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Short Fiction & Essays

 

Truth and Rhetoric
June 2023, Grain

The Crying Gene
August 2021, Pangyrus

Expectations
Summer 2020, Issue 107, Canadian Notes & Queries

Little Mysteries
Spring 2020, Issue 40, Qwerty

Hold On, Just So
January 2020, Issue 49.1, Phoebe

What We Talk About When We Talk About Dave’s Shirt
July 19, 2019, The Saturday Evening Post

A Small Malignancy
June 2019, A Prairie Journal

Dear Reader, 5 Recommended Epistolary Novels
March 28, 2019, LitHub

The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets is a Cautionary Tale for the Age of ‘Kidfluencers’
March 20, 2019, TIME.com

How They Move On
Spring/Summer 2018, Freefall Magazine

Marriage Backwaters (A Love Story)
March 2017, Causeway Lit

Quality of Life
Winter 2017, Issue 188,  Antigonish Review

Mourners at the Grave of the Other Dr. Johansen
Summer 2016, WOW-Women on Writing
*BONUS: Interview with the author (me) here.

The Scrubber of Bodies
Summer 2016, Volume 4: Cobalt Review

Rags, Riches
June 2016: Bath Flash Fiction
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BONUS: Interview with the author (me) here.

Think of Sad
Spring 2016, Issue 4: F(r)iction

Lemons for Arthur
August 2015, Competition #7: Mash Stories

French Back-Seat Poetry
Spring 2015, Issue 38.1: Room Magazine
*BONUS: Hear it read aloud by the author (me) here.

Leave-taking
December 2014, Issue 32-33: Nashwaak Review

What Happened That Day
Fall 2014, Issue 22: carte blanche

How It Went Down
May 10, 2014, Fiction #51: The Danforth Review

 Safe
 Spring 2014, Issue 130: The New Quarterly index

 

What Comes Next
November 14, 2013: Pacifica Literary Review (online edition)

 

 

 

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