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Stories Published Online

2022
Lacewing 
∣ Flash Frontier ∣ 2022 

Communal Living
 
∣ Fictive Dream ∣ 2022

Interview with Alice Moore, Potion Maker ∣ Great Festival Flash Off Writing Challenge, 1st place ∣ 2022

Settling Into The Rest Home for Ragged Girls ∣ 100 Word Story ∣ 2022

The Salesman ∣ Reflex Fiction Summer Competition Longlist ∣ 2022

Detached ∣ National Flash Fiction Day ∣ 2022

How We Celebrate Being Understood ∣ Free Flash Fiction ∣ 2022

The Blunt Scissor's Seventy-Fifth Job Interview 
∣ Paragraph Planet ∣ 2022

Let Me Tell You What Nathan Needs ∣ Many Nice Donkeys ∣ 2022

2021
The Truth Behind Hailey's Arachnophobia ∣ Ellipsis Zine ∣ 2021

I DON'T WANT DENTURES ∣ Janus Literary ∣ 2021

Last Night with the Stoatman ∣ National Flash Fiction Day, Flash Flood ∣ 2021


2020
Recovery ∣ Autumn Reflex Flash Fiction Competition ∣ 2020

O Tannenbaum ∣ Weird Xmas Flash Fiction Contest ∣ 2020

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 
∣ 2019

The Kids Built Me a Roadside Memorial ∣ 
Reflex Fiction Summer Competition, Longlist ∣ 2019

What Gets Left Behind ∣ Reflex Fiction Summer Competition, Longlist ∣ 2019

Visits to the Archive of Obsolete Sounds ∣ Ellipsis Zine ∣ 2019

Lineage ∣ 101 Fiction: Maps ∣ 2019

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

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

Sam's Strategy to Get All of the Duvet ∣ BIFFY50 Microfiction Contest (autumn), Runner-Up ∣ 2018


Long and Short-listed Stories

The Salesman ∣ Reflex Fiction Summer Competition Longlist ∣ 2022

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Fractured Lit Flash Fiction Prize ∣ Longlist ∣ 2021
 
Fifteenth Bath Flash Fiction Award 
∣ Shortlist ∣ 2020

Last Night with the Stoat Man ∣ Thirteenth Bath Flash Fiction Award, Longlist ∣ 2020

Bridport Flash Fiction Prize ∣ Shortlist ∣ 2019 

Uki Survives on Scraps from the Fish Market ∣ TSS Flash Fiction 400 Shortlisted ∣ 2019

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

Alice Takes Them Out at Cousin Betty's Wedding ∣ Tenth Bath Flash Fiction Award,  Longlist ∣ 2018
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I Was a Sparrow Once ∣ Reader's Digest 100-word Story Competition, Shortlist 
∣ 2017

Nominations

Ellipsis Zine Best of...2022

Detached 
∣ National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood ∣ Best Small Fictions 2023

Let Me Tell You What Nathan Needs ∣ Many Nice Donkeys ∣ Best of the Net Nomination ∣ 2022

Refashioning Another Clumsy Gift from My Mother Into Something I Really Want ∣ Flash Flood ∣ Pushcart Prize Award Nominee ∣ 2020

Tip ∣ Reflex Fiction Autumn Competition, Longlist Nominated by Reflex for Best Small Fictions Anthology, 2019

Stories in Print

The Day I Stopped Having Unsatisfactory Relationships ∣ The Hungry Ghosts Magazine: Issue Two ∣ 2021

How My Best Friend Helped Me Grieve My Parents ∣ Wrong Way Go Back Pure Slush Vol. 19 ∣ 2020

Empathy ∣ VSS365 Anthology ∣ 2019

Half a Mile from Home ∣ National Flash Fiction Day Anthology  ∣ 2019

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