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Non-Fiction

Essays

The Breakdown of Being “Too”

Interviews

W/Andrea Johnson at Apex Magazine concerning “To Seek Himself Again”

Conversation with Jason Sizemore at Apex Magazine

Reviews

Wendy, Darling by A C Wise at Apex Magazine Issue 131

The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler at Apex Magazine Issue 127

Apocalypse Cancelled edited by Luke Melia at Apex Magazine Issue 124

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All I could claim as remembrance, for Hima had been too young—still only a child, with only a child’s two-part name—for a stone carving to hold her spirit. Too young for even an apprentice like Mahivo to bother setting to stone, as practice. Her shade, if it still existed, had been too small, too thin to be bonded with a carving for a second-life.

So she’d never received one.

~ "Turn to Stone Ourselves (in Beneath Ceaseless Skies)

They left me to drown, sea salt clinging to the back of my throat.

I could hear the rolling rhythm of their rowing chants, drowning out my cries as succinctly as the sea would soon drown me.

~"All the Boys in the Sea" (in Fireside)

Sometimes, and I’m stressing the sometimes, wishes muttered within my hearing come true. I’ve invested in a good set of earbuds, noise-cancelling headphones, and have an over-spilling jar of earplugs, yet accidents still happen.

“Wish you’d always be my Dasher,” this young guy in a neon orange slouch hat says and I swear if he could blow me a winky-kissy-face emoji he would.

~ "Delivery for 3C at Song View" (in Diabolical Plots)

We had a grave sitting in the middle of our house that only we believed in.

~ "Your Space Between" (in Apex Magazine)

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