The Ghost Story at Jellyfish Review

The ghost story goes like this: I’m a ghost and you are too, and we’re stuck in the hallway of an office building. Some of the offices are for tax accountants, and lawyers, and therapists with white noise machines cricketing outside their doors, and one is a dentist, and one is a chiropractor who mixes […]

Review: The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

[Note: I wrote this review of The Friend by Sigrid Nunez for The East Bay Review, Oakland’s quarterly literary journal. As The East Bay Review is temporarily offline due to technical issues, I’m posting it here until The East Bay Review’s triumphant return.] Published February 2018 by Riverhead Books $25.00 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0735219441 The Friend tells the story of an unnamed […]

It is I, Cheryl Blossom, Requesting Your Aid in this Most Trying Time

Dear Peons and Classmates, I trust you have found this tiny crystal bottle that I floated down the river, buoyed only by my white ruffled pantaloons, and this note I write with red lip stain from the confines of this most horrible imprisonment. Although it pains me to request anything from you, my so-called peers, […]

the boy band at joyland magazine

The boy band moves like happy sexy machines. Trent lifts his hands over his head like he’s blocking so many beach balls. Rex snaps his fingers low and fast in front of his pecs, and Mark sings behind his drum kit.

Of Angela at Entropy Mag Online

she rose and tapped her bedside table exactly twenty-four times with her forefinger, then put her small feet into a pair of worn velvet slippers that she kept tucked under her bed, toes pointing towards the room’s door as if ready to walk out at any moment.

2017 Reading Log

These are all the books I read in 2017 that I remembered to write down. Asterisks indicate that I didn’t finish the book, for whatever reason (usually I just got distracted, or it was due at the library).

Diplomacy at Here Comes Everyone

To their first meeting, Marcia Hernandez of Earth brought a platinum-coated quantum computer containing evidence of all of humankind’s most impressive accomplishments, and Nyrgris Xxixa of Yrgrys brought a potted plant.

Read Me in Mad Scientist Journal!

You can read my angry lady robot story “I, Angelica” in Mad Scientist Journal! The piece also appeared in their summer 2017 issue. I actually wrote this piece in my first ever creative writing workshop at UC Davis with the super generous Annie Liontas (if you haven’t read Let Me Explain You, you should go get it now).

My First Witch at The Birds We Piled Loosely

In a very *~*seasonal*~* move, The Birds We Piled Loosely has selected my flash piece “My First Witch” for their twelfth issue. {Author’s note: The Birds We Piled Loosely is now the journal with the longest name to have published my work! Move over, sPARKLE & bLINK.}

Reviewing for East Bay Review

Hey everybody! I have exciting news: I’m joining the team at the East Bay Review as a contributor. You can read my first review for the site here; it’s for a flash fiction chapbook called The Missing Girl by local author Jacqueline Doyle. I’m still getting my reviewer’s sea legs, but it’s been awesome requesting free books from […]