AJ Will Meet You at the Dive Bar Light Switch And I just say, “Do it.” It comes out of me like it’s not even me, and now I’m terrified.
Flash Nonfiction Hot Streak Like you, I’ve read studies—well, summaries of studies—about how inaccurate recall is when forced upon intense or traumatic events.
Flash Nonfiction The Egg Essay I move even closer to the window while I watch this husband and wife, this mom and dad, hide eggs all over the yard.
Flash Nonfiction The Runaway WWII Jeep “If the jeep won’t start, you can use the choke; but never use the throttle.”
Flash Nonfiction Threes a crowd I didn’t utter the words “I love you” again in a romantic context for more than two years...
Flash Nonfiction The Crocodile Comes for Everyone What I do remember is two grandfathers, 26 years apart.
Flash Nonfiction Eight-Year-Old Self Writes A Story Good stories should have the things you like in them: the glittery, jewel-toned things otherwise unattainable.
Flash Nonfiction Reference Call I step out of my office into the dirty-white hallway beneath the coffin lid of fluorescent lights to take the call.
Flash Nonfiction Hold On I'm always a minute too late to the punchline, the food is always cold when he gets to the table, his height changes the minute I etch it into the persimmon tree.
Elena Wants to Get Stabbed By an Icicle How To Break Up With A Toxic Loved One: a handy guide to being civilized instead of honest I’m growing as a person, learning a lot about myself and how my past experiences have impacted me. I’m reevaluating what’s worked for me and what hasn’t.
Flash Nonfiction Rural Town Wellness Check You stare at him. One beat passes. Two. This cannot be happening.
Nominated for Best of the Net 2025 Is it still Dollar Pizza if it’s a Dollar Fifty? On Facebook people are even angrier and it’s more real, because if you’re on Facebook in 2022 you don’t care what people think of you.
Flash Nonfiction The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down I wanted once before to honk my horn against the swastika that he’d drawn on the poster board he got from the Dollar General, but I had the horn’s fuse pulled as a wild experiment in radical pacifism.
Flash Nonfiction This is where I'd end it “This sucks,” I yell, and what I mean by “this” is everything.
Flash Nonfiction Kübler-Ross Knuckle Tattoo Sure we sink into the depression, the low tide surging to riptide and pulling us out and away with the poets. But it has to be deeper than that.
Flash Nonfiction Red Light/Green Light I think I’m straight, but I play rugby, so I must be at least bisexual, right? So…orange?
Flash Nonfiction The Ice Cream Flavor Paradox I know I always feel good in that identity, but what if I want to dress sexier for a night out with friends? Or more formal for an interview? What if I’m just in the mood for something different?
Nominated for Best of the Net 2025 How I Became the God of Crows It would have been inconsequential if it’d happened to anyone else, except it happened to me, and I don’t lose things.
Flash Nonfiction WHAT LOVE MEANS TO ME CW: implied homo/transphobia, shitty parenting, suicidal ideation
