Published work:"Calling the Boys Home" (online) BULL (February 2025). Read it here.
"China Patterns" (online and print) Thimble Literary Magazine (December 2024). Read it here. "A Grief Ritual" (online) Understory: A Digital Zine for Relief in Western North Carolina (November 2024). Purchase here. "The Community Cash Ghost" (online) Reckon Review (September 2024). Read it here. "The Day The Beverly Died" (online) Underbelly Press (August 2024). Read it here. "Dilly Knox Fooled Around and Fell in Love" (print) BULL (June 2024). Order here. "They Died for the Rights of the Working Man" (online) Marrow Magazine (May 2024). Read it here. "I Am Shitty Bitty" (online) Doubleback Review (April 2024). Read it here. "Birthday Wishes" (online) Poverty House. (March 2024). Read it here. "Grief's Watermark" (online) Bulb Culture Collective. (February 2024). Read it here. "Chief Chicken Handler" (online) The Milk House. (February 2024). Read it here. "The Seasons of Gilly Black" (online) BULL. (February 2024). Read it here. "Top Ten Reasons There are Fewer Marriages Like Your Grandparents" (online) Robot Butt. (January 2024). Read it here. "Gallstones Rattle" (online) October Hill Magazine. (January 2024). Read it here. "A Bushel and a Peck and a Hug Around the Neck" (online) Poverty House. (December 2023). Read it here. "Francine Pascal Goes to Bible Camp" (online) Call Me [Out]. (December 2023). Read it here. "Who Were You Before I Was Me" (online) Emerge Literary Journal. (November 2023). Read it here. "Lessons Learned" (online) The Citron Review. (October 2023). Read it here. "My $10,000 Baby" (online) Ghost Parachute. (October 2023). Read it here. "Paper Dolls" (online) SugarSugarSalt Magazine. (August 2023). Read it here. "We Cover Street Preachers in Rainbows" (online) Roi Faineant. Read it here. "Tips For Not Becoming a True Crime Story" (online) Robot Butt. (July 2023) Read it here. "Generational Wealth" (online) Brevity. (July 2023) Read it here. "Self-Care With Cher" (online) Corvus Review (July 2023). Read it here. "All Women Marry Down and Other Fatherly Advice" (online) The Dead Mule School (July 2023). Read it here. “A Therapeutic Lie” (online) National Flash Fiction Day’s Flash Flood (June 24, 2023). Read it here. "True Southern Weddings and Celebrations" (online) Little Old Lady Comedy (June 2023). Read it here. "Becoming Linda" (online) JAKE (June 2023). Read it here. "Black Walnuts" (print) Door is a Jar (June 2023). "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. |
Current project:
FACTORY TOWNS
A collection of short stories giving insight into what life is like for those left behind when the mills closed down. It is set in small town South Carolina and steeped in the history of the labor movement. Cowboy Jamboree Press 2025
TRAVELING ALONE
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. |
