Conservation of Matter

Prairie Fire, Summer 2021, Volume 42, No.2

No one noticed at first when they started to disappear, because that was what was supposed to happen when a person killed themselves.

How to Fake a Breakdown

Best Canadian Stories 2023, Biblioasis

EVENT magazine, 50/1 edition, 2021

I decided that day that I was going to pretend to have a breakdown because I hated my job and a mental disintegration sounded like an event that could liven it up.

arteries / convenience

Open Minds Quarterly, Spring 2020 issue.

Driving across the prairies, only the sky changes.

Sun-hat

Frond Literary, January 3, 2020

So this is a story about the first time I saw myself, and it’s not actually my story or even about me. It’s a story my father told me when I was twelve. I think he told me to try and teach me something, because that's what parents tend to do when their daughter spends more time at school sitting across from the principal than a blackboard.

an incomplete list of things i’ve cut my mouth on

Third Wednesday, Fall 2019 issue, Vol XII, No.4, George Dila Memorial Contest Winner

1. Halls cough candies, cherry flavour

2. over-toasted toast

3. a fence post tripped into trying to get away from a dead possum by the creek at Laura’s place when we were looking for crayfish, eight years old, dazzled at the sight of so much blood

Suzanne

Leopardskin & Limes, May 17, 2019

Alice had never been sure her father loved her until now. It was cruel, but somehow watching her father describe his first wife in the worst words she’d ever heard him use made her feel like she knew him, like she was a woman he could trust with his unkindness.

Safety in Numbers

Goose, Spring 2015 issue

It took half an hour of cooing through the shake and shudder of the subway train for the baby to fall asleep.