Write literary fiction, sci-fi & crime. Words: @SatEvePost @glimmertrain @commonmag & more.

Joined April 2012
“I’m not a pyro,” I whisper. …from my short story “Burn Memory,” published today in @SatEvePost. Free to read: saturdayeveningpost.com/2026…
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Published a tiny flash fiction piece that took nine years to find it’s home! (Persistence is delusional until it works, and then it's "persistence" again and survivorship bias takes a bow.) The story wintersweetslitmag.com/issue… The backstory arsenalofwords.com/2026/10/1…
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PSAs. Please share. Our next free-submissions window opens on Nov 16. We're also reading for The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest until Nov 15 and The SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship until Dec 15. SmokeLong will always have free-submissions windows.
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Did you know candles have memory? Blow one out too early the first time, and… see what happens in “Burn Memory,” my new short story in the @SatEvePost.
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. @redividermag is open for submissions of fiction, flash, poetry, personal essays, and more until May 1. "Mon Petit Chou" by Meg Mullins was my favorite flash fiction piece they recently published redivider.emerson.edu/mon-pe…
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Speculative fiction has many functions. Sometimes it's just escapist, and that's okay-no judgement. But sometimes the best way to think about the problems and tensions of your life or your society is to contemplate them on a different planet. Distance can strangely bring clarity.
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Best markets for experimental flash fiction?
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Swept up by this Bay Area story from Issue 50 of Washington Square Review. Read "Droughts" by Lillian Giles washingtonsquarereview.com/l… It inspired me to submit one of my own for the next issue of @on_squ! #amsubmitting cc: @arleysorg @effies @shivzb
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Totes.
I assume this is a rejection letter. But maybe it's just a status update? 🤣
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Become a published author! Each month WIRED asks readers to submit a sci-fi story of exactly SIX WORDS. This month's prompt is: 𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗜 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟. Submit your story by leaving a comment on this post with the hashtag #wiredsixword.
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Read @ZachRoseWriter's elegiac and haunting "Sitting Shiva" in Issue 29 of @thedeadlands: thedeadlands.com/issue-29/si… Maybe it'll inspire you to submit a story before the Nov. deadline. I did.
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Nimrod is seeking thematic submissions for the topic of "refuge." Check out our website for more details! artsandsciences.utulsa.edu/n…
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Dear writers, editors, publishers...Please do not add people to your newsletters without their permission. It's annoying and overbearing. Let subscribers come to you and sign up because they choose to. Thank you.
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