Fiction:

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"The Boy and the Music Teacher"
Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, Vol. 19, Issue 4 (December 2025), pp. 76-82

It didn’t help that the music classroom was on the basement level. This added to
​the feeling James got of descending into a nether world every Wednesday at 10:45 A.M. . . .

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"No Respecter of Lines"
Bulb Culture Collection, May 2, 2025
previously published in ​The Halcyone, vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 2020, pp. 17-20
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Dr. Giannini never says no to anyone, which is why his waiting room
​is always packed and noisy . . .

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"As High as the Pyramids"
The Westchester Review, Summer 2022
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Kevin McGrath was the first to step off the school bus. He stopped, stared, and murmured to himself. The other kids swarmed past him, not noticing or caring that the Intermediate School 51 Annex—its full name—looked exactly like a prison . . .

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"Cabinet Jesus"
Evening Street Review, Number 31, Autumn 2021, pp. 91-100.
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 Last night I talked my parents into going to the late-morning Mass. "Is that what
they teach you in college?" my father asked. "To sleep late?" . . .

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​​"The Bracelet"
Touchstone Literary Magazine, Spring 2021
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​Loretta's mother's gold charm bracelet hung on a stranger's wrist . . .  

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"The Ferry"
La Piccioletta Barca, Issue 22

Wrapped in a milk-thick fog, the ferry seemed to exist alone in the universe . . .

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"Cat in the Road, 1978"
Sangam Literary Magazine, Fall 2020

​The two girls sat on the curb in front of Annemarie’s house with their
white-toed sneakers flat on the asphalt and their denim knees
​up against their chests . . .

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Poetry:

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drops from her umbrella (tanka poetry)
Inkling Press, Edmonton, Canada, 2006

Halloween
Infant Batman
in my arms
barely aware of this world
that needs saving

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