Stories
Girl Talk
Alaska Quarterly Review (forthcoming)
Young Ladies
Southern Humanities Review (forthcoming)
Ghost Story
New England Review (forthcoming)
The Field
Mississippi Review (52.3 2025)
Awards: Chosen for THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY & SUSPENSE 2026
Voluntary
Colorado Review (52.1 Spring 2025)
The Invisible Lady
American Short Fiction (79 Spring 2024)
Wild Creatures
Literary Matters (16.1)
Awards: Winner of the Meringoff Award in Fiction
Woman of the House
Story (Issue 17, Summer 2023)
Awards: Winner of the Story Foundation Prize
Theories of an Ancient Drawing Carved into a Hillside
Copper Nickel (No. 37, Fall 2023)
Awards: Copper Nickel Editors Prize
The Sunshine Family
Southern Indiana Review (Spring 2023)
La Mesa
Arts & Letters (Spring 2022)
The Participants
Gulf Coast (Summer/Fall 2022)
Divided House
The Hopkins Review (Winter 2022)
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)
Awards: Winner of the Gail B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction
Witnesses
Ninth Letter (Vol. 17.1 (Spring/Summer 2020))
Included in: 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 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 Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Cornfield, Cornfield, Cornfield
Wigleaf (02/15/19)
Included in: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Sharon by the Seashore
Ploughshares (Winter 2018-2019)
Included in: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Storage and Retrieval
Oxford American (Summer 2018)
Included in: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Hi Ho Cherry-O
Witness Magazine (Spring 2018)
Awards: Selected for Pushcart Prize XLIV
Included in: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Anthologized in: Pushcart Prize XLIV (2020)
In the Museum of Tense Moments
The Greensboro Review (Fall 2017)
Included in: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Basic Commands
Southern Humanities Review (51.1 2017)
Included in: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
Atlantis
Indiana Review (39.1 Summer 2017)
The Spectrum of Wonders
Salamander (#44 Spring/Summer 2017)
October
COG (Winter 2016)
Starry Night
The Gettysburg Review (Spring 2016)
Included in: The Age of Discovery and Other Stories
The Women of Burma
Slice Magazine (Fall 2015/Winter 2016)
Big Wings
The Bellingham Review (Spring 2015)
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)
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: Scavengers: Stories
Anthologized in: Surreal South '13
Da Do Ron Ron
Quarter After Eight - a journal of experimental writing (Vol. 18, 2012)
Awards: Winner of Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Prize
The Bicycle
Quarter After Eight - a journal of experimental writing (Vol. 18, 2012)
Secrets of Old Time Science Experiments
Cold Mountain Review (Spring 2012)
Included in: Scavengers: Stories
The Afterlife
The Bellingham Review (Spring 2012)
Awards: Runner Up, 2011 Tobias Wolff Fiction Prize
Included in: Scavengers: Stories
Stones
Alaska Quarterly Review (Fall/Winter 2011)
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: Strange Weather: Stories
Anthologized in: Surreal South '09
Midnight, Licorice, Shadow
Crazyhorse (Fall 2008)
Awards: Listed as a Distinguished Mystery Story of 2008 in The Best American Mystery Stories 2009; Crazyhorse 50th Anniversary Issue (Fall 2010)
Included in: Strange Weather: Stories
Anthologized in: Crazyhorse 50th Anniversary Issue
The Scenic Route
Gulf Coast (Summer/Fall 2007)
Good Listener
Black Warrior Review (Winter 2005)
Included in: Scavengers: Stories
Anthologized in: 24 Bar Blues
The Good News
Carolina Quarterly (Winter 2005)
Vines
Fugue (Winter 2003-04)
Awards: Special Mention in 2005 Pushcart Anthology
Included in: Strange Weather: Stories
Lost
Ascent (Spring 2003)
How to Keep Busy While Your Fiancé Climbs Mount Everest
Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts (May 2003)
About the Artist
Alaska Quarterly Review (Spring/Summer 2003)
For a Living
Southern Review (Summer 2000)
Close Enough
Witness (1998)
Awards: Special Mention in 2000 Pushcart Anthology
Included in: A Gram of Mars: Stories
Til Death Us Do Part
Crescent Review (Summer 1995)
Awards: O. Henry Award 1996
Included in: A Gram of Mars: Stories
Anthologized in: Prize Stories 1996: The O. Henry Awards