Category: publications

  • Stuff in the queue.

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    Waiting for these pieces to show their ugly faces in early 2025: Magazine1: Saw Palm, a poem about a field of Saw Palmetto and the creatures that lurk within, featuring experimental imagery and vernacular that only a Sarasota-based magazine could understand. Illustrated Worlds Magazine: A reprint of The Scavenger. Or, technically, a print? The Scavenger…

  • JMWW Journal: Copperfield

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    Copperfield: An elderly woman in an oppressive small town has “let herself go.” Stopped gardening. Stopped bathing. Dyed all her clothes black. Has given up on humanity until a chance encounter with fourteen year-old Melody; a kindred spirit who’s determined to find herself…by getting lost. Published October 2024 by JMWW Journal. I am really proud…

  • Illustrated Worlds: The Scavenger

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    The Scavenger, first dramatized by Creepy Podcast, has been picked up by Illustrated Worlds Magazine – a carefully curated journal of horror and fantasy. So, if audio isn’t your bag, you’ll be able to read it in their Spring/Summer issue. Oh, and if you like stories about art school serial killers, check out Art School…

  • Ink in Thirds: In Another Life

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    “James lies on the motel bed. Outside, a tinsel rain begins to fall…” In Another Life: A study in mania and its inevitable crash. And also, orange juice. Watch for this little 317-word gem in the Spring/Summer issue of Ink in Thirds. Ink in Thirds is a lusciously curated publication, offering both print and digital…

  • The Avenue Journal: Water Edition: Hot

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    “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.” – Sun Tzu Hot: Displaced. Discredited. Discarded. What happens when everything a girl has worked for is stolen? What happens when she’s taken all she can take? Hot, a queer revenge fantasy set on the West Central Florida island…

  • Celebrating two accomplishments with a cruller for breakfast.

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    Last night I completed the final edit of my latest short story, To Bethany, with Teeth. When my husband asked me what it was about, my response was, “oh, you know, Voodoo, teeth, domestic violence.” I was deep in editing mode and didn’t quite realize what I had said until he laughed. What a synopsis…

  • 101 Words: Dinner

    101 Words: Dinner

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    Dinner: A small (101 words) glimpse into domestic detachment and regret. Published September 2024 in 101 Words. Direct link here. P.S. Illustration above, entitled “Chaos Bowl,” by me.

  • Creepy Podcast: The Scavenger

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    The Scavenger: A disaffected art school dropout returns to their impoverished rural homestead. But nothing good comes from a life of scrounging for scrap metal and ruminating on everything that has failed you. One must find new hobbies. Dramatized in August 2024 on Creepy Podcast. Narrated by Michelle Kain. Direct link to the audio (Patreon…

  • Heavy Feather Review: Everything Got Worse (the story.)

    Heavy Feather Review: Everything Got Worse (the story.)

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    Everything Got Worse: a 1990s-era supernatural tale of rural sprawl and eco-displacement told from the perspective of a kid who got eaten by a gator and his mother who will never find out why he died. Published September 2024 in Heavy Feather Review’s Haunted Passages collection. Direct link to the story. Aaaaaaaaand a taste: The…