Rainbow Sprinkles
(Novelette)
A young, pregnant widow finds herself caught between two very different women—her unreliable mother and her composed mother-in-law—as she grieves her husband and stumbles into motherhood alone.
This story was the grand prize winner of TulipTree Review‘s 2025 Wild Women Contest and earned a Pushcart Prize nomination.
In the Weeds
Running in the Rain, or from Grief
(Poetry)
Two poems that explore the experience of enduring, whether through the quiet weight of motherhood or the raw, relentless push through grief.
Three Minutes
(Flash Fiction)
A woman’s three-minute pregnancy test wait unravels into a spiral of bargaining, grief, and relief… told in real time, so the reader waits alongside her.
Movement
(Short Story)
A college senior quarantined with her sharp-tongued grandmother during the early days of COVID finds that her grandmother’s stubborn insistence on one last adventure to the ocean is less about the beach than it is about time running out.
This story won first place at the 2024 Books by the Banks festival in the Adult Prose category.
The Lunch Bunch
(Short Story)
A retiring teacher’s habit of eating alone quietly transforms into an unlikely sanctuary for a classroom of misfit students, led by one quiet boy who just needed somewhere safe to eat his lunch.
This story won second place at the 2025 Books by the Banks festival in the Adult Prose category.
