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“The Train Station That Knows What You Need” and “We Dream in Color” in Chimerical Remembrance

| January 27, 2026

I have two flash fiction pieces that share themes of longing, dreams, and also colors: “The Train Station That Knows What You Need” and “We Dream in Color.” The first story, “The Train Station That Knows What You Need,” is a fairly dreamy surreal piece about a remote Japanese train station with abnormal properties. The […]

My Recent Post-Apocalyptic Stories

| July 15, 2025

I’ve had a few new post-apocalyptic stories out since my last post on the topic! “Child’s Play,” published in Bullet Points in October 2024, involves interplanetary travel to a world in which survivors have taken up residence in a reinforced junkyard and an injured person on the run encounters some of the young residents of that […]

November 2024 Recap

| December 5, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 60 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 25 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 16 New Submissions: 10 Stories out at the end of the month: 57 November was a little slow on the submissions front, in large part because I spent almost the entire first […]

My November 2024 Publications

| December 3, 2024

I had two new pieces out in November this year: a flash fiction story and a poem. My flash fiction piece was “We Dream in Color,” a post-apocalyptic story with queer characters, in Toad Shade Zine. This one came out of a one-hour flash fiction writing challenge and was inspired by an image of a […]