Fiction
My short fiction has appeared in Barzakh Magazine, The Headlight Review, Ginosko Literary Journal, Please See Me, Indiana Voice Journal, and Pilcrow & Dagger.
"The Story of a Story"
Barzakh Magazine
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A story with a meta structure that makes readers question how and why they read fiction, by presenting and commenting on a character who leads a double-life behind his wife's back.
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"Dial-a-Bird"
The Headlight Review
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Owls run a cleaning service staffed by various bird species, but its operations leave something to be desired when Billy the parrot calls to request their services.
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"The Central String"
Ginosko Literary Journal, pp. 33-37
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A man cannot appreciate his parents' love until life experience changes his perspective, so that he understands love is the central string to which everything around it resonates.
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Please See Me
A mental patient is obsessed with his ever-impending discharge from a state hospital to a step-down facility in Sylmar, but things do not go entirely as he expected when he makes it there.
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Indiana Voice Journal
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A brief meditation on dying involving a yoga teacher.
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"Grandfather's Gift"
Pilcrow & Dagger
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A short story about the extremes it sometimes takes for us to appreciate the gifts we have.