So Where Are the Stories?
Itching to read something I’ve written? The following links will take you to my online publications. Check back–this is a work in progress!
Creative Nonfiction
Disturbances, forthcoming in Autofocus Lit
Rearview (The Citron Review)
Every Other Weekend: A Diptych p.29 (Inkwell)
Melons (Pithead Chapel)
Suckers (Flash Boulevard)
Long Distance Diptych (Flash Boulevard)
Toxic Stones (Miracle Monocle)
(Re)Surfacing (Sundog Lit)
Everything Leads Back to Where it Starts (Longridge Review – finalist for 2022’s Barnhill Prize & nominated for Pushcart Prize)
Drifting (Roi Fainéant)
Pride (Friday Flash Fiction – 100-word story)
Roots (Bending Genres)
Preserves (Schuylkill Valley Journal)
Old Maid’s Puzzle (reprinted in Doubleback Review)
Parentheses (Pithead Chapel)
Barefoot Diptych (The Citron Review)
Images (Rappahannock Review)
For the Love of (Dis)Order (Atlas & Alice)
Trespasses and Small Rebellions (HerStry)
Walls [(mac)ro(mic)]
The Heat (Burningword Literary Journal)
Gravel (Lunch Ticket)
Bridges: A Triptych (White Wall Review)
Code of Conduct (Pithead Chapel)
The Party (Crack the Spine)
Foreigner (X-R-A-Y Lit)
Planting Seeds (The Nasiona)
Almost Powerful (JMWW)
The Importance of Lighting in Relationships (CutBank–Short-listed for the 2019 Big Sky, Small Prose Contest)
What Matters Most (The Common)
Keeping Vigil (Glint)
On Suffering (The Nasiona)
School Girl’s Puzzle (Bending Genres) Made The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2020
Home is Beyond the Horizon (Bank Spaces: to order, click this link)
Monkey Wrench (Atlas and Alice, nominated for Best of the Net 2020)
Grounded/Rooted: A Diptych (Barren Magazine)
Remember the Magic (Bending Genres)
Saturday Afternoon: Three Views (The Nasiona)
Men Teach Me to Shoot (The Nasiona)
Choosing Stones (Oyster River Pages)
Soap Opera, Starring Rachel Kim (originally published in issue 21.1 of Soliloquies Anthology)
Pinholes of Light (Sewer Lid)
The Gods, Looking Down (originally published in filling Station)
Interviews, etc.
Finding the Form: Interview with The New Quarterly, Winter 2022
Interview with Rappahannock Review, Spring 2021
Interview with Oyster River Pages October 2018
Writing Spaces: Rachel Laverdiere, The New Quarterly, Spring 2018
Fiction
Haunting, forthcoming in Underbelly Press
Furniture, forthcoming in Underbelly Press
Almost Plea to My Ex-Therapist, forthcoming in Okay Donkey
Busker Near a Bustling Patio on Prince Arthur in Montréal (Bending Genres)
The Monkey Bars (Anti-Heroin Chic)
The Highway (Raw Lit)
Woman in Red (Paper Dragons)
Andromeda (White Wall Review)
No One is Coming to Save Me (Raw Lit) – Nominated for 2023 Best Microfiction
Ghost Baby (Emerge Literary Journal) – Nominated for 2023 Pushcart Prize
Dancing Girls (Coffin Bell)
The Rucksack is Packed and Hidden in the Pantry (Lunch Ticket)
Empty Pockets (Everyday Fiction)
Opening Doors (Drunk Monkeys)
Father catches my eyes in the rear-view mirror and says, “Make sure Cookie stays clean.” (Five South)
The Humming Man (X-R-A-Y Literary)
The Neighbours (Discretionary Love)
Blue Space (Bending Genres)
The Mailman (Fictional Café)
Nothing Changes. (And Yet Everything Does.) (The Daily Drunk)
Crave (Anti-Heroin Chic)
A Tree Full of Crows (Blanks Spaces and Just Words Volume 2)
Understanding the Semicolon (Transitions)
To Taste the Persimmon (Dime Show Review2 and online)
On the Way to the Roxy (Sulphur)
Just Toss me a Bone, Woman! (Soliloquies Anthology)
The Waiting (untethered)
Self-published 🙂
Poetry
Picasso would have revelled (Spring V)
I Killed my Mother (In Medias Res)
Driftwood (Soliloquies Anthology issue 20.1)
Children Pick Rocks (Oleander Review)
Like Their Mothers and Fathers Before Them (FreeFall)
Wishbone Snap (The New Quarterly)