Prose

"Whoever Said Go"
No Contact, July 2021

"Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight" (excerpt from the in-progress YA novel Not the Worst of Boys)
The Rumpus, June 2021

"No Hands"
Midnight Breakfast Magazine, May 2021 (excerpt from the in-progress YA novel Not the Worst of Boys), Pushcart Prize Nominated

"Breakdancing Shaped Who I Am As a Black Man and Father"
Catapult Magazine, April 2021

"Retirement" 
​Porcupine Literary, December 2020 

"When Steve Urkel Played Soccer" 
CRAFT Literary, December 2020

"On the Confederate Flag"
Ploughshares Blog, November 2020

"A Middle Finger Flipped on a School Bus"
Pithead Chapel, November 2020

"Or Throw the Football" 
Mythic Picnic Anthology, September 2020 (Redress of Grievances Contest Winner) 

"A Small Lesson on Loitering"
PANK Magazine, August 2o20 

"After-School Basketball Game"
trampset Journal, August 2020

"Frontier Mother"
JMWW Journal, August 2020. Pushcart Prize Nominated 

"Pizza Friday"
Mauldin House, August 2020

"O.J. and the Wax Museum"
Barren Magazine, July 2020, Pushcart Prize Nominated 

"Suicide on the Triples" 
Voyage Journal, July 2020

"In-Between Sirens" 
X-R-A-Y Magazine, June 2020

Excerpt of "The Makings of a Gym Rat" from Life is Like a Hurricane Anthology 
Drunk Monkeys, April 2020

"The Jumps" 
Apiary Magazine, December.2019

"My Mother's Mother"
Split Lip Magazine, January 2017 - Best of the Net Nominated

"But I Am Not Toby"
​Vagabond City, September 2016

"Like Gladiators" & Soundcloud Reading
Tahoma Literary Review, March 2016 - Pushcart Prize Nominated

"Retirement"
East Jasmine Review, March 2016

"Weekend Weather"
Apeiron Review, February 2016

"Shopping with Kevin"
Harpoon Review, September 2015 - Pushcart Prize Nominated

"A Reconstruction of Great Great Grandfather"
Connotation Press, May 2015

"Alabama Fire Ants"
Portland Review, November 2014

"Contradictions and Compliments with Frictions"
PaleHouse, October 2010