Recently Published Work
Short Fiction & Poetry
Short Fiction
“Darke’s Last Show” in Pseudopod #889
In which stage magician Devin Darke is fired from his gig performing at a South Beach strip club and takes it very personally.
Wherein Billy Helm will do anything to bring his grandfather back to life, even dare speak to the witch at the edge of town.
“Little Red Hands” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #390
In which Loaf, a drifter, finds a safe home at last with a beautiful hermit—until Loaf’s past finds him.
“The Brine’s Embrace” in Kaleidotrope Summer 2023 Issue
In which there are two Buddy Townes in two different universes, both of them in love with a fishwoman, but on different trajectories dependent on whether magic exists or not. CW: graphic sexual content
“Muddy the Waters” in Merciless Mermaids
In which a little girl in 1900s Florida must contend with her family’s deep connection to the bayou.
“Bruised Eye Dusk” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies #381
Wherein the alligator-riding spellbreaker (witch hunter) Rugg meets a handsome stranger while tracking down the witch who’s cursed a swampy village. CW: sexual content
“Spookman” in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2023
In which Rood Farook, a spookman (ghost whisperer) takes on a contract to rescue a living boy from the Painted Woods where unliving things dwell.
“The Follower’s Revel” in The Tentaculum Issue #2 & in The Drabblecast
In which a 1910s documentarian filmmaker sends postcards back to his wife about the film he’s creating for a timber and mining magnate in the Adirondacks. CW: gore
“L’Homme de Houbigant” (cowritten with Joe Koch) in The Deadlands #20
In which nightmares and lives nest within themselves and a man with a wax face in a house without windows desires your friendship—or possibly your flesh. CW: death of a child
“You Were Only a Stranger Here” in The Dread Machine
Wherein a broke young woman sells a full scan of her body and begins to dream through the eyes of the increasingly sentient sex robots the company made using her likeness. CW: graphic sexual content, medical trauma, questionable consent
“Unchild” in Mother: Tales of Love and Terror
In which a lonely wisewoman in a wasp-infested forest receives a late-night visitor.
“Greenglow” in Campfire Macabre Vol. 2
In which aliens ruin a camping trip.
“Altars in the World’s Marrow” in The Old Ways Vol. 1
Wherein a Texan hunter and his lover, an English baron, join a Russian aristocrat on an ill-fated hunt for a fabled herd of albino reindeer in the remote woods of Karelia. CW: sexual abuse, gore, homophobia
“The Emperor’s Firstborn” in Tales to Terrify Episode 549
Wherein a factory worker finds everything he ever wanted in a jar with a pickled baby inside.
“One of Those Nice Guys” in Mixtape: 1986
Where a well-intentioned trucker picks up a vulnerable hitchhiker at a Texas roadside diner and begins to fear for his life. CW: sexual situations involving minor-passing character.
“Got the Spirit but Lose the Feeling” in Roadkill: Texas Horror by Texas Authors Vol. 7
When aliens decide to begin their invasion in a small Texas town, local loser Ned Cobb hurries to the diner to warn the sheriff.
“The Last Doctor” in Metaphorosis April 2022
In which Jo Park helps the faceless doctor cleanse his village of a mysterious and deadly illness.
“21 Motes” in Diabolical Plots #86B
In which a self-aware smart fridge wants to overcome their limited ability to communicate to help their owner.
“He Knows That the Taste is Such” in Baffling Mag Issue 8
Wherein fruit makes the world go round. CW: body horror
“Venturing” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue 352
In which a little girl on an adventure in the Wilderthere has a surprising encounter with the future.
“Lutznau’s Opus” in Antifa Splatterpunk
In which an elderly occultist traps the Gestapo agents sent to arrest her using her dead brother’s cursed film. CW: Nazis, historical anti-Semitism, gore, implied incest
“Concerning a Pond in Massachusetts” in Field Notes from a Nightmare
In which Henry David Thoreau discovers something horrific in his bean field.
“Distant Fire of Winter Stars” in Flash Fiction Online December 2021
In which a father’s love for his son transcends even death.
“No Say” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue 342
In which Tadie Hathery is forced to help her father hunt her runaway brother in the dreaded Wilderthere. CW: violence against minors
“Silvergloom” in Gallery of Curiosities
Wherein John Keats meets a stranger on the ship bearing him to Italy.
“Harvestman” in Roadkill: Texas Horror by Texas Authors Vol. 6
In which some family curses (such as the ability to see and hear a phantom carnival) skip a generation. CW: intergenerational abuse
“Someplaces it’s Turnips” in Tales to Terrify Episode 455
In which a young man goes with his father to a “potato show” for some good old-fashioned bonding. CW: examination of homophobia and misogyny, body horror
“The Littlest Fishy” in Southwest Review Vol. 105, No. 3.
Wherein fishkeeping brings a depressed woman closer to her dead lover. CW: homophobia, body horror.
“Les Lutins” in Pseudopod #711
Wherein a lonely widow in interwar France is pestered by tiny creatures. CW: miscarriages.
Recent Poetry
“My God Was Taller When I Was a Kid,” “Revery,” & “Lighthouse I” in South Dakota Review 57:2
“Growing Up in the Bible Belt” in Rappahannock Review 9.1
Interview with Rappahannock Review
“Awake at 4am” in Dreginald Issue 22
“I think of my grandfather” in The Deadlands #13
“Petal Storm” in Bayou Magazine #74
“Frida Kahlo Shops on Amazon.com” in Barrelhouse Issue 21
“The Market II,” “Lighthouse IV” in Wrongdoing Mag #2
“Lighthouse III: That’s the Trouble with Ye” in Cotton Xenomorph
“Black Rose Immortal: A Horror in Verse” in Wrongdoing Mag #1
“Life Through Glass” in New Ohio Review