Periodical Bibliography
"You, Yes, You." Writer's Digest (Nov./Dec. 2024)
"How It Begins." 50-Word Stories, October 3, 2024.
"Strange Toy." 50-Word Stories, September 10, 2024.
"A Funny Thing Happened When I Fell From the Sky." Writer's Digest (July/Aug. 2024)
"Popcorn." 50-Word Stories, June 11, 2024.
"4 ♥️." Hampton Renaissance, Spring 2024.
"9 ♥️." Hampton Renaissance, Spring 2024.
"Q ♠️." Hampton Renaissance, Spring 2024.
"The Best Magic Trick." 50-Word Stories, May 3, 2024.
"Ice Cream." 50-Word Stories, April 16, 2024.
"What's My Motivation." Writer's Digest (March/April 2024).
"Jaco." 50-Word Stories, March 7, 2024.
"Mother's Notebook." 50-Word Stories, February 26, 2024.
"This Changes Everything." Writer's Digest (Jan./Feb. 2024)
"First Things First: How to Make the Most of First Lines in Microfiction." Writer's Digest (Jan./Feb. 2024)
"Short Punchlines: Writing Humorous Microfiction." Writer's Digest (Nov./Dec. 2023)
"5 Steps to Approach Writing Your Story's Inciting Incident." Writer's Digest (July/August 2023)
"Breathing Life Into Dead Stories." Writer's Digest (March/April 2023)
"Reunion." 50-Word Stories, January 6, 2023.
"Making It Past the First Round." Writer's Digest (Jan./Feb. 2023)
"5 Unconventional Approaches to Winning NaNoWriMo." Writer's Digest (Nov./Dec. 2022)
"The Ghost." 50-Word Stories, November 3, 2022.
"Men in Mourning." 50-Word Stories, October 4, 2022.
"Dancing By Moonlight." 50-Word Stories, September 9, 2022.
"Writing Bite-Size Horror." Writer's Digest (Sept./Oct. 2022)
"Able to Leap Tall Insecurities in a Single Bound." 50-Word Stories, August 8, 2022.
"Seeds." 50-Word Stories, July 8, 2022.
The Best Collections of Microfiction for Those With Limited Time to Read, Shepherd.com, June 2022.
"The Novelist." The Drabble, May 23, 2022.
"The Diver." A Story in 100 Words, May 4, 2022.
"Balloon." The Hampton Renaissance, May 2022.
"Back to Basics." Writer's Digest (May/June 2022)
"A Pool of Thoughts." The Centifictionist, Spring 2022.
"A Hair Story." The Hampton Renaissance, Spring 2022.
"Searching for Water Where It Never Rains." The Hampton Renaissance, February 2022.
"Lonely." The Hampton Renaissance, Spring 2022.
Q&A With 2022 Virginia Festival of the Book, February 14, 2022.
"Library Dreams." 50-Word Stories. January 24, 2022.
"Beyond the Twilight Zone: Diversity in the Strange." Writer's Digest, Nov./Dec. 2021.
"Ignominious." 101 Words, October 13, 2021.
"Junior's Quick Stop." The Drabble, October 4, 2021.
"Cold." A Story in 100 Words, September 22, 2021.
"10 Reasons to Write 100-Word Stories." Writer's Digest, Sep./Oct. 2021.
"Tunnel of Love." West Branch, No. 96, Spring/Summer 2021.
"Planet 4C." Blind Corner Literary Magazine, Winner of the Afrofuturism Microfiction Contest.
"Absolution." The Centifictionist, Volume 2, Issue 1, May 10, 2021.
"The Comedian." The Centifictionist, Volume 2, Issue 1, May 10, 2021.
"Tears in the Fabric of Us." The Centifictionist, Volume 2, Issue 1, May 10 2021.
"Dumas." The Dribble Drabble Review, Spring 2021.
"Euphonic Cacophony." 50-Word Stories, April 20, 2021.
"The Bibliophile." 50-Word Stories, January 23, 2021.
"Grandma's Photograph." Down in the Dirt Magazine, January 1, 2021.
"All White Male Authors Look Alike." 100 Word Story, December 27, 2020.
"Fear." The Centifictionist, Issue 2, November 2020.
"Colorful." The Dribble Drabble Review, Fall 2020.
"Apocalyptic Ambivalence." Free Flash Fiction, October 24, 2020.
"Drowning." 50-Word Stories, September 11, 2020.
"Death and the Tsunami." The Drabble, September 1, 2020.
"Beaufort." 50-Word Stories, August 6, 2020.
"Cotton Candy Clouds." 50-Word Stories, July 8, 2020.
"Posthumous." Fewer Than 500, July 7, 2020.
"The Libraries." Friday Flash Fiction, July 3, 2020.
NaNoWriMo: Camp Care Package, July 2020.
'Protest in the Time of Covid." 50-Word Stories, June 12, 2020.
"Screamin' Sisyphus." Friday Flash Fiction, May 22, 2020.
"The Other Side of Jefferson." The Drabble, May 21, 2020.
"4 Tips for Writing Short Stories." IngramSpark Blog, May 14, 2020.
"Three Books." A Story in 100 Words, May 12, 2020.
"Buckroe." Microfiction Monday Magazine, 95th Edition, May 2020.
"Numbers." Centifictionist, Vol.1, Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) 2020.
"Eric's Things, Circa 1985." Centifictionist, Vol.1, Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) 2020.
"Tips of the Trade: The Dribble Solution." James River Writers, March 2020.
"The Gift." Friday Flash Fiction, February 21, 2020.
"Infinity." 50-Word Stories, February 10, 2020.
"Ode to an Olivetti." 50-Word Stories, January 6, 2020.
"The Motive." 50-Word Stories, December 16, 2019.
"Dancing in the Light." 50-Word Stories, November 14, 2019.
"The Story They Would One Day Tell Their Children." 50-Word Stories, October 15, 2019.
“An Occurrence at Osceola Avenue." Hunger: The Best of Brilliant Flash Fiction and Beyond, 2014-2019, edited by Dawn Lowe and Ed Higgins, Brilliant Flash Fiction, 2019. (October 8, 2019. More info here.)
"An Epilogue." 50-Word Stories, September 12, 2019.
"How to Train a Beast." 50-Word Stories, August 21, 2019.
"#TPQ: Ran Walker." The Poetry Question, July 31, 2019.
"He's Coming." 50-Word Stories, July 11, 2019.
“Until the End of Time.” 50-Word Stories, June 10, 2019.
"Purple." 50-Word Stories, May 8, 2019.
“The Power of Poetry.” The Poetry Question, April 16, 2019.
"Hitchhikers." Speculative 66, Issue 20, April 6, 2019.
“A Closed Lid.” The Big Windows Review, March 29, 2019.
“Behind His Back.” 50-Word Stories, March 13, 2019.
"More Robot, Please." Blink-Ink, Issue 35, March 2019.
“Cargo.” The Drabble, February 11, 2019.
"Hickory." 50-Word Stories, February 6, 2019.
"Hunting Nightmares." 50-Word Stories, January 4, 2019.
"To Repel Ghosts." Okay Donkey Magazine, December 7, 2018.
"The Smile." 50-Word Stories, December 7, 2018.
"Talons." X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, October 31, 2018.
"Walls." Ellipsis Zine, October 31, 2018.
"The Girl Who Lived On Thursday." Friday Flash Fiction, October 10, 2018.
"Talons." Poppy Road Review, September 10, 2018.
"The Salvatore Grant." Literally Stories, September 6, 2018.
"Instagram Baby." Ariel Chart. September 2, 2018.
"Butter Me Up." 50-Word Stories, August 28, 2018.
“The Monster Inside.” Paragraph Planet, July 28, 2018.
"India On a Distant Shore." Parhelion Literary Magazine, Issue #2. July 2018.
“Heavy.” Better Than Starbucks, Vol. III No. VII., July 2018.
“The Monster.” 50-Word Stories, May 25, 2018.
“Legions: A Kwansaba.” Black Lives Have Always Mattered (anthology), 2Leaf Press, 2017.
“The Film Club.” The Writers Guild of Virginia Anthology Issue 1, 2016.
“An Occurrence at Osceola Avenue.” Brilliant Flash Fiction Sep. 2016.
“Heavy.” Brilliant Flash Fiction Sep. 2016.
“Black Hand Side.” Literary Orphans Literary Journal Spring 2015.
“Remembering Basquiat.” Phati’tude Literary Journal, Winter 2012.
“The Lost Boys of South Bronx.” Phati’tude Literary Journal, Winter 2012.
“Discovering Charles Buckner.” The Saracen Literary Journal. Hampton University, Spring 2010.
“The Ghosts of Natchez: A Kwansaba for Richard Wright” from DrumVoices Revue: Commemorative Richard Wright Edition, 2008.
"Two Hours 'Til the Bell." Aphros, Volume 38, 1998.
