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SHORT STORIES


​FORTHCOMING

"End Grain"
The Iowa Review
​Forthcoming - Winter 2017/2018

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"Ron"
Tin House
Forthcoming - Spring 2018 "Candy" Issue


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"Night Circus"
PANK
December, 2016
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YOUR EX-LOVER HAS BUILT a circus outside your window.

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"Squirrel, Leopard, Goat"
Tin House, The Open Bar 
August, 2015

IN MY SISTER'S TAXONOMY, our father is a squirrel. She’s eight, I’m five, and we both agree on this, although if we didn’t, she’d have the final word.

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​"How to Survive on Land"
​New Ohio Review
September, 2016
2016 Ploughshares' Emerging Writer's Contest Honorable Mention

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY MOTHER, a mermaid: For years, despite her handicaps, she embraced land life in Okanogan, Washington—the drizzly winters and sun-soaked summers—with a steadfastness both impressive and exhausting. She read us stories with the ardor of a human mother; bagged our lunches; brushed our hair. 

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​"The Forgiveness Machine"
F(r)iction
December 2016​

THE FORGIVENESS MACHINE ARRIVES in a box with bubble wrap. It’s small, sleek, and Pam sets it on the table. She’s already written each item she’ll forgive on blank two by four inch flash cards, in black ink, as stated in the directions, and she stands admiring the machine that will change her life, tracing her fingers over its lunar contours.

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