Short Prose

SELECTED SHORT FICTION AND NONFICTION 

“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

“Of Lace and Limitations” (print only) —short story— in: Prairie Schooner

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

“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)

“The Cost of Living” —flash fiction— in: The Rupture (The Collagist)

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

“New Leader” —flash fiction— in: Cheap Pop
* Selected for the Wigleaf Top 50

“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
* longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50

“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

“Stella Is” (print only) —micro fiction— in: The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang
* selected by judge Amber Sparks (and editors Meg Pokrass & Gary Fincke) for the Best Microfictions anthology 2021 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions

“Breathlessness”  —micro fiction— in: Moon Park Review
* selected for the Best Microfiction anthology and nominated for Best of the Net. Katherine Valdez: “At just 49 words, quite possibly the shortest horror story you’ll ever love.”


PUBLISHED SHORT PROSE, per year, all genres

2021

  • “If You Think Stars Can’t Clap You’re Not Listening” (print only)—flash fiction—in: Legerdemain, the National Flash Fiction Anthology 2021
  • “Stella Is” (print only) —micro fiction— in: Best Microfictions Anthology 2021 (the story originally appeared in The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang)
  • “Ugly Thing“—flash fiction— in: New Flash Fiction Review, 2021
  • “Twins” —micro fiction— in: Flash Frontier, 2021
  • “The Captain” and “Like the Rise and Fall of Breathing” (print only)—micro fiction—in: Blink Ink, 2021

2020

2019

  • “The Cost of Living” —flash fiction— in: The Rupture (The Collagist), 2019
  • “Gado Gado” —short story— in: JMWW, 2019
  • “Retracing” — flash fiction, Special Feature “Place”— in: New Flash Fiction Review, 2019
  • “Musical Chairs” (print only) —micro fiction— in: The Mambo Academy of Kitty Wang, 2019
    * nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction
  • “Dance Partners” —flash fiction— in: Pidgeonholes, 2019
  • “Guidelines for Non-Americans on Writing a Classic American Story—flash fiction—in: Miracle Monocle
  • “The Hall of Mirrors at Dusk” (print only) —flash fiction— in: PopShot, 2019
  • 5 micros (print only) in: Elm Leaves Journal, the Blackout Edition.
  • “Overdue Elegy” —creative nonfiction— in: Bending Genres, 2019
    * Selected for The Bending Genres Anthology – 2018/2019
  • “Double Life” —flash fiction— in: Connotation Press, 2019
  • “Forest of Friends” —flash fiction— in: Ghost Parachute, 2019
  • “Delusion” —flash fiction— in: Poetry Bay, 2019
  • “Swan Lake” (reprint) — flash fiction— in: New Flash Fiction Review, 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
  • “New Leader” —micro fiction— in: Cheap Pop, 2018
    * Selected for the Wigleaf Top 50
  • “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
  • “Limbo Land” —flash fiction— in: Lost Balloon, 2018
    * longlisted for The Wigleaf Top 50
  • “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.
  • “Growing Pains” —flash fiction— in: The Sunlight Press, 2018
    * nominated for Best Small Fictions
  • “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
  • “Amsterdam (online and print) —7 micros/1 short story— in: Heavy Feather Review, Vol 7, 2018
  • “Inner Thief” —flash fiction— in: FlashBack Fiction, 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
    * Translated into Bulgarian by Kapka Nilan.
  • “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
  • “Four Stories” —micro and flash fiction— in Flash Boulevard.
  •  Interview with Michelle Elvy in NFFR, 2018
  • “New Micro-Norton Anthology”—review—in: Gravel, 2018 (defunct)
  • “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”—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 with subscription only & 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”—micro fiction—in: National Flash Fiction Day NZ, 2017
    * longlisted for the Micro Madness competition
  • “One-Way Family”  —flash fiction— in: (b)OINK, 2017 (defunct)
  • “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 (defunct)
    * republished 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 (defunct)
    * republished in Flash Boulevard
    * nominated for The Best Small Fictions
  • “The Path to the Future”  —flash fiction— in: Pinball, 2016 (defunct)
  • “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