Short Stories

“Worst Date Ever” to be published in New York State of Crime, Murder New York Style 6, Down & Out Books, September 2024.

“The Tao of Murder” to be published in Crimeucopia: Chicka-Chicka Boomba, Murderous Ink Press, April 2025.

A Warm Moscow October

It’s 1995, and Moscow is dripping with capitalists…and our protagonist falls for the wrong man.

Mystery Patrons, Level Best Books, April 2024

Twelve Angry Actors

Murder at a summer stock theater!

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, March/April 2023

Windy Willows

The tale of a desolate mom who’s lost her son and who decides to secretly help another mother who’s been abandoned by her babydaddy.

Justice for All, Murder New York Style 5, Level Best Books, 2021.

A Surefire Hit

An actor has murder on her mind, and a trip to a sketchy theater for her friend almost turns deadly.

Mysterical-E, Spring/Summer 2020

GODS AND VIRGINS IN THE BIG EASY

A college road trip from Nashville to New Orleans– with murder as the main objective.

Crime Syndicate Magazine, Issue 3, Short Stack Books, September 2017.

AN ACTOR PREPARES

A trip to the Bronx Zoo for one acting class turns deadly.

Where Crime Never Sleeps, Murder New York Style 5, Level Best Books, 2017

BIG HAIR, BANANA CLIPS AND THE FIGURE FOUR LEG LOCK

Suzanne wants to be Pro-Wrestling’s next female superstar. But her friend Laura smells danger—and it smells like Hai Karate.

Fast Women and Neon Lights, Eighties-Inspired Neon Noir, Short Stack Books, November 1, 2016

SUMMER READING

Alex, a school teacher, who is a little obsessed with the size of her thighs, discovers that one of her favorite novelists has gone missing.
Mysterical-E, Winter 2010/2011
Kings River Life Magazine, March 25, 2017

A FELLOW OF INFINITE JEST

A writer returns to the Vermont summer stock theatre where she apprenticed fifteen years ago, and faces the demons of her past

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2009.

GLASS SLIPPER 101

Shoes, love, and turning 30.
Originally published in The Chick Lit Review, November 2007.
Not Even Joking, February 2016