Fiction

“The Town: Monument,” SAND, 2023

Our town is considered a gem in a region with not much else to recommend it. Built in the days when people still knew where things began and ended, it occupies a neat square. Beyond the eastern edge is an empty field. That is where, to honor our town’s hundredth anniversary, the council built The Town: a life-sized model of our town, exact down to the smallest detail.

“Genesis, Revised,” Blood Orange Review, 2022

When the Lord God saw that the man and the woman had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge, he made garments of skins for them and clothed them. He cursed the woman to suffer great pain in childbirth, and He cursed the man to suffer great pain by working the earth from which he had been taken. And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the Tree of Life and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden.