Publications

Short Stories

"If You Want Me." Lost Contact. Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing (ed. Max Booth III and Lori Michelle). November 2021

"To My (Final) Girl." Fantasy Magazine. July 2021

"The Thing in the Side Room." Lost Films. Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing (ed. Max Booth III and Lori Michelle). August 2018

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