Short Prose

SELECTED FICTION AND NONFICTION (recent)

“The Brazilian Lover” (print only) —short story— in: Fiction International

“The Men on the Fence” —short story— in: TriQuarterly
* nominated for a Pushcart Prize

“Animal Puzzle” (print only) —short story— in: Denver Quarterly
* nominated for a Pushcart Prize

“The Empty Space in Front of Your Hand” —creative nonfiction— in: Green Mountains Review

“The Last Gift” —creative nonfiction— in: Tin House (The Open Bar)

“Dawn” (print only)  —flash fiction— in: Mid-American Review
* finalist for the Fineline Competition

“Walls”  —flash fiction— in: Electric Literature
* longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50

“Clean Hands”  —flash fiction— in: Monkey Bicycle
* nominated for Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net

“Playground”  —flash fiction— in: Bat City Review
* runner up in the short prose contest judged by Ben Fountain

“Woman of the Century”  —flash fiction— in: matchbook
* nominated for a Pushcart Prize and The Best Small Fictions

“Speaking of Ovid”  —flash fiction— in: Connotation Press
* nominated for Best of the Net

“Breathlessness”  —micro fiction— in: Moon Park Review
* selected for the Best Microfiction anthology and nominated for Best of the Net

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PUBLISHED SHORT PROSE, per year, all genres

2019

Forthcoming

•  5 micros (print only) in: Elm Leaves Journal, the Blackout Edition.

Published

• “Gado Gado” —short story— in: JMWW, 2019
• “The Hall of Mirrors at Dusk” (print only) —flash fiction— in: PopShot, 2019
• “Dance Partners” —flash fiction— in: Pidgeonholes, 2019
• “Overdue Elegy” —creative nonfiction— in: Bending Genres, 2019
• “Delusion” —flash fiction— in: Poetry Bay, 2019
• “Swan Lake“(reprint) — flash fiction— in: NFFR, 2019
• “Looking for a Place to Die” — micro fiction — in: Atlas and Alice, 2019

2018

• “The Brazilian Lover” (print only) —short story— in: Fiction International, 2018
• “Clean Hands”  —flash fiction— in: Monkey Bicycle, 2018
  * nominated for Best Small Fictions and Best of the Net
• “Breathlessness”  —micro fiction— in: Moon Park Review, 2018
  * selected for the Best Microfiction anthology and nominated for Best of the Net
• “Field Trip” and “Tabula Rasa” (print only)  —micro fiction— in: Blink Ink, 2018
  * “Tabula Rasa” was nominated for Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions, and a Pushcart Prize.
• “The next” —flash fiction— in: Jellyfish Review, 2018
• “Dutch Neighbors” and “Battle of Brushes” and “Lost and Found” —flash fiction— in: Atticus Review, 2018
  * “Lost and Found” was nominated for Best Microfiction
• “Growing Pains” —flash fiction— in: The Sunlight Press, 2018
  * nominated for Best Small Fictions
• “Amsterdam (online and print) —7 micros/1 short story— in: Heavy Feather Review, Vol 7, 2018
• “Inner Thief” —flash fiction— in: FlashBack Fiction, 2018
• “New Leader” —micro fiction— in: Cheap Pop, 2018
• “Flynn, Fate, and The Friendly Stranger” —flash fiction— in: Spelk, 2018
• “A Tasting of European Chefs” (print only) —flash fiction— in: Ripening, National Flash Fiction Anthology, 2018
• “How to Kill Your Grandmother” (print only) —flash fiction— in: Flash: the short-short story magazine, Vol 10, Nr 2, 2017 (2018)
• “Matter of Time”  —micro fiction— in: New Flash Fiction Review, 2018
• “Limbo Land” —flash fiction— in: Lost Balloon, 2018
• “Four Stories” —micro and flash fiction— in Flash Boulevard.
•  Interview with Michelle Elvy in NFFR, 2018
• “New Micro-Norton Anthology“—review—in: Gravel, 2018
• “Nothing Short Of” —review— in: JMWW, 2018

