Maudlin House • 20th October 2023

Carillon

Stief accepted the gig for us to play a Halloween show in Centralia. We told him to back out, that we’d land us a spot at Urban Bloodbath and we wouldn’t have to leave Chicago. Stief told us how much more we’d get paid and showed us an article about a statue in a Centralia cemetery. The statue is of a little girl and her violin. Stief read that the girl, Annie, died when she was 11 and that some people still hear her violin at night. “This website says her statue glows on Halloween,” Stief marve

matchbook • 22nd December 2020

Disappear

The bodyguard told me about accompanying dignitaries on long plane rides, how his job gave him amphetamines to keep him awake.

Tiny Molecules • 22nd December 2020

Fizzy

Back home, still in the plum dress, I took my shoes off and held a champagne bottle like a teddy bear.

GRAVEL • 29th September 2020

Erin Lyndal Martin

He gave her perfume for Christmas, department store perfume, not the drugstore kind.

25th March 2020

Someone I Admire | MONKEYBICYCLE

“The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is the character of the individual walking the path.” —Travis Alexander

I’ve been doing this workbook called Half of a Happy Couple. The author says you can’t ever change your partner, but if you work on yourself the relationship will change for the better. Last week’s exercise was to think of what I don’t like about myself in this relationship, and then I wrote a list of all the times I had been too passive.

Like all the times my

Hobart • 25th March 2020

The Red Ones Come From Taillights

And the nude beach takes over the online personals, at least in the ads that men place.

Heavy Feather Review • 11th March 2020

Spiritualist Erotica by Erin Lyndal Martin: “The Flower Medium”

You probably don’t lose a lot of sleep these days thinking about the Flower Medium of Berlin. I remember you joking that she was a “garden variety nutjob.” She was missing some petals.

27th October 2019

Breech

First she swam in me.

Barren Magazine • 9th October 2019

Porcelain

Last week was paper chain week at the White Rose Brigade.

Squalorly • 23rd July 2019

Kiss Me in the Sad Mall

If you were here with me, we’d make out in the sad mall while the bass-heavy speakers played “Escapade” by Janet Jackson.

5th February 2023

Either Slash Or

You are a Mormon woman, modest but bubbly. You meet a man who just got out of the military but still contracts for them.

The Rupture • 15th June 2019

No One Comes Back as a Horse

The horse was a four-legged, hooved creature in existence for many years.

Cease, Cows • 15th June 2019

In a Cornfield

I don’t know if a cornfield can ever truly be empty, but this one is.

Atticus Review • 29th September 2015

Sex Pistols T-Shirt

I would give you back your Sex Pistols t-shirt, but there’s no way you’d trust me with your address.

SmokeLong Quarterly • 15th June 2019

The Part You Throw Away

He never wrote her, not a single letter, not even after all the evenings they shared by the coast.

Fiction Southeast • 15th June 2019

Grow Grow Grow

I don’t need anybody to tell me what I was thinking when I went outside in my boots that day.

Flash Flash Click / Angel's Flight • 15th June 2019

The Rock Star Fills In the Blank

I can’t tell what the rock star is singing about, but it’s probably lobotomies or electroshock therapy.

NEW FLASH FICTION REVIEW • 3rd October 2017

Darling

It was her fourth day off the meds and the second week of his mindfulness phase.

New South • 27th March 2017

Soft Pink Light

There was a boy who found a dead hummingbird next to a deflated mylar balloon.

WHISKEYPAPER • 15th June 2019

BLURT

Learn what it is to love to be wrong.

Utter • 15th June 2019

Neutron Star

Juked • 15th June 2019

Daughters of the Republic

There are not one but two women who are credited with saving the Alamo.

Spittoon • 15th June 2019

There Are Cats in the Coliseum

Swarm • 12th February 2014

Lucky Duck

She was wearing an oversized black Ramones t-shirt made for a boy, and the letters on the front were all in big blocky white letters.