“These stories are heartbreaking, telling the truth about life and death and what it takes to keep going. They… provide a kind of training in what it means to be human.”
— Sarah Stone, author, Hungry Ghost Theater
Stories
Featured Story
Nimrod International Journal: Awards Issue #37
The 2015 Lascaux Review Prize Anthology, Finalist
Literal Latte, Fiction Prize Winner, 2015
Pooled Ink: 2015 Norther Colorado Writers Contest Winners, Editor's Pick
What do you do when your husband is dying and your young daughter just got kicked out of elementary school for casting spells a la Harry Potter? Evelyn knows that goodbye means tears and rage, irritation and irrationality, bargaining and begging… but she learns that there’s room for grace — and a little magic — too.

Artist: Carlene Fullerton
Other Stories
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2021
Extra Innings
Elder Mountain: A Journal of Ozarks Studies [Link]
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2018
Forty-Love OR How to Manage Your Mid-Life Crisis
Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, Finalist, 2018
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2017
The Woman Who Shot Jesse James
Bosque #7, Fiction Prize, Honorable Mention
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2014
Slipknot
Midwestern Gothic, Spring 2014
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2007
Your Mama's a Llama
Literary Mama, April 2007
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2002
Whistling in the Dark
The Sulphur River Literary Review, Fall 2002
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1999
Riding in the Middle
The Green Hills Literary Lantern, Spring 1999