Published Stories - See Laurie write

The Geology of Grief

Excerpt: “Carrie sits at a small table in the pre-dawn light near her kitchen window and waits for her eggs to boil. On the table, she turns and smooths the pages in a book about rocks and minerals she gave Joshua for his fifteenth birthday, the year he asked for a rock tumbler. She studies each illustration, tracing the edges of the 2D stones with her finger. She imagines texture where there is only smooth paper and colored inks. She imagines papercuts where there are only loops and whorls.”

Published in Moon City Press 2024 and available for purchase here.

Two Stories for National Flash

Fiction Day Write-in 2022

The Way I Choose to Grieve May

Look to Some Like Dying

Draw a Human Figure Without Lifting

Your Pencil

National Flash Fiction Day Write In – June 2022

Photo by Lavi Perchik on Unsplash

Perimenopausal Maleficent

Watches Bob Ross Videos

When She Can’t Sleep

National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood – June 2022

Photo by Gabriel Kraus on Unsplash

Being Married to Blake

Excerpt: “We lived tight and cheap in the single-wide with the single-pane windows and single bathroom and the kids doubled-up in a bedroom smaller than the high school broom closet where Blake gave me my first hickey and daughter number one.“

Published in Snow Crow, the 6th Bath Flash Fiction Anthology (available for purchase here)

Afternoons Spent

Somewhere Between Flying

and Drowning in Grapevine,

Texas

Excerpt: You float naked and dare a neighbor to glance out their kitchen window as they wash out the coffee pot or look up from mulching their raised beds. Just look, you say. Just look at me. You will never look this good naked again. You will never float this effortlessly.

Cloves Literary (defunct) – April 2022

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A view from a car driving at night on a highway with cars ahead getting smaller and smaller in the distance.

Some of your favorite things

aren’t meant to last.

Twin Pies Literary “The Gentle Slope” issue – March 2022

In Lieu of Flowers

New World Writing – January 2022

Proof of Life

Versification Zine (no longer posted online)- November 2021

Some Things You’ll Do When

You Would Rather Be Happy

Winner, 2021 Lascaux Review Flash Fiction Award; Included in Best Small Fictions 2022
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