Publications

Creative Work

Most recent publications are listed first.

2026

"Just Another Life Experience," in FlashFlood (2026)

"The Hitchhiker," in Fictive Dream (2026)

"Imposter Syndrome," in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine (2026--short-listed in the annual Gooseberry Pie contest)

"All My Old Selves," in Moon City Review (2026)

"Something Called Love," in Rawhead Journal (2026)

"How Much Is It Worth to You?" and "Strangers," in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine (2026)

"Something in the Water," in Fractured Lit (2026)

"Doesn't That Sound Great, Mary Beth?" in Flash Frog (2026–2nd-place winner in the Blue Frog flash fiction contest)

"Rusty's Razor," in Does It Have Pockets (2026)

2025

"My Ex Ray's X-Ray Vision," in BULL (2025)

"All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye" and "Paint Fumes," in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine (2025)

"Let's Not Lose Our Heads," in Ghost Parachute (2025)

"It's All in Your Head," in The Spotlong Review (2025)

"What If Everything Is Already Ruined?” in Claudine (2025–nominated for Best Microfiction 2026)

“Put a Hat on or You’ll Catch Your Death,” in Ghost Parachute (2025)

“Shooting for the Moon,” in FlashFlood (2025)

“Collector’s Items,” in Neither Fish Nor Foul (2025)

“This Is Very Concerning,” in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine (2025–earned an honorable mention in Gooseberry Pie's 2nd annual story contest)

“For Fun, Your Boyfriend Dissects Furbies,” in Milk Candy Review (2025); plus, “Two Questions for Jessica Klimesh” about the story (2025)

“Everything in the World Is Going Missing,” in Flash Fiction Magazine (2025)

“Holes,” in Ghost Parachute (2025)

“Transformation,” in SoFloPoJo (South Florida Poetry Journal) (2025)

“Welcome to The Choice Is Yours!,” published on Feed Your Demons (Kathryn Kulpa’s Substack) (2025–2nd place winner in Kathryn’s Twelfth Night Writing Contest)

2024

“The Body Shop,” in Cleaver Magazine (2024–nominated for Best Small Fictions)

“The Day I Went Missing,” in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine (2024–selected for Best Microfiction 2025)

“Playing God,” in Gone Lawn (2024)

“Would You Rather Freeze to Death or Burn to Death?” in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine (2024–long-listed for the SmokeLong Workshop Prize; read SmokeLong interview here)

“Breaking,” in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine (2024)

“All the Ways You Can Bring the Dead Back to Life,” in Ghost Parachute (2024)

“Lessons,” in Does It Have Pockets (2024)

“Almost Human” and “On Saturdays, It’s Perfect,” in Funicular [Issue 14–print journal] (2024)

“Negation,” in Midwest Weird (2024); bonus author interview (2024) here

“Not the Tulips I Was Expecting,” in Stonecoast Review (2024)

“Dolly the Sheep Is Everywhere,” in Many Nice Donkeys (2024)

“Jane Jane Jane Jane Jane” (short-listed in The Berlin Review's flash fiction contest), in The Berlin Review (2024)

“Say Red,” in Twin Bird Review (2024)

“Herd Mentality,” in FlashFlood (2024)

“Too Good to Be True” (1st place winner in Gooseberry Pie's six-sentence story contest), in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine (2024–selected for Best of the Net 2025)

“Emerge,” a collaborative story co-authored with Christine H. Chen and Jane Salmons, in Atticus Review (2024)

“Pretending,” “Good-bye, Ruby,” “The Tooth Fairy Is Flat Broke” (nominated for Best Small Fictions), “Self-Portrait,” and “Frosty Goes Back to His Wife,” in Flash Boulevard (2024)

“Stuck Together,” in Whale Road Review (2024–nominated for Best Microfiction)

“What They Don’t Know,” in Star 82 Review (2024)

“Bess Is in Love,” in Y2K Quarterly (2024)

“Pinch Me,” in Flash Frog (2024)

“The Trip to the Zoo,” in In Parentheses (2024)

“Fitting In,” in Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine (2024)

“All Green,” in Club Plum Literary (2024)

“The Train Wails,” in Bulb Culture Collective (2024)

