News
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
"Fumes” has been accepted for publication in Quotidian Bagatelle, a new imprint by Foofaraw press. 23 words, wrote it after reading a couple Lydia Davis microfiction pieces. I had already placed it in the "unpublishable" folder so quite a surprise - and got $1 for it! In other things, I'm quite surprised that none of my "horror" stories have found a home yet. Maybe editors don't appreciate my hammer-in-the-head approach to horror - or maybe they haven’t been hit hard enough yet.
Monday, December 15, 2025
"Diversified” has been accepted for publication in Last Girls' Club. Very cool zine with podcast, print and all! It was one of the first stories I wrote, and the one that made me decide to write with a pseudonym - very political but fun.
Monday, December 9, 2025
"The Bull” has been accepted for publication in Horrific Scribes. The editor was incredible, his magazine's all about transgressive stuff so I sent one of my most transgressive tales - a story about racism in America. "I think what you've done is brilliant... very risky, but brilliant," he said. In other updates, looks like the publication in Kweli fell through. I was hyped about it, exchanged a couple messages with the editor, I guess shit happens. I still have blind faith in that one!
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
"An Occurrence at County Lane Road” has been accepted for publication in Kweli Journal. Woke up, grabbed my phone (first thing in the morning, like any addict), saw “Kweli Journal” and thought: oh cool, another rejection. Instead: “We love your art and would like to publish your piece.” Let’s go!
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
“Bait” has been accepted for publication in Ink In Thirds magazine. After nearly 20 years away from fiction, I started writing again in July 2025. When I wrote this story (after hearing Patty Griffin’s “Big Daddy” on the radio) it was the first time I thought "oh, I can actually write." I sent it out to many places, but it kept getting rejected. Yesterday, I decided to change the ending; I suspected it was too subtle. It’s still subtle, but it seems that the revision made my intentions clearer to editors.
Saturday, November 29, 2025
"White Chocolate Macadamia Nut" has been accepted for publication in Northwest Indiana Literary Journal. I think it's pretty cool, borderline non-fiction.
Friday, November 28, 2025
"Consumption II" has been accepted for publication in Horror Sleaze Trash. It's natural place. It's my partner's favorite tale.
Thursday, November 27, 2025
"Scrub Scrub" and "The Tiger-Striped Cat" have been accepted for publication in Serotonin and Quill To Fill, respectively. Good stories, human. I'm still waiting for my "heavy-weights" to be accepted somewhere (just got rejection from Podcastle after a praising first review).
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
"The Pear Tree" has been accepted for publication! This one was a bit of a struggle to get it accepted, not sure why. It's about my biggest fear since I relocated to the USA. Looking forward to seeing it online, Issue 5!
Friday, November 22, 2025
"Town Hall" was accepted for publication today in Weird Daze Lit Magazine. It’s my first paid publication, so I guess I’m officially a pro. Enough for a coffee at Speedway (probably not at Starbucks). It's a horror story based on my experience going to the town hall to protest against a data center near my house.
Friday, November 21, 2025
"The Bay" was accepted for publication today in Temple in a City, an online magazine. The editor wrote "People talk about stories that linger after you read them and I think many of us aspire to that but this one actually did it". Highest praise I've got in my (short) career, over the moon!
Thursday, November 13, 2025
"Bob" was accepted for publication last week in Midwest Weird, an audio magazine. Good for him. Took me a week to reply, as I have been focused on community activism to get a data center our of my backyard. NIMBY! It was accepted after a couple days. It's very strange that I either get rejections after months or very quick acceptances. Polarizing stuff.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
"The House on O Street" has just been published in Expat Press. Sent it, one hour later, available online. Hope that's a good thing. I wrote it back in August after staying in some gentrified Airbnb during a conference trip to DC. It'd been "In Progress" at a couple other places since then. I think it's a cool piece, funny, bitter, subtle. Probably my best flash to this date.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
"Symphonies of Desire" has just been accepted for publication in Modern Alchemy Press' first short story collection "TV DEATH ZINE: Volume I". Physical book, very excited about it! Got it accepted in about a day. I think it's a great piece of gothic filth. Hope it's available soon!
Friday, October 24, 2025
This is the beginning of this archive. A couple days ago I had "Cleveland, Ohio" - my first story in 20 years - accepted by a new online magazine, Cryptic Frog, about a day after submission. Pretty neat. Then, I decided to store all my pieces somewhere. Here. They'll make a wonderful book someday. Or an awful one that nobody will read. We'll see.