A Storyteller's Paradise

as published in Fiction, FICTION, Inc. No. 66, 2023, Pgs. 173-76 *Winner* of The Stark Award in Fiction in Honor of Henry R. Roth at CCNY...

*Winner* of the 2022 James Tolan creative non-fiction student writing award at BMCC The sweat beaded on my forehead, collecting on my...

During those final days of summer when the sun played across our skin, but the muck of the humidity was too strong to manage, my mother...

My dearest Henrietta, A strange boy visited me in the night. You would have been so proud. I saw his shadow move in the light of the moon...

Pins and needles worked their way up Ted’s arm, rousing him from a drifting sleep and pulling up a vague memory of the one time he tried...

The water beckoned me in with its clear azure waves; lichen and seaweed blanketing the ocean floor in sprawling fingers that reached out...

Charles chose his seat wisely. There were no official rules or methods of how to sit on the train, but for Charles, he sensed a cosmic...

We found a house on a block that looked like it hadn't been touched in years; the shutters still hanging on like new, the windows...

*Winner* of The Goodman Fund Short Story Award at CCNY Tate was comforted by the neat rows of books that stretched on and on, back into...

Samantha cruised down the sidewalk, passing by the old Victorian homes that lined the street, stepping over cracks that spread across the...