Convict Poker
New Plains Review, Spring 2024
An incarcerated man facing a life sentence enters a deadly game so to win $500, enough to buy himself an iPod and listen to Billie Holiday.
The Definition
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
In the tradition of Raymond Carver and Nathan Englander, when four friends spot a Trump flag on a road trip back to the narrator’s childhood home, it sparks a tense conversation about race.
Troubled Kid
Nude Bruce Review
A middle school girl calls her classmate a “fucking bitch” in English class, but to her surprise, her teacher does not seem interested in punishing her.
The Most Important of the Unimportant Things
ARTWIFE
A woman in Norfolk discovers the cosmic significance of soccer during a first date with the only man who has ever really understood her.
Biogenic Opal and Diatoms
Teach.Write.
Overconfident and self-assured, Will Box thinks he is the best tutor in the writing center. But his confidence is shaken when he is assigned to help a Ph.D. student studying zooplankton in the Amundsen Sea.
Hospital Story
Please See Me
A young man watches his father be receive external defibrillation to restart his heart, leaving him to ponder his own mortality.
Death Trap
Gravity of the Thing
When the evil lich finally defeats the intrepid hero, he finds his victory a little hollow, and life with the hero becomes a very dark and lonely place.
C.H. Stevens 