Fiction
“The love child of Joe Meno and Joan Didion.” – Jason Pettus of The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography
“There are no B-side stories in this collection — they’re all hitmakers.” – Katherine Scott Nelson, author of Have You Seen Me
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“We called ourselves The Hand Jobs, refusing to change our name for the high school talent show. Even after our principal threatened us with in-school suspension just for trying out under the name, our punk ethos led us out the door.”
“Everything that hangs on to Annie clings onto her. Superfluous and unnecessary, she hardly notices its weight.”
“‘They get out of three classes to do that,’ Libby says. Catherine lifts her head from her lunch to view the commotion across the way in the Student Commons. Sprawled across a folding lunch table, a group of teens are quietly interacting with a large man dressed in military camoflauge.”
Sometimes I Wake Up Questioning my Sanity
“Like the other day, for example, I awoke from a dream where giraffes were dying their fur brown while carrying machine guns in their hand. And yesterday, I dreamt that I was on death row, looking to my second grade teacher to confess me innocence.”
“I don’t think paying your bills gets you into heaven because I never paid mine.My mortgage payment and my credit card debt were left on my kitchen table when I was grabbed by my bare arm and pulled into a New York alley.”
“The morning light shines through the apartment complex. The illuminated dust, which remains the only source of movement in the restless environment, floats downward. She does not know why she remains tired after ten hours of sleep. “
