FLUENCY: A LITERARY ZINE
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Spanning surreal landscapes and time, FLUENCY transports readers to dystopian futures, haunted houses, and the intimate life of a baby-snatching fae. The eight short stories blend elements of horror and myth into their narratives. Each story has an accompanying watercolor.
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PRAISE FOR FLUENCY
“The poetry and prose in this collection will take you on an uneasy, but deeply necessary, journey...”
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“I didn’t expect it to wrap a cold hand around my heart and lead me cover to cover!”
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“My reading was a kind of sapphic, possibly phantasmic, sexual awakening, which I'm very much here for.”
THE DEPOT'S DEARLY DEPARTED
GHOST STORIES
The Depot’s Dearly Departed is a choose-your-own-adventure style project. Enjoy reading this with friends and see what choices they make! There are thirteen choices and seven outcomes possible, but only one plot line will lead you safely out of the Depot and away from the ghosts.
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Will you make it out alive?​
The stories here are inspired by the folklore of The St. Louis County Depot. While inspiration has been taken from local legend, the stories here are fictitious. The art is mixed media, combining photos from within the Depot that are printed on receipt paper with watercolor. This project was written and created specifically for North Shorror 2025!
PUBLICATIONS
“Baptizing the Dead” in Oracle Review, April 24, 2026
“The Night She Gifted Me A Swan Feather” in Watershed Review, April 4, 2025
“C is for Guilt” in Freshwater Feral Zine for the Duluth Poetry Chapter, September 19, 2024
“Mouth of God” in F(r)iction Dually Noted Series, April 6, 2023
“Sound Secrets” in Quibble Literary Issue 7, December 2, 2022
Novel Extract “Typhoon” The Manchester Anthology IX, October 19, 2021
“With Happiness” in Dwelling Zine, 2021
REVIEWS
Review Midowed: A Mother’s Grief by Debbie Enever, first published with F(r)iction, 2024
Review Walking Practice: A Novel by Dolki Min, first published with F(r)iction, 2023
Review The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei, first published with F(r)iction, 2023
Review The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones, first published with Split Rock Review, 2022
Review 5 Reason to read Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 2021
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Debbie Enever, first published with F(r)iction, 2024
Interview with J. T. Greathouse, first published with F(r)iction, 2023
Interview with Sunyi Dean, first published with F(r)iction, 2023
Interview with Ian McGuire, first published with Split Rock Review, 2022
#SWANNCLUB
David James Keaton Reading and Q&A for Shallow Ends, August 23, 2025
Chisi Amanda Xiong Reading and Q&A with the Into the Mid World, March 22, 2025
Evan James Sheldon Reading and Q&A Children & Their Cages, July 30, 2023
Beth Underdown Q&A for The Key in the Lock, March 28, 2022
Jenn Ashworth Reading and Q&A for Ghosted: A Love Story, October 27, 2021