"How It Begins." 50-Word Stories, October 3, 2024.
"Strange Toy." 50-Word Stories, September 10, 2024.
"A Funny Thing Happened When I Fell From the Sky." Writer's Digest (July/Aug. 2024)
"Popcorn." 50-Word Stories, June 11, 2024.
"4 ♥️." Hampton Renaissance, Spring 2024.
"9 ♥️." Hampton Renaissance, Spring 2024.
"Q ♠️." Hampton Renaissance, Spring 2024.
"The Best Magic Trick." 50-Word Stories, May 3, 2024.
"Ice Cream." 50-Word Stories, April 16, 2024.
"What's My Motivation." Writer's Digest (March/April 2024).
"Jaco." 50-Word Stories, March 7, 2024.
"Mother's Notebook." 50-Word Stories, February 26, 2024.
"This Changes Everything." Writer's Digest (Jan./Feb. 2024)
"First Things First: How to Make the Most of First Lines in Microfiction." Writer's Digest (Jan./Feb. 2024)
"Short Punchlines: Writing Humorous Microfiction." Writer's Digest (Nov./Dec. 2023)
"5 Steps to Approach Writing Your Story's Inciting Incident." Writer's Digest (July/August 2023)
"Breathing Life Into Dead Stories." Writer's Digest (March/April 2023)
"Reunion." 50-Word Stories, January 6, 2023.
"Making It Past the First Round." Writer's Digest (Jan./Feb. 2023)
"5 Unconventional Approaches to Winning NaNoWriMo." Writer's Digest (Nov./Dec. 2022)
"The Ghost." 50-Word Stories, November 3, 2022.
"Men in Mourning." 50-Word Stories, October 4, 2022.
"Dancing By Moonlight." 50-Word Stories, September 9, 2022.
"Writing Bite-Size Horror." Writer's Digest (Sept./Oct. 2022)
"Able to Leap Tall Insecurities in a Single Bound." 50-Word Stories, August 8, 2022.
"Seeds." 50-Word Stories, July 8, 2022.
The Best Collections of Microfiction for Those With Limited Time to Read, Shepherd.com, June 2022.
"The Novelist." The Drabble, May 23, 2022.
"The Diver." A Story in 100 Words, May 4, 2022.
"Balloon." The Hampton Renaissance, May 2022.
"Back to Basics." Writer's Digest (May/June 2022)
"A Pool of Thoughts." The Centifictionist, Spring 2022.
"A Hair Story." The Hampton Renaissance, Spring 2022.
"Searching for Water Where It Never Rains." The Hampton Renaissance, February 2022.
"Lonely." The Hampton Renaissance, Spring 2022.
Q&A With 2022 Virginia Festival of the Book, February 14, 2022.
"Library Dreams." 50-Word Stories. January 24, 2022.
"Beyond the Twilight Zone: Diversity in the Strange." Writer's Digest, Nov./Dec. 2021.
"Ignominious." 101 Words, October 13, 2021.
"Junior's Quick Stop." The Drabble, October 4, 2021.
"Cold." A Story in 100 Words, September 22, 2021.
"10 Reasons to Write 100-Word Stories." Writer's Digest, Sep./Oct. 2021.
"Tunnel of Love." West Branch, No. 96, Spring/Summer 2021.
"Planet 4C." Blind Corner Literary Magazine, Winner of the Afrofuturism Microfiction Contest.
"Absolution." The Centifictionist, Volume 2, Issue 1, May 10, 2021.
"The Comedian." The Centifictionist, Volume 2, Issue 1, May 10, 2021.
"Tears in the Fabric of Us." The Centifictionist, Volume 2, Issue 1, May 10 2021.
"Dumas." The Dribble Drabble Review, Spring 2021.
"Euphonic Cacophony." 50-Word Stories, April 20, 2021.
"The Bibliophile." 50-Word Stories, January 23, 2021.
"Grandma's Photograph." Down in the Dirt Magazine, January 1, 2021.
"All White Male Authors Look Alike." 100 Word Story, December 27, 2020.
"Fear." The Centifictionist, Issue 2, November 2020.
"Colorful." The Dribble Drabble Review, Fall 2020.
"Apocalyptic Ambivalence." Free Flash Fiction, October 24, 2020.
"Drowning." 50-Word Stories, September 11, 2020.
"Death and the Tsunami." The Drabble, September 1, 2020.
"Beaufort." 50-Word Stories, August 6, 2020.
