Stories
“Burn Brightly and Rise”
Nimrod International Journal (Fall/Winter, 2020)
The passengers had learned the chief tenet of their predicament early on: There was no taking back what had been lost. The farther they walked from the plane, the epicenter of whatever had occurred, the more memories they lost…
“Hiding”
Moss (Volume Five, 2020)
The kids decide to hide from their Papa. It’s an old game, and they haven’t played it in a long time. After the oldest girl gives the signal, five little bodies scatter into different parts of the house…
apt (2018)
Roberto had to bury the dog before sunrise. He was not a big talker, so he liked the quiet work: the feel of the wooden handle of the shovel pressed against his callused hand as he dug…
The Pinch Journal (Volume 37, Issue 2, 2017)
I could not tell you beforehand what it would’ve been like to fall in love with a dead girl, and now that I have, I still cannot tell you except to say that it happened almost instantaneously…
“How Many Ways Can You Die For Love?”
The James Franco Review (Issue 1, 2015)
In the span of a lunch hour, Dick became a multi-millionaire, which is to say, he became rich enough to ask out the woman who was pining for another man a floor below him…
The Acentos Review (November, 2012)
She meets him while selling empanadas during packing season that summer. He says something like gracias mi linda, and she smiles and throws her hair over her shoulder, pretending that many boys call her beautiful, and that they also wink at her while they eat her empanadas…