“Bye-Over,” in Microfiction Monday Magazine (2024)

“Always, Always,” in Unbroken (2024–nominated for Best of the Net)

2023

“The New Wives,” in The Spotlong Review (2023)

“Red Light, Green Light,” in South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo) (2023)

“The Bendable Girls Can Do It,” in 3Elements Literary Review (2023)

“Hush,” in Flash Fiction Magazine (2023–nominated for Best Small Fictions)

“The Typing Pool,” in The Dribble Drabble Review (2023–nominated for Best Small Fictions)

“Spelling Bee” (nominated for Best Microfiction) and “It Won’t Happen to Us,” in Does It Have Pockets (2023)

“Nobody Tells You Any of This,” in Cleaver Magazine (2023–nominated for Best Small Fictions)

“Come Back to Me,” in Bright Flash Literary Review (2023)

“You’re Just Growing Up” (3rd place winner in the 2023 South Shore Review Flash Fiction Contest), in South Shore Review (2023)

“The Falling Game,” in Complete Sentence Lit (2023)

“Gossip Like Bichons and Poodles,” in Bending Genres (2023)

“Odd Mammal Out,” in The Woolf (2023–nominated for Best of the Net)

“Small Talk,” in 10 By 10 Flash Fiction Stories (2023)

“Harbinger of Death,” in Microfiction Monday Magazine (2023)

“This Is What They Have Trained For,” in The Dribble Drabble Review (2023)

“The Ghosts Arrive While You’re Sleeping,” in Scribes Micro Fiction (2023)

2022

“All the Children Around the World,” in HAD (2022)

“Ellee Says She’s a Fish,” in trampset (2022—nominated for Best Small Fictions)

“On the Roof,” in Atticus Review (2022)

“The Raw, Ugly Kind,” in Variety Pack (2022)

“Walking on the Furniture,” in Cleaver (2022—nominated for Best Microfiction)

“Let the Dog See the Rabbit,” in Brink (2022—nominated for the Pushcart Prize)

“The Start of a Bad Joke,” in Jersey Devil Press (2022)

2021

“Little by Little, Dismemberment,” in Ghost Parachute (2021)

“You Are a Woman,” in Every Day Fiction (2021)

“My Want,” in City.River.Tree (2021)

“The Warbler at the Window,” in Bending Genres (2021)

“How Long Until,” in FlashFlood (2021)

“The Cowboy Junkies and a Glass of Cabernet,” in Star 82 Review (2021)

“Rat-a-Tat-Tat,” in Star 82 Review (2021)

“Systemic Circulation,” in TIMBER (2021)

“Whiskey Burns Faster,” in Farside Review (2021)

Untitled 10-word story (short-listed in the Write 10, Win 10 contest) in Briefly Write (2021)

“Inflatable Santas Lining the Block,” in The Café Irreal (2021)

2008 – 2020

“Because and Because,” in Backchannels (2020)

“A Series of Bodies,” in Briefly Write (2020)

“Truffles,” in Unlikely Stories (2016)

Untitled micropoem in Four and Twenty (May 2013)

Untitled and “The Interrupter” (micropoems), in Four and Twenty (April 2013)

“First” (micropoem), in Four and Twenty (March 2013)

“Retort” and “Name” (micropoems), in Four and Twenty (October 2012)

“Corduroys,” Honorable Mention in Poetry, Toledo City Paper's Poetry & Fiction Contest (2009)

“Bukowski,” Foundation for Creative Expression’s Beat Museum Poet of the Month winner (2008)

Writing Tips & Craft-Related Articles

A Flash Fiction Writing Tip, Vancouver Flash Fiction (2025)

“Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket: The Benefits of Multitasking as a Writer,” a writing tip, in Cleaver (2025)

“Let Your Subconscious Do the Work,” a writing tip, in Cleaver (2024)

“BCC Shines a Light on: Jessica Klimesh [interview],” in Bulb Culture Collective (2024)

“An Interview with Kathryn Kulpa, author of Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted,” in Cleaver (2023)

“Write Less, Read More,” a writing tip, in Cleaver (2023)

“Where Poetry and Fiction Merge,” a craft essay, in Atticus Review (2022)