Another Award Winner!
I’m pleased to share that “The Cleaving” won an award in the 26th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition.
As soon as publication information is available, I’ll post it here and send an update.
Set during a casual lunch at a street-side restaurant on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, the story starts in the ordinary. It doesn’t stay there.
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I’m thrilled to have one of my stories featured in Winter 2025 Issue of
The Penn Review.
When Ryan returns from college for one friend's funeral, a midnight drive to the dunes with the friend who caused it becomes a reckoning with grief, addiction, and the terrible limits of love.
Jon’s therapist tells him to stop looking backward—but when he learns about the Archive of Unsent Messages, he can’t let it go. Some silences were never meant to be heard … or were they?
Published in CaféLit Magazine!
An Infinite Capacity
As published in the Twin Bird Review.
At the lake’s edge, he stirs a familiar chowder—then casts something irreplaceable into the water.