“It’s All Make Believe, Isn’t It?”
Forthcoming March 2027 at Moon City Review
“House Quilting”
Forthcoming July 27, 2026 at Reckon Review
“The Museum of What Was Left Behind”
Bending Genres
June 9, 2026
“Ghosts in the Rain”
Winner, CRAFT 2025 Flash Prose Prize
CRAFT Literary
April 10, 2026
“Everywhere for Answers”
Ghost Parachute
October 1, 2025
Selected for a Ghost Parachute anthology
“Mama Wanted”
trampset
September 26, 2025
“Naked Babies”
Nominated for Best Microfiction 2026
Flash the Court
August 29, 2025
“Polar Opposites”
Nominated for Pushcart Prize
South Florida Poetry Journal
Flash #38
August 2025
“A Perfect Pair”
Nominated for Best Microfiction 2026
Fractured Lit
June 16, 2025
“Small, Ambiguous Moments”
HAD
June 7, 2025
Selected for The Wigleaf Top 50 2026
“Come On Down!”
Flash Frog
June 2, 2025
“Wolf”
Winner New Ohio Review 2022 Fiction Contest
Issue 32, March 2023
“Still Me”
Healing Visions: An Anthology of Micro Prose and Fine Art Photography
Matter Press
Amazon
February 2023
“Hello?”
Jellyfish Review
November 4, 2022
“In the Shape of a Small Bird”
Miramichi Flash: A Column of The Miramichi Reader
August 26, 2022
Selected for The Wigleaf Top 50 2023

“The Dar-Ron Motel”
Okay Donkey Magazine
August 19, 2022
Interview about writing “The Dar-Ron Motel” at Eric Scot Tryon’s FLASH on the FIVE
September 5, 2022
“FLASH on the FIVE”

“Nougatine”
The Cincinnati Review
July 2022, Issue 19.1

“Giving Up on the Professor”
Mom Egg Review
June 15, 2020

“Empty House”
Kenyon Review Online
March/April 2020

“Boy Things”
New Flash Fiction Review
November 16, 2019

“Walruses on a Beach”
New Flash Fiction Review
March 10, 2019

“Kangaroo Baby”
Atticus Review
February 5, 2019

“My Sister Was Eaten by an Alligator”
Indiana Review
Issue 41.1 Summer 2019
“Thimble People”
Wigleaf
September 3, 2017
Dear Wigleaf Postcard
September 3, 2017

“A Few Goats”
Jellyfish Review
August 21, 2017
“99 Cent Dreams”
Dovetail
Spring 2017

“Boy in a Boat”
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
June 13, 2016
Nominated for Pushcart Prize

“A Dog So Mean”
Mid-American Review
Issue 36.2 May 2016
“In The Shape of a Small Bird”
Fiction Southeast
Best Small Fictions 2017 Finalist
September 4, 2016
The Story Behind the Story
Fiction Southeast
September 11, 2016
“Why I Write”
Fiction Southeast
September 8, 2016

“A Marriage”
South Dakota Review
Volume 52, No. 2
February 2016
“The Goldfish”
Post Road
April 1, 2016
Nominated for Pushcart Prize
“Bright and Bleached”
Glimmer Train
Issue 96
April 2016
First Place, Short Story Award for New Writers November 2014

“I Don’t Want Safe”: An Interview with Julia Strayer
September 7-13, 2015 SmokeLong Quarterly Guest Reader
“In Search of Art”
Glimmer Train Bulletin
February 1, 2015

“Let’s Say”
SmokeLong Quarterly
December 15, 2014
Selected for The Best Small Fictions 2015
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Smoking with Julia Strayer, an interview
SmokeLong Quarterly
December 15, 2014