Short Fiction

 

The weird, the wounded, and the wrong.

 

Short fiction and humour published in literary journals and magazines. Follow the links to read at the original publications; some require a subscription or purchase.

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• Resuscitate — Wigleaf
  Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2024
   

• Axolotl Soup — Pithead Chapel
  Nominated for Best Small Fictions, 2024
   

• The Jump from Piper Alpha — trampset
  Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2025
   

• Waiting to say goodbye — Necessary Fiction
   

• Psalm 23 — X-R-A-Y
   

• Free Fallin’ — SmokeLong Quarterly
  Finalist, A SmokeLong Summer Prize, 2023
   

• Solemnly Swear — JMWW
   

• 2 Samuel 18 — South Florida Poetry Journal
   

• What are the plans for the weekend? — Chestnut Review
   

• The Handyman — Meetinghouse, volume iii (print issue)
   

• As Kites Have A Want To Do — BULL
   

• Know Before Whom Thou Dost Stand — BULL
   

• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness — Major 7th Magazine
   

• My New Girlfriend’s Family Are Notable Taxidermists — The Offing
   

• Mrs Beatrix — X-R-A-Y
   

• Wild Gazelle — SmokeLong Quarterly
  Finalist, The SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction, 2025
   

• Irreconcilable Differences — Lunch Ticket
  Longlisted, Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions, 2025
   

• Dewdrops — hex
   

• Bad Behaviour — BULL
   

• Who got what? — HAD
   

• Flight Attendant Fight School — McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
   

• We Banned Screens On Our Holiday, Now We’re All Addicted To Heroin — Slackjaw
   

• Honest Agenda for Your Next Team Building Meeting — The Cooper Review
   

• New Apps for Agoraphobes and Homebodies — Defenestration​​

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