Work Experience
In the intern cave we are hungry. It is Wednesday and we were promised pizza for lunch, but no one knows when it will arrive, or who will be called to retrieve it.
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The Baker's Wife
She did something else before this—she might even have done it well. Refugee resettlement advocate, dental hygienist, accountant, small claims court lawyer, social media manager, physical therapist, insurance agent, pharmacist, dance teacher.
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Nothing that Counts
Claire is at the refreshments table, skimming the picked-over strawberries and the ignored grapes and the square vat of what’s probably hummus with an expression of polite optimism. A minute later, she’s nowhere at all.
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RecomMEN
A good man can be hard to find—but here at RecomMEN, we’ve already found them for you! Our patented algorithm sources profiles from all the most popular dating apps and pairs them with 100 percent honest reviews from vetted community members who have actually met them in person.
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King of Thieves
They both still played the game. In the evenings after work they would log on around the same time, Louisa with some takeout dinner propped between her keyboard and monitor, Greg seeming not to have eaten or slept since the last time they played.
Read at Idaho Review
Habit
Every now and then—once every few weekends or so, but never more than twice a month—Nita sinks into nothingness. It’s a controlled sink, premeditated, and ends about six hours before Seth’s car pulls into the driveway and the garage grinds open and shut.
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The Show
Their show: their 7:30pm weeknight show, the one they sit down with takeout for, with heaping bowls of stir-fry or one-pot pasta or soup, with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the nights they truly can't be bothered.
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If This Reaches You
In the valley there are wild goats. They patrol the wandering fields, grazing the grass down to a fuzz, dandelion stems hanging from their comical mouths.
Read at Southern Humanities Review
Short Stories
“Afterparty” – American Chordata (forthcoming)
“In the Afterwards” – Florida Review (forthcoming)
“King of Thieves” – Idaho Review
“The Baker’s Wife” – Adroit
“Work Experience” – West Branch
“Quaint Hometown Christmas Festivals Are Costing Me All My Best Employees” – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“Nothing That Counts” – One Story
“If This Reaches You” – Southern Humanities Review
“Habit” – Adroit – Anthony Veasna So Scholar in Fiction
“The Show” – Fence Magazine
“Big Steve” – TriQuarterly
“OptiDream” – The Normal School
“Any Day Now” – Indiana Review
“Just in Case” – Ninth Letter
“The Woman or Girl in the House or Vehicle” – The Rupture
“RecomMEN” – Ploughshares – Pushcart Prize Winner
Essays
“The Speculative Aesthetic: How Language Communicates Genre” – CRAFT
“Set the Scene” – MQR Mixtape
Reviews
Review of Masquerade by Mike Fu – Adroit
Review of Overstaying by Ariane Koch – Barrelhouse
Interviews
With Patrick Ryan at One Story