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“Blue Light”
Zoetrope All Story Extra

"Unnecessary Impressions"
2nd Prize in Lumina’s 2005 National Flash Fiction Contest (reprinted at: The Santa Fe Writers Project)

"Lost and Found"
Runner up in Geist's Postcard Story Contest / Issue 66

"Calling Home from a Phone Booth Outside a Pub in North Dublin"
Geist's Postcard Story Contest / Issue 57

“The Next Stop”
Prize Winning Fiction at Literary Juice Magazine

“Moon Time”
Short Fiction at Word Riot

“My New Place,”
“Rooms For Rent, Men Only” ,

Liquid Imagination

“Anatomy of a Micro-fiction”

Widely used educational resource for teachers & students.

“Grave Invitation” at Liquid Imagination
A multi-media piece, short & neat.

read by Brandon Rucker

Our Trip to The Moon

Audio at Boundoff.com, read by Ann Rushton
(2 minutes 57 seconds. Starts at 1:25)

Finalist for the 2015 Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction

I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can’t
you can’t you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don’t write
— from “Berryman,” by W. S. Merwin