I love how both of these stories are tied up in my 15 years at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
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I’ve posted a bunch more photos to social media, but here are some of the best pictures from the trip.
These are my activities at TriCon: The Trident Conference for Speculative Fiction: Friday, 15 May 2026, 1 pm: Moderator, Going Solo: Publishing Without an Agent, with
Two new stories came out online last month: “The Candy Aisle” and “Water Rights.”
Aether and Ego cover reveal!
Came home from an afternoon at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic to find that Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal’s Issue 15 just came out with my haiku.
Aether and Ego is available for pre-order!
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Excited to see three of my erasures at manywor(l)ds today!
As you might expect, a recipe for banana almond muffins.
Excited to see my haiku “finding the prank googly eyes” show up at Haikuniverse today!