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Today I’m happy to share that one of my newer shorts has been featured in the August 2025 edition of Tumbleweird Magazine!

This is a local print publication based in Tri-Cities, WA that also maintains digital versions of their back-issues. I couldn’t be happier to have my first in-print showing be in their magazine, as they consistently work to elevate local voices, promote area artists and embrace difficult discussions with their platform. I’m immensely grateful for their decision to include me and feature one of my stories.

In this issue, they featured “Exit 218”, a short story I wrote in June. It’s one of the shortest I’ve written and is a story inspired by a long stretch of arid-desert highway that connects Tri-Cities to Seattle. Whenever I do that drive I’m taken aback by how uncomfortable it’d be to get stuck somewhere along that strip of road and the concept for Exit 218 formed around this setting.

You can read the story in-full by either navigating through their site (link in the first sentence) or by going to this link here and scrolling to the bottom where you can download a PDF of the issue. Exit 218 is on page 13 and has an audio version narrated by Rich Palmer. QR can be found on the digital issue, but I’ve also provided a screengrab of it here.

In other news, I’m continuing work on a few more short story submissions. With some luck, I’ll be able to share those in the coming months as well while I continue to work on my novel. In the meantime, I’ve got my Exit 218 print added to my office wall as a way of motiviating myself in continuing my journey to share more work and get it out there where people can enjoy it!

Hey! This is the first of what will be an intermittently updated section of this website. Expect additions to showcase my published works, updates on my current projects and any other tidbits I deem relevant to this author website.

In the meantime, here’s the inside scoop on my trajectory as of now:

• Short Fiction is currently being submitted to a variety of publications.
• New short fiction is being written.
• Second draft is underway for my full-length novel.
• My self-published shorts on Amazon have been pulled down pending heavy revision to older works that no longer represent my personal standards. I will reinstate up to 3 in time, simply for presence, but with the reality that Amazon trains their Ai system partially off authors I will not be lending my prose for such unethical practices.
• Relevant to the last bullet, I will be publishing a few select works on other eBook platforms, in time.
• Small efforts are being made to establish a following on Instagram for my writing. Back around 2016 I put in a few years building a following on Twitter, but I do not support that platform any more and have to restart elsewhere.

That’s the plan at least! Updates to come but I make zero promises on frequency.