Published Works
Beyond Words Literary Magazine
Excerpt:
He doesn't need to speak her language to see apprehension in the press of her bubble-gum frown, and though reassurances spill from his mouth so quickly he isn’t sure if they are in English or Spanish, she is unresponsive.
The dock is crowded, something more familiar to him than the shoes on his feet, but Eveline stares around with curled shoulders, shrinking into herself as if she can roll her body up like an insect and wheel away, back to her one-lane town and abusive father.
Embark Literary Journal
Excerpt:
“I appreciate the breathing room.”
“You have a tracker embedded in your skull. It’s not as if you can go anywhere I can’t find you.”
Planet Scumm Magazine
Excerpt:
The sun has been rising for three days now. I haven’t seen this sky, on this planet, in so long, I forget how deep the purples get. They stain the clouds, little wispy things that will be gone by sun-high, but for now they are beautiful. The dry earth shakes before my eyes, a lazy undulation that beckons me in. The air shudders under the heat; the mirrors that keep the sun from frying us can only do so much in the summers.
It’s been nearly six years—these years, not Earth ones—since I’ve been home. The sight is painful. I almost wish I never left.
Night Picnic Press
Excerpt:
There was a time I could call myself powerful. A time I would look out from my throne and judge myself a ruler — a queen, I could say, though we did not have that word then. If someone had knelt before my booted feet, asking what I feared most, I would have given them the wrong answer.
Livina Press
Excerpt:
His voice dropped to a whisper. “Will you promise you won’t hate me?”
A pang went through Cora’s chest. “I’ve never hated you, dear. I won’t start now.”