To the Hairstylist Who Always Knows What’s Best for Me
Published in River and South Review. Read the full piece here.
Moon Womb, Orbiting
Read Moon Womb, Orbiting at Bright Flash Literary Review (Summer 2023).
Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope was published by Flash Flood Journal in celebration of National Flash Fiction Day 2023. You can read it here.
To the woman you were (before you were my mother)
Published by Orange Blossom Review. Read the full piece here.
You can’t belong to the sky
Published by MER. Her lips pressed against each other in a glistening pout when she said it, the melted ChapStick spilling over the top of its plastic cylinder in her chubby-fingered grip. The lid had…
To the bartender who tends to more than just the bar
Published in Door Is A Jar magazine, summer 2023. For Jenn You think no one notices the way you remember everyone’s orders, the Corona (no lime) for the guy with the Zeppelin shirt, the sweet…
Ladies Nights
Published by Eunoia Review. In dive bars we scoot our barstools closer so the other patrons won’t overhear when we whisper about the girls from out of town tiptoeing in their high heels on the…
My child’s teacher pleads for help
First published by Visible Magazine. At 11:03 am, my daughter’s teacher sends an email with the subject line: “Help!” At 10:13 am, police in Nashville had received the first phone call about a shooting at…
One For Your Mother
Published in The Citron Review On Sundays, we clean, my mother and I, while the boys do yard work with our father. Bette Midler lends the soundtrack to our scrubbing; I turn the nozzle on…
Sleep, Luck, and The Hours In Between
Published on mother.ly Other parents like to tell me I’m lucky that my children sleep. That they sleep in their own rooms, in their own beds, with sound machines and night lights and their favorite plush unicorns…