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Stories Published Online

2025

Cultivation ∣ Fictive Dream

2024


​You Wouldn't Think a Person Could Get Given Enough Tickets to See Cats to Make Christmas Decorations From ∣ Paragraph Planet

What Gifts She Had ∣ Crow & Cross Keys

We Were Dispirited ∣ Free Flash Fiction

The Best Friend I Ever Had ∣ Runner-up in the Pokrass Prize 

How I Answer When My Boss Asks What I'd Do If I Won the Lottery ∣ 2024 Micro Madness

My Parents Were Unwavering - Girl, Dance School's a Silly Dream: You'll Take That Job In the City ∣ Flash Flood Journal

You Waited Six Damn Months For Your Newly Upholstered Armchair And Now This ∣ Gooseberry Pie

2023

The Examination ∣ Ellipsis Zine ∣ no longer available online

Like Trees In A Storm ∣ The Disappointed Housewife

When You're Repeatedly Told to Stop ∣ Second Place in the Pokrass Prize  

Rhonda Montgomery Is a Bouquet of Flowers ∣ Flash Boulevard

Cast Aways ∣ Flash Boulevard

A Rising Tide ∣ Gone Lawn ∣ Issue 50 Buck Moon

They'll Assume You're Grateful For the Work ∣ Molotov Cocktail ∣ Volume 14, Issue 2 

Loosened Objects ∣ National Flash Fiction Day's Flash Flood 

He'll Get Six Months ∣ Paragraph Planet 

2022
Lacewing ∣ Flash Frontier  

Communal Living ∣ Fictive Dream 

Interview with Alice Moore, Potion Maker ∣ Great Festival Flash Off Writing Challenge, 1st place 

Settling Into The Rest Home for Ragged Girls ∣ 100 Word Story 

The Salesman ∣ Reflex Fiction Summer Competition Longlist 

Detached ∣ National Flash Fiction Day 

How We Celebrate Being Understood ∣ Free Flash Fiction 

The Blunt Scissor's Seventy-Fifth Job Interview ∣ Paragraph Planet 

Let Me Tell You What Nathan Needs ∣ Many Nice Donkeys 

2021
The Truth Behind Hailey's Arachnophobia ∣ Ellipsis Zine ∣ no longer available online

I DON'T WANT DENTURES ∣ Janus Literary 

Last Night with the Stoatman ∣ National Flash Fiction Day, Flash Flood 

2020
Recovery ∣ Autumn Reflex Flash Fiction Competition 

O Tannenbaum ∣ Weird Xmas Flash Fiction Contest 

Refashioning Another Clumsy Gift from My Mother Into Something I Really Want ∣ National Flash Fiction Day, Flash Flood ∣ 

2019
It Wasn't a Black Dog, It Was Never a Black Dog ∣ The Molotov Cocktail Flash Monster 

The Kids Built Me a Roadside Memorial ∣ Reflex Fiction Summer Competition, Longlist 

What Gets Left Behind ∣ Reflex Fiction Summer Competition, Longlist 

Visits to the Archive of Obsolete Sounds ∣ Ellipsis Zine ∣ no longer available online

Lineage ∣ 101 Fiction: Maps 

2018
​Tip ∣ Reflex Fiction (Autumn, 2018) Longlist 

The Grieving Gallery Attendant is Going to Quit ∣ The TSS Flash Fiction 400 (Winter, 2018) Winner 

Sam's Strategy to Get All of the Duvet ∣ BIFFY50 Microfiction Contest (autumn), Runner-Up 

Dad Your Name Means Brave ∣ The TSS Flash Fiction 400 (Winter, 2018), Shortlist ∣ 2018

Stories in Print

The Kiss ∣ Flash Fiction Festival: Five 

The Day I Stopped Having Unsatisfactory Relationships ∣ The Hungry Ghosts Magazine: Issue Two 

How My Best Friend Helped Me Grieve My Parents ∣ Wrong Way Go Back Pure Slush Vol. 19 

Empathy ∣ VSS365 Anthology 

Half a Mile from Home ∣ National Flash Fiction Day Anthology