• "The Plath Girls", The New Quarterly, 177, Winter 2026

• "Ross B",  Story Magazine, 18, Winter 2024

• “The Chrysalis”, long con magazine, 5, December 2020

• “Clothesline”, Story Magazine, 6, Fall/Winter 2019

• “Metaficting at Joshua Tree”, The Antigonish Review, 183, Autumn 2015

• “Cowboys and Indians”, The New Orphic Review, 12(1), Spring 2009

• “Finnisterra”, The Nashwaak Review, 12-13, Fall 2003/Winter 2004

• “Palace”, Grain Magazine, 29(1), Summer 2001

'You’re sitting under a Joshua tree in the park of the same name, sand in your shoes and 

you can’t find a corkscrew to open the wine. You’ve been given a line: while walking 

home along her usual route, Sophie had the feeling that something had changed. You’re 

a fiction writer and lines like this lead to metafiction, just as stream-of-consciousness 

driving leads to dirt roads off the map. You need drugs to do something with this line.

'To the south, over the Little San Bernardino Mountains and the San Andreas Fault, 

lie the Chocolate Mountains and the Salton Sea. You let the sound of them roll off 

your tongue—Chocolate Mountains, Salton Sea. Whoever Sophie is, she has no idea 

that you’ve flown the coop, headed south. She’s back in Vancouver, or maybe Calgary, 

obstinately trundling home along her usual route, when for years she’s been dying to 

take another one...'

from Metaficting at Joshua Tree