Georgia O’Keeffe and the Angel of Death
The Idaho Review, April 2023
“Her favourite tarot spread was the Celtic Cross. She’d been doing her daily readings locked in the bathroom of their Airbnb, and that morning, she’d drawn Death first…”
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The Kingdom of the Shades
Carve Magazine, October 2021
This story won an Editors’ Choice Award in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. “It’s eleven o’clock at night in Rome, which means it’s ten o’clock back home in London…”
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Pros and Cons of Being a Trailing Spouse
The Mays Anthology, May 2021
“Con: You’re defined as a trailing spouse by the Company if you move abroad for your partner’s job, whether you’re married or not. Anne and I are not married…”
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Monsters Make Monsters
The London Magazine, August 2020
“I was the pretty sister. I was the good one, too. Some people said Jackie was the good sister, but that was to compensate for her moving 7,450 miles away from home to save the world…”
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Strip the Willow
The London Magazine, June 2020
“Leanne rinses her mouth out and spits. She feels a lot better, and she should. Her hair is right and her white dress is right and her mother’s old pearls make her skin look expensive…”
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Our Agent at Dawn
Granta, April 2019
“I run out of the hotel and down the Boulevard de la Reine. I breathe in for four steps and out for four steps. After I kill my husband I’ll go to Graceland and play guitar and be revered…”
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Taking Khayrah to Cambridge
Ambit, January 2018
“Khayrah taught me: that there is an app that tells you where Mecca is; that the Master's assistant's eyebrows are on fleek; that her nani is a witch, and not in the good way...”
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Texas Is Not a Desert
American Chordata, Spring 2017
“Behind Father Paul, the altar drips gold. Hayden already did gold on her bridesmaids, but bless her heart, I’ll do it better. I want the oldest church and the biggest choir and the cutest veil...”
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Want to Escape the City?
Litro, March 2017
“I slept with A. Then I slept with C. Then I slept with S. Then I slept with T. Then I slept with N. Then I slept with K. Then my mother died and I moved to Barcelona...”
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Term
3:AM Press, November 2013
Term was a chapbook of experimental short fiction illustrated by Christiana Spens. It was published by 3:AM Press in a limited print run, and was distributed by Galley Beggar Press.
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