Published Stories
The invisibility one can feel when performing healthy and pretending we’re okay when we’re not.
Photo at left taken by Angela Lewis.
Forthcoming with failbetter.com (May 21, 2026)
“Between the Head and the Heart Lines,” failbetter, May 2026
Sibley notices immediately that Arianne Hebert’s life story is scattered across her palm like a handful of freshly tossed pick-up sticks, she’d be easily misled, easily convinced. There is very little space between her thumb and life line, and the shallow heart line with the circles across it – like someone had pressed two pennies into her palm – indicate this woman has suffered.
“Workplace Injuries,” Novus Literary Magazine, April 2026
After I’d organized the container drawer, a mess of orphaned tops and bottoms, I recommended that Tammy toss all the plastic and replace it with glass. I researched where to buy it and sent her the link. She loved the initiative. That was the problem with their old housekeeper, she’d said. “She did the bare minimum, and even then, it was half-hearted.” I laughed because that’s what my mother had said about me. My modus operandi, as she’d called it, my whole view of the world, my dad jabbed, was a cross between half-assed and half-hearted.
“A Girl Named Janie,” Literary Heist, March 2026
Ever since Bluesy died, it was just Martha and the girl. She didn’t want her anymore, but what to do, what to do. Five months without Bluesy, if the girl disappeared too, maybe the superintendent would ask questions, maybe the girl would cry and kick up a fuss, maybe better to leave well enough alone.
This story was first written in an undergraduate creative writing class. I wanted to explore how one grieves when sadness is forbidden, when loving a complicated father is frowned upon. Grab a digital copy from Blank Spaces magazine.
I love this story so much and am very excited to see it up at The Temz Review. Irreplaceable tells the story of a dad lost in grief, whose idea of a new wife is not exactly what his daughter had in mind for a new mother.
I am excited that this story found a home at Blue Lake Review. PROOF is a story that lived in the car on those long drives home from New Hampshire and now it’s here!
Many of my stories exist in the rift between the real and the imagined, the stress, the hope, the dreams, the fears, the horrors of motherhood, grief, life and love. What’s so Funny? is another reconstruction of fear.
Story appears in The Ex-Puritan. The Deal with Roger, is a story about what it means to be different and to escaping low expectations, self-doubt and an abusive humanoid.
Fleas on the Dog, a literary journal described as a “no frills brown bag in your face thumb your nose online psychotropolis for the literarily insane.” It is the only home for my weird (and violent) ‘what would you do?’ story about racism, The Exception to the Rule.
It was a great honour to have two flash pieces included in the final issue of antilang, a magazine of literary brevity.
Jonesy saw the first row of shiny silver leotards behind the float with the old people tap dancing. Read more.
We sat under a pussy willow tree with the big box of chocolate chip cookies between us, the ones with the cross in the middle. Jesus Cookies. Read more.
My short story, Strife is about anxiety and how trauma is the stealth bomber of mental illness. It was published in Dreamers Creative Writing.
Another fantastic literary space for flash fiction is now archived. Happy my story, Yesterday’s Gone is still alive on Sledgehammer, a lovely UK lit mag.
There is no longer a live link to this piece. A Better Parent is an exploration of what it means to be a good parent when judgment is blurred.
This was a very personal story about how hard it is to love someone. Bruises Don’t Leave Scars appeared in Coastal Shelf in 2021.
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