FICTION
Awards and Nominations
2019 Pushcart Prize nomination, Jane Ciabattari
2016 Pushcart Prize nomination, Monkeybicycle
2016 Best of the Net nomination, Monkeybicycle
2016 Best of the Net nomination, Phoebe
2014 Best of the Net nomination, Foliate Oak
First Runner Up, 2016 Fiction Contest, judged by Joshua Ferris, Phoebe
Longform Pick of the Week
2024
"Petey's Own Personal Jesus," Roi Fainéant Press
2023
"Randall's Commute," BULL
"The Beautiful Girl on the Flying Trapeze," Five South
“Raney’s Imaginary Friend" (reprint), Bulb Culture Collective
interview: BCC Shines a Light On: Jacqueline Doyle
2021
"The Blue-Haired Woman on the Polish Freighter," New World Writing
"Life Without Randall," Midway Journal
2020
"Where Did Sissy Go?." Menacing Hedge
2019
"Her Story," Caustic Frolic (print)
2018
"The Snows of Yesteryear," The Ocean State Review
"Clara at the Bus Station," Fictive Dream
“Charlotte’s Puzzle,” Persimmon Tree
“Raney’s Imaginary Friend,” The Ginger Collect
interview with The Ginger Collect
(no longer archived online)
2017
“The Twelfth Princess” (reprint), Fairy Tales and Folk Tales Re-imagined (Between the Lines Press)
"Just Between Us," Prime Number
2016
“Merry Gentlemen” (reprint), Slush Pile
"My Saints,” Duende
“Winter Afternoon,” Phoebe
First Runner-Up in Phoebe's 2016 Annual Fiction Contest, judged by Joshua Ferris
Nominated for Best of the Net by Phoebe, 2016
“Nola,” Monkeybicycle
Chosen by Ross McMeekin as “The Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week," Ploughshares blog
Nominated for Best of the Net by Monkeybicycle
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Monkeybicycle
“Raymond,” The Boiler
"Easter Mayhem in Wampum," The MacGuffin (print)
2015
“Merry Gentlemen,” DigBoston (print)
"The Secret Life of David McLiddy," East Bay Review
"The Affairs," [PANK]
2014
"Olivia's Ring," Agave Magazine
"Mary Most Contrary," Persimmon Tree
"A Tight Spot," East Bay Review
"Daffodils," Foliate Oak Literary Journal
Nominated for Best of the Net by Foliate Oak
"Heart Trouble," Forge Journal
"Night of the Virgin" (with Stephen D. Gutierrez, under the pen name Alvarado O'Brien), Timber (print)
Timber online, with interview
“Laura,” Tulane Review (print)
"You Never Know," Tampa Review Online
"A Night With No Moon,” Raleigh Review (print)
"Stanton's Grievance," Toad Suck Review (print)
2013
“The Other Woman,” Confrontation (print)
“The Interloper,” Bluestem Quarterly
Pick of the Week in Longform: A Smart Reader
"Moving Day," The Chaffin Journal (print)
“Nadja,” The Milo Review (print)
"The Twelfth Princess," Luna Station Quarterly
"The Postcards," Lunch Ticket
"Light Years Away," Apalachee Review (print)
"Green Bean," Grey Sparrow Journal (Winter 2013)
"November Snowfall," CRATE
2012
"Step Right Up," Word Riot
"The Black Cat," Rosebud Magazine (print)
2011
"A Message from God," California Northern Magazine (print) (excerpt)
"The Accident," Bartleby Snopes
"Louanne's Baby," Front Porch Journal