first story I’ve ever published. Here ya go. “Winsom.” WINSOM Bradenton, Florida, 1997 Hart’s desk shook. “Hey, my coffee!” Hart sprang from his swivel chair and lifted the mug, wiping its bottom and sides to stay the drips, but the damage was done. He sighed, watching his…

  • Graveside Press Illustrated Poetry Anthology: If…

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    Super honored to announce my poem If… has been selected for inclusion in an Illustrated Poetry Anthology to be published by Graveside Press. Since I cannot seem to do two types of art at once, I most likely will not be attempting to produce and submit the accompanying illustration. If anyone out there would like…

  • elsewhere magazine: The Ghost

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    The Ghost: a historic home’s long-dead owner is not pleased with the renovations. Published December 2024 by elsewhere magazine. This little prose poem was inspired by the buyers of my beloved purple home in Washington State, who promptly painted the interiors “millennial gray” and the outside a drab sage green, but really, it goes out…

  • Slipstream: The Gun Looks Wrong

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    The Gun Looks Wrong: In which a boy regrets playing Duck Hunt. This little retro-Gothic prose poem will be featured in the Fall 2025 issue of Slipstream Magazine.