Fiction
My short fiction has appeared in Barzakh Magazine, The Headlight Review, Ginosko Literary Journal, Please See Me, Indiana Voice Journal, and Pilcrow & Dagger.
"The Story of a Story"
Barzakh Magazine
A story with a meta structure that makes readers question how and why they read fiction, by presenting and commenting on a character who leads a double-life behind his wife's back.
"Dial-a-Bird"
The Headlight Review
Owls run a cleaning service staffed by various bird species, but its operations leave something to be desired when Billy the parrot calls to request their services.
"The Central String"
Ginosko Literary Journal, pp. 33-37
A man cannot appreciate his parents' love until life experience changes his perspective, so that he understands love is the central string to which everything around it resonates.
Please See Me
A mental patient is obsessed with his ever-impending discharge from a state hospital to a step-down facility in Sylmar, but things do not go entirely as he expected when he makes it there.
Indiana Voice Journal
A brief meditation on dying involving a yoga teacher.
"Grandfather's Gift"
Pilcrow & Dagger
A short story about the extremes it sometimes takes for us to appreciate the gifts we have.