fiction

Stag 

Heartbroken and drifting through a dying mill town, a young man embarks on a desperate journey to reclaim lost love and escape the gravity of home.

—Winner, 2026 Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction

—Gulf Coast, Vol. 38, Issue 3

Red, Red Fox

At a Christmas gathering in rural North Carolina, family legend, inherited history, and a night of violence expose the uneasy bonds linking the living and the dead.

– The Greensboro Review, Issue 120

Daddy Was a Southerner

During a pilgrimage to Gettysburg, a father struggles to pass on the history, pride, and contradictions of his people to his daughter.

—The Main Street Rag, Volume 31, Number 3

Jornada del Muerto

Violence, delirium, and ancient visions haunt an alcoholic drifter who escapes a near-lynching into the New Mexico desert. 

—The Write Launch Literary Magazine, Issue 86 

—Running Wild Press, 27 Stories: An LA Wildfire Anthology

Privilege

A young tech entrepreneur inherits a family secret that exposes the absurdities of privilege, paternalism, and good intentions.

—The New English Review, Issue 242

Wayfaring Strangers

On the plains of West Texas, a desperately homesick woman struggles to survive the privations of a natural world falling into chaos.

—Finalist, 2020 Spencer A. Parker Memorial Award for Fiction

—86 Logic, Issue 2

—Running Wild Press, Anthology of Stories, Volume 5