"Cotton Candy Clouds." 50-Word Stories, July 8, 2020.
"Posthumous." Fewer Than 500, July 7, 2020.
"The Libraries." Friday Flash Fiction, July 3, 2020.
NaNoWriMo: Camp Care Package, July 2020.
'Protest in the Time of Covid." 50-Word Stories, June 12, 2020.
"Screamin' Sisyphus." Friday Flash Fiction, May 22, 2020.
"The Other Side of Jefferson." The Drabble, May 21, 2020.
"4 Tips for Writing Short Stories." IngramSpark Blog, May 14, 2020.
"Three Books." A Story in 100 Words, May 12, 2020.
"Buckroe." Microfiction Monday Magazine, 95th Edition, May 2020.
"Numbers." Centifictionist, Vol.1, Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) 2020.
"Eric's Things, Circa 1985." Centifictionist, Vol.1, Issue 1 (Spring/Summer) 2020.
"Tips of the Trade: The Dribble Solution." James River Writers, March 2020.
"The Gift." Friday Flash Fiction, February 21, 2020.
"Infinity." 50-Word Stories, February 10, 2020.
"Ode to an Olivetti." 50-Word Stories, January 6, 2020.
"The Motive." 50-Word Stories, December 16, 2019.
"Dancing in the Light." 50-Word Stories, November 14, 2019.
"The Story They Would One Day Tell Their Children." 50-Word Stories, October 15, 2019.
“An Occurrence at Osceola Avenue." Hunger: The Best of Brilliant Flash Fiction and Beyond, 2014-2019, edited by Dawn Lowe and Ed Higgins, Brilliant Flash Fiction, 2019. (October 8, 2019. More info here.)
"An Epilogue." 50-Word Stories, September 12, 2019.
"How to Train a Beast." 50-Word Stories, August 21, 2019.
"#TPQ: Ran Walker." The Poetry Question, July 31, 2019.
"He's Coming." 50-Word Stories, July 11, 2019.
“Until the End of Time.” 50-Word Stories, June 10, 2019.
"Purple." 50-Word Stories, May 8, 2019.
“The Power of Poetry.” The Poetry Question, April 16, 2019.
"Hitchhikers." Speculative 66, Issue 20, April 6, 2019.
“A Closed Lid.” The Big Windows Review, March 29, 2019.
“Behind His Back.” 50-Word Stories, March 13, 2019.
"More Robot, Please." Blink-Ink, Issue 35, March 2019.
“Cargo.” The Drabble, February 11, 2019.
"Hickory." 50-Word Stories, February 6, 2019.
"Hunting Nightmares." 50-Word Stories, January 4, 2019.
"To Repel Ghosts." Okay Donkey Magazine, December 7, 2018.
"The Smile." 50-Word Stories, December 7, 2018.
"Talons." X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, October 31, 2018.
"Walls." Ellipsis Zine, October 31, 2018.
"The Girl Who Lived On Thursday." Friday Flash Fiction, October 10, 2018.
"Talons." Poppy Road Review, September 10, 2018.
"The Salvatore Grant." Literally Stories, September 6, 2018.
"Instagram Baby." Ariel Chart. September 2, 2018.
"Butter Me Up." 50-Word Stories, August 28, 2018.
“The Monster Inside.” Paragraph Planet, July 28, 2018.
"India On a Distant Shore." Parhelion Literary Magazine, Issue #2. July 2018.
“Heavy.” Better Than Starbucks, Vol. III No. VII., July 2018.
“The Monster.” 50-Word Stories, May 25, 2018.
“Legions: A Kwansaba.” Black Lives Have Always Mattered (anthology), 2Leaf Press, 2017.
“The Film Club.” The Writers Guild of Virginia Anthology Issue 1, 2016.
“An Occurrence at Osceola Avenue.” Brilliant Flash Fiction Sep. 2016.
“Heavy.” Brilliant Flash Fiction Sep. 2016.
“Black Hand Side.” Literary Orphans Literary Journal Spring 2015.
“Remembering Basquiat.” Phati’tude Literary Journal, Winter 2012.
“The Lost Boys of South Bronx.” Phati’tude Literary Journal, Winter 2012.
“Discovering Charles Buckner.” The Saracen Literary Journal. Hampton University, Spring 2010.
“The Ghosts of Natchez: A Kwansaba for Richard Wright” from DrumVoices Revue: Commemorative Richard Wright Edition, 2008.
"Two Hours 'Til the Bell." Aphros, Volume 38, 1998.