Selected Recent(ish) Stories

• “Chance Me,” Electric Literature
• “Teacher,” Arkansas International (received Special Mention in Best American Short Stories 2020)
• “Six Tales of Drowning,” NELLE
• “Paradise Lodge,” American Short Fiction, Issue 61 (received Special Mention in Best American Short Stories 2017)
• “The City on the Other Coast,” Indiana Review (received Special Mention in Best American Short Stories 2017)
• “Norwegian for Troll,” Glimmer Train
• “Mermaid and Knife,” Gulf Coast (received Special Mention in Best American Short Stories 2016)

Selected Flash Fiction

• “Estrellita,” failbetter.  Read it here
• “In Our Country,” Waxwing. Read it here
• “70 Sentences Duolingo.com Believes I Will Need to Know in Spanish,” CHEAP POP. Read it here
• “Herzenboogen’s Theory of Collective Truth” Café Irreal. Read it here
• “On the Oregon Trail,”Hobart. Read it here

Selected Stories, pre-2015

• “Sun City,” The New Yorker (To read a short interview about the story, go here) 
• “Life Among the Terranauts,” One Story
• “Steal Small,” The Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses 2011, ed. Bill Henderson. Story originally published in Prairie Schooner
• “The Sleep,” The Best American Short Stories 2011, eds. Geraldine Brooks and Heidi Pitlor. Story originally published as an Atlantic Fiction for Kindle download 
• “The Lion Gate,” West Branch. Read it online in the Barcelona Review.  
• “This Is Not Your City,” The PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, ed. Laura Furman.  Story originally published in Third Coast
• “Zolaria,” The Southern Review. Read it here: Zolaria .pdf
• “At the Zoo,” The Paris Review 
• “It Looks Like This,” Blackbird. (read it here. It has pictures.)
• “In the Gulf of Aden, Past the Cape of Guardafui,” The Gettysburg Review.
• “Going to Estonia,” Tin House
• “Embodied,” The Cincinnati Review  (My first story acceptance: thanks forever, Cincinnati Review.)