2017

• “The Men on the Fence”—short story—in: TriQuarterly, 2017
  * nominated for a Pushcart Prize
• “Dawn” (print only)  —flash fiction— in: Mid-American Review, issue 38.1, fall 2017
  * finalist for the Fineline Competition
• “Playground”  —flash fiction— in: Bat City Review, 2017
  * runner up in the short prose contest judged by Ben Fountain
• “On Her Skin” (subscription only)—short story—in: The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review, 2017
• “Beach Bodies” (print only) —creative nonfiction—  in: Room Magazine, 40.3—Migration Issue, 2017
• “Possible Reactions” (print only) —creative nonfiction—  in: The Pinch, issue 37.2, 2017
• “The Gravity of Air” —creative nonfiction— in: The Forge, 2017
• “Con Artists” (online and print) —creative nonfiction— in: Litro UK, July—Alternative Facts Issue, 2017
• “Woman of the Century”  —flash fiction— in: matchbook, 2017
  * nominated for a Pushcart Prize and The Best Small Fictions
• “Speaking of Ovid”  —flash fiction— in: Connotation Press, 2017
  * nominated for Best of the Net
• “The Anxious One”  —flash fiction— in: Connotation Press, 2017
  * nominated for The Best Small Fictions
• “The Killer”  —micro fiction— in: Connotation Press, 2017
• “Office Women: Three Portraits and Thirteen Questions”  —flash fiction— in: Necessary Fiction, 2017
• “Snapshots of Yesterday’s Tomorrow” (print only)  —micro fiction— in: Tears in the Fence, summer issue, 2017
  * third prize winner in the flash fiction competition
• “The Hardest Thing”  —flash fiction— in: Iron Horse, PhotoFinish 2017
  * finalist in the flash fiction competition
• “Swing State” (print only)  —flash fiction— in: Sleep is a Beautiful Colour, National Flash Fiction Anthology, 2017
• “Specialties + Meteorological Rest + How to Kill a Rose + Sunflowers” —4 micros— in: New World Writing, 2017
• “Spring Cleaning” (scroll to June 10th of 2017)  —micro fiction—in: National Flash Fiction Day NZ, 2017
  * longlisted for the Micro Madness competition
• “One-Way Family”  —flash fiction— in: (b)OINK, 2017
• “Classic Woman”  —flash fiction— in: Whiskey Paper, 2017
• “The Spider and I”  —micro fiction— in: Cheap Pop, 2017
• “Papers”  —micro fiction—in: The Offing, 2017
• “Seven Causes of my Mother’s Bicycle Accident”  —flash fiction—in: Flash Frontier, 2017
• “Atmospheric Betrayal”  —micro fiction— in: Blue Fifth Review—Blue Five Notebook Series, 2017
• “Liabilities”  —flash fiction— in: Pithead Chapel, 2017
• “Swan Lake”  —flash fiction— in: Vestal Review, 2017
  * readers’ favorite
• “Aurora, Giselle, Jasmine” (print only)  —micro fiction— in: Blink Ink, 2017
• “Wait Till You See Me Dance” —review— in: Heavy Feather Review, 2017
• “Top Ten (plus one) Best (Dead) Father Flashes” —blog listicle— in: SmokeLong Quarterly, 2017

