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​Fold

"His body isn’t really a body, so it doesn’t need sleep, but Shepherd hasn’t figured this out yet."
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Outlook Springs
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​Ashes


"My dear, I must have been dreaming."
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Fairy Tale Review


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Dissolve


"The beginning isn’t important, I tell Serena. What’s important is the curse. Sometimes the princess has a chance to save herself. Sometimes the curse comes from within. "
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Hunger Mountain
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​​Wonder-Breathing

"In the last moments of Lily Bramble’s life, she gave her boyfriend his first kiss."
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Redivider
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Under the Bed

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The mouse king rides in her hair as she swims, so she has to keep her head above the water."
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The Wisconsin Review
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Watch Over Me


"The sign by the dead man in the palace by the lagoon says, Watch over me."
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Quick Fiction
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The Glass Mountain

"I didn't really want Gnome to kiss me. I wanted him to let me sleep in his lap like a sister."
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The Greensboro Review
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​You Are Not My Husband


"What you want is not a mystery. You’ve never been good at keeping secrets."   
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Bandersnatch
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Morphogenesis


“Morphogenesis is the shaping of root and shoot systems in plants. We don’t know why it’s happening in your fingers.”    
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Other Voices
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The Museum of Lost and Found


"Benson’s greatest secret wish was that he’d walk down the long corridor of Relics of the Catholic Church, and there next to the shroud of St. Elizabeth, he would find that one orange mitten he’d lost in the third grade."

The Literary Review
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Perennials

"The garden would not grow."
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Small Spiral Notebook
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