Stories

Wild Creatures
Literary Matters (forthcoming)

Winner of the Meringoff Award in Fiction
Theories of an Ancient Drawing Carved into a Hillside
Copper Nickel (forthcoming)
The Invisible Lady
American Short Fiction (forthcoming)
Woman of the House
Story (forthcoming)

Winner of the Story Foundation Prize
The Sunshine Family
Southern Indiana Review (Spring 2023)
Orchid Children
The Normal School (April 19, 2023)
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La Mesa
Arts & Letters (Spring 2022)
The Participants
Gulf Coast (Summer/Fall 2022)
Divided House
The Hopkins Review (Winter 2022)
The Swing of Things
Four Way Review (November 15, 2021)
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Sea Ice
The Journal (45.1 (2021))
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Included in the collection: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Interview
Chicago Quarterly Review (Vol. 32 2020)
Kings of Bohemia
Third Coast (Spring/Summer 2020)
A Great Fall
PRISM International (Spring 2020)
I Ate This When I Was a Child
Pleiades (Summer 2020)

Winner of the Gail B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction
Witnesses
Ninth Letter (Vol. 17.1 (Spring/Summer 2020))

Included in the collection: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Please Do Not Go Beyond This Point
North American Review (Spring 2020)
The Age of Discovery
The Southampton Review (Summer/Fall 2019)

Included in the collection: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Devil's Advocate
New Ohio Review (Spring 2019)
Young Susan
Cream City Review (Spring/Summer 2019)

Included in the collection: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Fillies
Washington Square Review (Spring 2019)

Included in the collection: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Cornfield, Cornfield, Cornfield
Wigleaf (02/15/19)
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Included in the collection: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Sharon by the Seashore
Ploughshares (Winter 2018-2019)

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Storage and Retrieval
Oxford American (Summer 2018)
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Star Girl
Cincinnati Review (May 16, 2018)
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Hi Ho Cherry-O
Witness Magazine (Spring 2018)
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Selected for Pushcart Prize XLIV
Included in the collection: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Anthologized in: Pushcart Prize XLIV (2020)
In the Museum of Tense Moments
The Greensboro Review (Fall 2017)

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The Hundred Thousand Mile Party
JuxtaProse (Vol. 17. 2018)
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Perishables
Post Road Magazine (Issue #31)
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Basic Commands
Southern Humanities Review (51.1 2017)

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Atlantis
Indiana Review (39.1 Summer 2017)
Hematite, Apatite
Shenandoah (66.2 Spring 2017)
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The Spectrum of Wonders
Salamander (#44 Spring/Summer 2017)
October
COG (Winter 2016)
The Sitters
Confrontation (Fall 2016)

Included in the collection: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
The Seven Ravens
Blackbird (15.2 Fall 2016)

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The Celebrity
Memorious (Memorious 26)
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Starry Night
The Gettysburg Review (Spring 2016)

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Rise
New England Review (37.2 2016)
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Priscilla
New World Writing (Jan 23, 2016)
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The Women of Burma
Slice Magazine (Fall 2015/Winter 2016)
Cool
One Teen Story (Volume #3 Issue #31, June 2015))

Included in the collection: Scavengers: Stories
Big Wings
The Bellingham Review (Spring 2015)
Hilda
Chattahoochee Review (Fall/Winter 2014)

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The World is Ending
The Burnside Review (Vol. 10, Number 1, 2014)
A Happy Life
North Dakota Review (Volume 80.1 2014)
Owls
The Mid-American Review (Fall 2014)
Search and Rescue
Beloit Fiction Journal (Vol. 27, 2014)
Love Letter to Irresponsibility
The Southern Review (Summer 2014)
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Graceland
The Harlequin (Issue 4)
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Puppet Town
Moon City Review (2013)

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The Guard
Iron Horse Literary Review (Vol. 15.4, Labor Day 2013)
Bay of Angels
Hayden's Ferry Review (Spring/Summer 2013)
The Upside-Down World
Subtropics (Spring/Summer 2013)

Anthologized in: The O. Henry Prize Stories 2015
Scavengers
Indiana Review (Winter 2012)

Included in the collection: Scavengers: Stories
Anthologized in: Surreal South '13
The Bicycle
Quarter After Eight - a journal of experimental writing (Vol. 18, 2012)
Da Do Ron Ron
Quarter After Eight - a journal of experimental writing (Vol. 18, 2012)

Winner of Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Prize
Secrets of Old Time Science Experiments
Cold Mountain Review (Spring 2012)

Included in the collection: Scavengers: Stories
The Afterlife
The Bellingham Review (Spring 2012)

Runner Up, 2011 Tobias Wolff Fiction Prize
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Stones
Alaska Quarterly Review (Fall/Winter 2011)
The Lake
HOBART: The Great Outdoors Issue (Spring/Summer 2010)

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Ivy Green
Passages North (Winter/Spring 2010)

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Dorothy Gale VS. Alice Liddle
Press 53 (The Versus Anthology: Volume 1)

Anthologized in: The Versus Anthology: Volume 1
Anthony
Mid-American Review (Fall 2008)

Included in the collection: Strange Weather: Stories
Anthologized in: Surreal South '09
Midnight, Licorice, Shadow
Crazyhorse (Fall 2008)

Listed as a Distinguished Mystery Story of 2008 in The Best American Mystery Stories 2009; Crazyhorse 50th Anniversary Issue (Fall 2010)
Included in the collection: Strange Weather: Stories
Anthologized in: Crazyhorse 50th Anniversary Issue
Crumbs
Freight Stories (Spring 2008)
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In Case Someone Comes Looking for Me
Gettysburg Review (Autumn 2007)
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The Scenic Route
Gulf Coast (Summer/Fall 2007)
Let Yourself Go
Cincinnati Review (Summer 2007)

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Freeze
failbetter.com (Winter 2006)
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The Good News
Carolina Quarterly (Winter 2005)
Good Listener
Black Warrior Review (Winter 2005)

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Anthologized in: 24 Bar Blues
Grand Canyon
Other Voices (Spring/Summer 2004)

Included in the collection: Strange Weather: Stories
Vines
Fugue (Winter 2003-04)

Special Mention in 2005 Pushcart Anthology
Included in the collection: Strange Weather: Stories
Lost
Ascent (Spring 2003)
About the Artist
Alaska Quarterly Review (Spring/Summer 2003)
How to Keep Busy While Your Fiancé Climbs Mount Everest
Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts (May 2003)
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Trafalgar
Gettysburg Review (Winter 2002)

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Arctic Circus
Threepenny Review (Winter 2001)

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For a Living
Southern Review (Summer 2000)
Close Enough
Witness (1998)

Special Mention in 2000 Pushcart Anthology
Included in the collection: A Gram of Mars: Stories
Poison
The Carolina Quarterly (Winter 1997)

Included in the collection: Strange Weather: Stories
Holding the Fort
TriQuarterly (Winter 1997/98)

Included in the collection: A Gram of Mars: Stories
Parking Lot Ham and Other Acts of God
Press (1997)

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All the Happiness in the World
Folio (Summer 1997)

Included in the collection: A Gram of Mars: Stories
A Gram of Mars
Antietam Review (Spring 1997)

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Til Death Us Do Part
Crescent Review (Summer 1995)

O. Henry Award 1996
Included in the collection: A Gram of Mars: Stories
Anthologized in: Prize Stories 1996: The O. Henry Awards
Fugue
Shenandoah (Spring 1994)

Included in the collection: A Gram of Mars: Stories