Published by Thrice Fiction, Issue 27, December 2019. (https://indd.adobe.com/view/f6d01996-5d7e-41a9-af97-d6df45a36d64)

Magnus believed he could go any time. Nothing and no one was keeping him inside his ninth floor studio apartment in an upper Eastside high rise. He hadn’t had a good reason to leave since Hester moved out. On that day, he’d cinched up his fluffy robe, slipped on his flip flops and carried her heavy suitcases to the elevator and down to the lobby, even outside to the back of the waiting mega-drone. He’d lifted her luggage into the trunk, shut it, and slapped the top good-naturedly. That was seventeen years ago.

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https://www.broadkillreview.com/post/2019/05/28/the-cinderella-of-sunset-park

Published by The Broadkill Review, November 2019. Nominated by The Broadkill Review for a 2019 Pushcart Prize and a 2020 Best of the Net.

There Are No Whys

Published by Flash Fiction Magazine, October 28, 2019. Click on title to read the story.

Salmonella Summer by Suzanne C. Martinez

Published in Streetlight Magazine, Issue 29, Spring 2019 and Streetlight Magazine 2019 Anthology (https://www.amazon.com/Streetlight-Magazine-2019-Anthology-Trudy/dp/B08QDNJ2TD)

Click on title to read the story.

We Are All Strangers

Published by Bull+Cross, Issue 23, February 2019 and reprinted in The Gathering, WWS Anthology, November 2021. (https://www.amazon.com/Gathering-Women-Who-Submit-Anthology/dp/173324154X)

https://www.hongkongreview.co/vol-i-no-1

Published in the Inaugural Issue of The Hong Kong Review, Volume I, Issue 1, January 2019 (https://www.hongkongreview.co/vol-i-no-1)

Celeste sat on the concrete stairs of the station. She was a little shaky; she didn’t dare try to stand. A minute ago, she was lying prone, the sharp edges of the steps digging into her head, back, hips and legs. There’d be nasty green and purple bruises tomorrow, she realized, but that was the least of her concerns. 

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