Essays
A secret society meets on the coast for their seasonal burning of the Mugwort Queen.
In the Winter of 2019, a trans man struggles to find a bathroom in the middle of Manhattan nearing midnight.
A rumination on parallel familial experiences separated by a generation
Articles
The annual Winter Carnival takes place - on a frozen solid lake in upstate New York.
A nursing student comes to the aid of an elderly neighbor who has fallen and cannot get up.
A deeper look into campaign yard signs in a county where the Sheriff has remained the same for a quarter century.
Interviews with educators in the public and alternative school systems to answer the final question: what does success in education mean to you?
Fiction
A woman mourns the loss of her wife and accepts a mysterious offer to visit a sin-eater from a local deacon.
Published in American Gothic Short Stories by Flame Tree Publishing.
Two young men barbarically prank their coworker and meet something sinister in the woods at night.
Published in Monstroddities by Sliced Up Press
Reviews
A review of the literary novel Unwieldy Creatures, a biracial, gender-bent, queer, modern retelling of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, by Addie Tsai.
A review of the fantasy novel The Stones Stay Silent, by Danny Ride, a tale of a trans hero trying to be happy, his pun-cracking demon bestie, and his experiences on the road that leave him wondering about the secrets behind the night demon that follows him, the mysterious disease in his region, and more importantly, how his society came to have the rules that raised and restricted him.
*Originally published on Reedsy; I was given an advanced copy to review.
A review of the dystopian, sci-fi novel, Perfect, by Jen Heller, that tells the tale of a twisted, parallel world where humans are split into two entities of genetically engineered and enhanced humans called perfects, and average humans called imperfects. In this world, what does it mean to be human?
*Originally published on Reedsy; I was given an advanced copy to review.
A review of the novel Burning with a Blue Flame, by Sebastian Dureaux-Russell, a queer love-story that plays on misguided nostalgia for the Golden Age of Hollywood and the implications a person's queerness had on the many layers of their lives in the 20th century.
*Originally published on Reedsy; I was given an advanced copy to review.