2016

• “Animal Puzzle” (print only)—short story—in: Denver Quarterly, Vol 50, Nr 4, 2016
  * nominated for a Pushcart Prize
• “Walls”  —flash fiction— in: Electric Literature (Okey-Panky), 2016
  * longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50
• “The Empty Space in Front of Your Hand” in: Green Mountains Review, 2016
• “The Last Gift” —creative nonfiction— in: Tin House (The Open Bar), 2016
• “Playing the sports fan” —creative nonfiction— in: Prairie Schooner, 2016
• “Copycat”  —flash fiction— in: SmokeLong Quarterly, 2016
• “Woman of the Week”  —flash fiction— in: matchbook, 2016
  * republished in the anthology WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, 2018
• “Surfacing” (print only)—short story—in: FOLIO, Vol 31, 2016
• “The Alps in Fall Time”—short story—in: Mikrokosmos Literary Journal, 2016
• “The Writer and Her Time” —creative nonfiction— in: Fiction Southeast, 2016
• “Fraying” —creative nonfiction— in: Atticus Review, 2016
• “Back to Back” —creative nonfiction— in: Word Riot, 2016 (now defunct), re-published in Flash Boulevard.
  * republished in the anthology WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, 2018
• “Fistfuls”  —flash fiction— in: Superstition Review, Issue 17, 2016
  * with a podcast on writing this story
• “Brunch”  —flash fiction— in: Jellyfish Review, 2016
• “Snails and Oysters”  —flash fiction— in: Hermeneutic Chaos, 2015 (now defunct), re-published in Flash Boulevard.
   * nominated for The Best Small Fictions
• “The Path to the Future”  —flash fiction— in: Pinball, 2016 (now defunct)
• “The Efficient Lover”  —micro fiction— in: Knee-Jerk, 2016
• “Locked In, Locked Out”  —flash fiction— in: Vending Machine Press, 2016
• “Message from the Forest”  —flash fiction— in: Litro UK, 2016
• “The World on Fire”  —micro fiction— in: Crack the Spine, 2016
   * selected for Best of print anthology, Vol XIV
• “Earthquake”  —micro fiction— in: Unbroken, 2016
• “Flash Addiction” —blog column— in: SmokeLong Quarterly, 2016
• “Condensed to Flash: World Classics” —review— in: JMWW, 2016

2015 

• “The Mindreader”  —flash fiction— in: Hobart, 2015
  * my first publication in English
• “Her Face in the Glass” (print only)  —flash fiction— in: Flash: the short-short story magazine, Vol 8, Nr 2, 2015
• “The Hunter at the End of the Day”  —flash fiction— in: Hobart, Erotica Special, 2015
• “Ham&Cheese” +“Divorced and in Love”  —micro fiction— in: Literary Orphans, 2015
• “A Ball is a Ball”  —micro fiction— in: Minor Literature[s],  2015
• “An Interesting Case”  —flash fiction— in: Toasted Cheese, 2015
  
• “Dimensions”  —creative nonfiction— in: The Missing Slate, 2015
  * republished in the anthology WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, 2018
• “Baseball & Wine”  —micro fiction— in: Pidgeonholes,  2015
• “The Realist”  —micro fiction— in: Boston Literary, 2015

PUBLICATIONS in DUTCH and TRANSLATIONS (before 2015)

• “Hoe de muur onder mijn hand verkruimelde” (short story) in:
  25 under 35, stories by young & promising Dutch and Flemish authors,
  an anthology edited by Said El Haji & Annelies Verbeke.
• “Beauté” (essay) and “Amour” (short story) in French translation in: Deshima
  Available in PDF: “Beauté” and “Amour“
• “De Gang van Zaken” (short story) in: Deus Ex Machina
• “Hôtel Lutetia” (essay) in: En Route. Available in PDF: Hôtel Lutetia
• “Het allerliefste Hoofd” (short story) in the anthology: Fasten Your Seat Belt.
• “Een leven zonder klok” (essay) in: Flow. PDF: Een leven zonder klok
• “De dood als zelfbehoud” (essay) in: HP De Tijd. PDF: De dood als zelfbehoud
• Dromen van surrealisme (essay) in: Filosofie Magazine. PDF: Dromen van Surrealisme
• “Wat ik mis, creëer ik” (interview with French singer-songwriter Thomas Boulard) in: WahWah
  
• “Eliott Smith” (essay) in: WahWah, special edition Groeten van Rottumerplaat
  an anthology edited by Joost Zwagerman
• “De vermenigvuldiging van Valerie” (short story) in: De Verleiding
  an anthology edited by Susan Smit and Siska Mulder
• “Wachten op Gregor” (short story) in: Durante
• Regular column in: Bureau de Helling (an exchange with politician Hagar Roijackers)
• Flash essays in: Filosofie Kalender. Available here and here.
• Columns and articles in: local and national newspapers