Published work:"Welcome to the Starlite" (online) Idle Ink (April 2023). Read it here.
"The Storm" (online) Discretionary Love (March 2023). Read it here. "That Time Strom Thurmond Almost Ruined My Family Day" (online) Salvation South (March 2023). Read it here. "The Interstate Cowboy" (online) The Airgonaut (February 2023). Read it here. "Tilly Troublefield is Up to No Good" (online) Roi Faineant (February 2023). Read it here. "Love and the Fall of Barbara Pepper" (online) Bullshit Lit (February 2023). Read it here. "Here is My Resignation on a CVS Receipt" (online) Mid-Level Management Literary Magazine (January 2023). Read it here. "The Ballad of Sugar and Doo" (online) Salvation South (December 2022). Read it here. "Origami" (print and online) Months to Years (December 2022). Read it here. "I Am Shitty Bitty" (online) Potato Soup Journal (November 2022). Read it here. "A Night Out With Big Ricky" (online) Cowboy Jamboree (October 2022). Read it here. "All that Glitters" (online) Final Girl Bulletin Board (October 2022). Read it here. "My Diesel Ghost" (online) Flash Fiction Magazine (September 2022). Read it here. "A Glamorous Life" (online) Reckon Review (September 2022). Read it here. "The Invisible Woman" (online) Bright Flash Literary Review (September 2022). Read it here. "Cherries in the Snow" (online) Gastropoda (August 2022). Read it here. "Pinkie's Bar" (online) 100 Word Project. Read it here. "Restless" (online) Pigeon Review (July 2022). Read it here. "Grief's Watermark" (online) Coalesce Community (June 2022). Read it here. "Paper Dolls" (print and online) Montana Mouthful (Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2022). Read it here. Forthcoming work:
"Becoming Linda" (online) JAKE (June 6, 2023).
“A Therapeutic Lie” (online) National Flash Fiction Day’s Flash Flood (June 24, 2023). "True Southern Weddings and Celebrations" (online) Little Old Lady Comedy (June 2023). "All Women Marry Down and Other Fatherly Advice" (online) The Dead Mule School (July 2023). "Self-Care With Cher" (online) Corvus Review (2023). "Black Walnuts" (print) Door is a Jar (summer 2023). |
Current project:
THE PATH HOME
A Southern family saga, set in the small town of Honea Path, S.C., steeped in the history of the labor movement. Completed novel:
TRAVELING ALONE
(72,000 words) Nestled in the mountain ridges of North Carolina is the tight-knit Wilkesboro community where the dying are pulled to Holt Watson in the hopes he will help them leave this world. When he answers their calls, he’s paid with the dead’s gifts, like Uncle Hump’s guitar picking and Mr. Dooly’s songwriting. Now he’s parlayed those gifts into a successful music career—one that doesn’t belong to him. Holt keeps his distance from his hometown, the dying, and its powers. But then, Birdie Hardin, the woman who raised him, is on her own deathbed calling him home. |
