1st December 2009 With You I Climb Mountains 2009 National Scholastic Writing Award winner, Raleigh Fine Arts Society "Best Overall Short Story'" winner, subsequently published in a winners PUSH anthology.
The Adroit Journal • 1st August 2012 Reckless Prudence Jane is a small-breasted version of her mother. She is part Beatles, part Austen—her mother’s favorite things—and yet Prudence inherited none of that love. Eleanor Rigby is the only song she can stomach (on a good day). (Honorable Mention for the 2012 Adroit Prize for Prose)