Fiction

 
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The King of Several Countries | New Square

I have some new fiction in the latest issue of New Square — a rad new lit mag based out of Hartford & Dublin. It’s only available in print for now, but here’s page one. You may find a copy of the issue linked below:

 
 

 
 

Why I’ll Never Buy Another Peacock | Fiction Southeast

The Solution Center was one of those places that sold everything–though solutions were its specialty. The checkout line went single file out the center, past the parking lot, past the highway. Everyone had questions like: how to sell weed or how to quit your job or how to rob a bank or how to get pregnant with twins or how to walk in high heels or how to swim or how to zest a lemon or how to write a love song or how to silence a shotgun or how to amputate an arm or how to dance in the club or how to give a cat a pill. I was in line to ask how to tie a tie.

 
 

State Appointed Committee To Oversee The Obituary of Planet Earth and Its Inhabitants and Records | Monkeybicycle

Bursts of light pulsed in the distance from the conference room window because the sky was a back and forth of hollow-points and hell cannons and car keys and lit cigarettes and body language and crucifix and avocado pits and feral cats and hot coffee and Christmas trees and money shots and gut reactions and themselves—they were throwing themselves, too.