When I first began writing fiction, I wrote short stories. It was a decade or more before I even contemplated writing a novel. One of the best short stories I’ve ever read was “A Small Good Thing” by Raymond Carver. I’ve read it again and again, along with every other story he’s written. Carver was, of course, the grand master of the minimalist style and has had a significant influence on my own writing style.
My first short story was published in 1991 and my most recent story was published in July 2025.
My short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including North American Review, Sinister Wisdom, Appalachian Heritage, Habersham Review, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives, and Seven Hills Review, and anthologies titled Law and Disorder from Main Street Rag, Bridges and Borders from Jane’s Stories Press, Saints and Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2012, and Walking the Edge, a southern gothic anthology from Twisted Road Publications. My short story “Whelping” was a finalist for the Rash Award and appears in the 2014 issue of Broad River Review.
Published Short Stories
One of my favorite stories was just published in a new online magazine, DuFrank Lit, I was drawn to submit this story because of a statement on their website that says: “We want to see the beauty in the grey areas, and characters that effectively portray or explore the unseen and unsaid of the human condition.”
You can read the story, Free Ride, HERE
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In 2016, My publisher, Twisted Road Publications, published an anthology, Walking the Edge, with an introduction by Dorothy Allison. One of my short stories, “Pink Moon”, was included. “Pink Moon” also won second place in the Saints and Sinners fiction contest in 2012
You can read a copy of Pink Moon HERE