SHORT FICTION

Selected More Recent Stories

Clown School,” SAND Online, 2023 (Winner of the Berlin Writing Prize)

“How to Walk on Water,” Love in the Time of Time’s Up, edited by Christine Sneed, Tortoise Books, 2022

Little Free Library,” Story, 2022

Excerpt from “The Only Thing Missing Was the Howling of Wolves,” Mayday, 2021

For Sale: Spacious 2BDR, Great Views, Ornery Ghost,” excerpt from How to Walk on Water, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, 2020

Boys on a Veranda,” excerpt from How to Walk on Water, Literary Hub, 2020

“A Habit of Seeing,” Fifth Wednesday Journal, 2017 (“Other Distinguished Story” in The Best American Short Stories 2018)

“Advice for the Haunted,” VICE Magazine, 2015

“How to Walk on Water,” The Missouri Review, 2015 (Winner of the Jeffrey E Smith Missouri Review Prize in Fiction)

“Drone,” Black Warrior Review, 2015

Selected Earlier Stories

“Mitz’s Theory of Everything Series,” New Stories from the Midwest 2013.

“The Night Between Us,” American Short Fiction, 2013 (Plus, accompanying ASF web feature on vintage postcards and childhood.)

“The Only Thing Missing Was the Howling of Wolves,” Kenyon Review, 2013

“Edith Under the Streetlight,” The Massachusetts Review, 2012

“Mitz’s Theory of Everything Series,” Agni, 2011

“Felina,” Mississippi Review, 2011 (Winner of Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction; “Special Mention” in The Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses.)

“Shoreward,” Witness, 2011.