Published
Short Fiction
Short Fiction in Magazines:
(follow the links to read these stories - scroll to the bottom to see anthologies!)
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"The Heaven - The Earth," After Dinner Conversation, Philosophy/Ethics Short Story Magazine, September 2022.
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"Spruce, Queen of Serpents," New Myths Magazine, Fall 2022.
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Excerpt from THE BOY WHO LOVED TREES, "34=trisdesimt keturi" Gargoyle Magazine Online 2, July 2022.
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"A House on Baltic Avenue," Ellipsis Zine (Birmingham, England), October 26, 2020.
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"The Scissors of Hope and Despair," Baltimore Review, Summer 2020. (also in audio on that link)
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"Needs Milk," The Ilanot Review: Toxic, (Israel) Fall, 2020.
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"The Mayor of Flashback," Santa Barbara Literary Review, Vol 5. August 2020. (Pushcart nominated)
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"Shutter," Santa Barbara Literary Review, Vol 3. June 2019. Reposted October 28, 2020.
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"Seven Reasons Why You May Not Have a Rhinoceros as a Pet," Daily Science Fiction, August 25, 2015.
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"Remember?" on the site PeopleHolding.com - March 23, 2015
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"Orran's Music Emporium" The Lane of Unusual Traders, ed Sue Wright (Tiny Owl Workshop, Brisbane, Australia) 2015.
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"Attention Passengers," Transitions, (Saskatchewan, Canada) Winter 2014.
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"Tastemakers," The Brooklyn Rail, Summer 2014.
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"Cineplex," BuzzyMag, August 1, 2014.
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"Cooked," SpeckLit, June 6, 2014.
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"Latte," SpeckLit, April 23, 2014.
"Shadows," St. Petersburg Review #6, 2013.
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"Leave Me," Stone Voices: a Journal for the Visual Arts, Fall, 2012.
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"Fuerte Marejada," JERRY MAGAZINE, issue 2, spring 2011.
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“Empty,” New Millenium Writings (issue 20) 2011.
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"See You Later," Black Static #18, August-September 2010.
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"Treasure," Green Mountains Review, Vol. XXIII, no. 1, 2010.
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“The Champion,” Bellevue Literary Review, Vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 2010.
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"Audition" and "Virgin Flight 244, Chicago to Heathrow," Literal Latte, November 2009.
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“Keep Watch,” Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts, August 2007.
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“From the Leaf Lore,” Fickle Muses: an online journal of myth and legend, February 2007.
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“Ants,” THEMA, Just Describe Them to Me, Autumn 2006.
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“Down Below,” The Oklahoma Review, Fall 2006.
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“Dulce Domum,” The First Line, Autumn 2006.
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“Susie's Song,” Triplopia, Vol.V, Issue 1, Memory, Jan/Feb 2006.
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“An Annual Checkup,” Ladyfriend #8, the Health Issue, Winter 2004.
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“Riding Off,” Intersections, Columbia Daily Spectator: Arts Issue, May 5, 2004.
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“Sigita Washes,” Bee Museum, the journal of Baltic Writers in English, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 2002.
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“The View,” Bee Museum, the journal of Baltic Writers in English, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 2002.
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“Family,” Slant, vol. 11, no. 1, Spring, 2000.
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“Family,” PRISM: international, vol. 38, no. 1, Fall 1999.
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Short Fiction In Anthologies:
(many of these books are available for purchase through the BOOK menu item at the top of this page)
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"All Clear," Tumbled Tales: Stories that Up-end Genre Conventions, (Wandering Wave Press, 2023)
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"Baptism," A Fire to Light our Tongues, Texas Writers on Spirituality, ed. Elizabeth Joan Dell, (TCU Press, 2022)
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"Checking Out," Silver Webb's All Hallow's Eve: The Thinning Veil, 13 Tales of Halloween. (Borda Books, 2021)
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"Big Bad," Once Upon A Time (Red Penguin Press, 2021)
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"Left Brain," Delirium Corridor, ed Max Talley (Borda Books, 2020)
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"Cake," Twisted Book of Shadows, ed. Christopher Golden (2020 Shirley Jackson Award winner, best anthology, 2020 Bram Stoker Award nomination)
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"The Fourth," Tales from the Canyons of the Damned, Issue 32. (games issue), ed. Daniel Arthur Smith.
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"Ants," A Woman's Touch: 11 stories of murder and misdemeanors, ed. Anne Steussy (Kindle Edition, 2011).
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"Leave Me," The Wordstock Ten: finalists from the 2009 Wordstock Short Fiction Competition (Franklin, Beedle & Associates, Inc., 2009).
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“Dulce Domum,” Best of The First Line II: Editors' Choice 2002 - 2006 (Blue Cubicle Press, March 2008).
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“Overheard,” Stirring up a Storm: tales of the sexual, the sensual, and the erotic, (Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 2005) ed. Marilyn Jaye Lewis.
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“A Rose,” PEN Anthology: Lithuania: In Her Own Words, an anthology of contemporary Lithuanian writing, (Tyto Alba, Vilnius, 1997) ed. Laima Sruoginis.
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