2025
“Santa Claus???,” Citywide Lunch
“How the Zebra Got Its Stripes,” WORLD HUNGER
“Dragon of the Darkness Flame,” Farewell Transmission
“Bribsy the Rabbit,” DUMBO Press
“The Monkey King,” Rejection Letters
2024
“Song of Joey Widdle,” WORLD HUNGER
“Potential Downside of Replacing Your Eyeballs With Corn on the Cob, X-R-A-Y
“Short Reviews of Things Found in My Apartment,” Defenestration Magazine
“No One Knows About the Termite That Lives in My Left Eye,” A Thin Slice of Anxiety
“The Cows Are Lowing!,” MudRoom
2023
“How to Live a Fulfilled Life,” Roi Fainéant
“My Brain Bleeds Blue Blood,” Variant Literature
“Idiot Thoughts,” A Thin Slice of Anxiety
“My Neighbor Likes to Kill Himself with Guns,” JAKE
“Rocks,” Roi Fainéant
“Dave,” Twin Pies Literary
“Bricks,” Identity Theory
“Paper, Plastic, and Glue,” JAKE
“A Husk,” A Thin Slice of Anxiety (piece originally published in Door is a Jar)
“Dime Mouth,” Roi Fainéant
“What an Answer’s Worth,” Idle Ink
2022 and Prior
“The Leaf That Talked,” BOMBFIRE
“Apart,” A Thin Slice of Anxiety
“How to Write a Perfect Short Story,” Defenestration
“Forgeries of the Self,” Maudlin House
“Moving Paper,” Idle Ink
“John Brooks’ Reclusion Revealed? An Interview with Josh Waterman,” Sublunary Review
“There’s a Mouse in My Room,” Bear Creek Gazette (as Bear Creek only keeps their two most recent issues online, it is no longer available there, and so I have reproduced it on this very website)
“Why I Use Self-Checkout,” JAKE
“A Husk,” Door is a Jar (spring 2022 issue, for purchase only)
“How to Replace Your Finger with a Worm,” Funny-ish
“The Only Sure-fire Way to Get Someone’s Attention,” Two Fifty One
“Navigating Goodbye,” Porridge Magazine
“Poem #0,” Versification
“Night in the Daytime,” Sublunary Review
“A Letter,” Streetcake Magazine (this piece has also been subsequently published to this very website, here)
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