Short Stories
"God Will Teach Me to Swim" in North Lit Review, forthcoming
“Water Speaks Slowly” in The Militant Grammarian, July 7, 2026
“Thunder North” in The Barcelona Review, issue 115
“The Neanderthal and the Butler” in Penstricken, forthcoming
“Cooper’s Cool Mama” in Postbox Magazine, forthcoming
“Slowly Waving Goodbye” in Barely South Review, forthcoming
“So Glad to See You” in Starved Anthology, from Culture Cult Press, January 2026
“The Day That Pretended to Be Here” in Persephone Literary Magazine, January 2026, volume 3
“People Who Scream” in Bookends Review, April 17, 2026
“A Fire Like the Sun” in Green Silk Journal, Fall 2025
“Perfect Vision” in Water Your Cellphone, October 7, 2025
“A Boy Who Thinks Quite a Deal” in The Good Life Review, October 2025
“Talking About the Meaning of Life Without Using Too Many Words” in Little Old Lady, August 28, 2025
“The Only Person in the World” in Southern Quill, 2025, 74th edition
“From the Mother Sky” in Avalon Literary Journal, Winter 2025
“The Eyes Are Meeker Than They Were” in The Hemlock, 2024, Winter Issue
“Why MCA?” in Northeast Georgia Writers Club Anthology, 2024 (first place award)
“The Price of Angels” in Brussels Review, Fall 2024
“A Sharp Knife for Cutting Limes” in Literally Stories, November 11, 2024
“A Surprise for God” in Cable Street, July 14, 2024
“United We Jazz” in The Galway Review, July 3, 2024
“People From the Future” in Fjords Review, November 2023
“Vulcan Huns” in Paterson Literary Review, 2024, issue 52
“Cultivation of Culturedness” in Defenestration, December 2023
Poetry
“Georgia Aquarium” in Georgia Bards Poetry Anthology, 2026
“She Is Here and Not Here” in Carmina Magazine, September 2025
“The Garden of Forgetting” in Thirteen Myna Birds, April 17, 2025
“The Way of Amadeus” in Broken Spine, Selected Poetry, 2025, Spring issue
“When the Internet Goes Down” in Symphonies of Imagination, 2025, Winter issue 3
“Temple of Apollo” in Mediterranean Poetry, November 25, 2024
“The Water That Never Stops Talking” in Northeast Georgia Writers Club Anthology, 2024 (first place award)
“Crabapple Trees” in Mudfish, 2024, Summer
“Benefits of Illumination” in The Chamber Magazine, September 2023
Essay
The Southern Quandary of Being OK but Southern
Essay, published in Weber Journal, Summer 2000
Four young men go to Atlantic City to gamble and relax, but they discover that having fun doesn’t happen just because you want it to in “Everyone’s a Winner Here.” A woman out wandering at night stops in a diner and tells a story of her mother as a little girl, lost at a frightening carnival in “A Night at the Carnival.” A man travels to Earth to receive a new heart and finds much more than he expected in “A New Piece for Cello.” In these and other stories, readers of the collected tales in I’d Tear Down the Stars will enter worlds where simply being human is challenging enough...but then things happen anyway.
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Searching for a letter from Catherine the Great, cousins Paul Gildbridge and Luke Pharo wander through the summer streets of Charleston, South Carolina. As their search takes them from the city and out onto the islands, they begin to wonder whether the letter ever existed or where this quest could take them. Following a trail that at times seems illusory, Luke comes to realize that he is on a spiritual search, partially initiated by a witch he met several times in Moscow when he was living in Russia.
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