New Fiction in D Magazine Summer Fiction Issue!

I have a new short story in the D Magazine July 2022 Summer Fiction issue. All of the stories take place at iconic spots in Dallas. I chose Dallas City Hall: 

The Robocop producers gifted Dallas one of seven replicas of the suit. And who better to take ownership of it, all these decades later, than the recently retired man who had maintained City Hall since 1978. 

This year features fantastic short fiction by LaToya Watkins, Harry Hunsicker, Logen Cure, Kendra Greene, Kathleen Kent, Alex Temblador, Mag Gabbert, Tim Coursey, Sanderia Faye, and Mike Soto. Beautiful illustrations by Tatjana Junker.  

Thank you to Zac Crain for including my story in this issue, on newsstands and online right here.

New Fiction in A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality (TCU Press, May 2022)

I am honored to have a short story in the anthology A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality, edited by Elizabeth Joan Dell & Donna Walker-Nixon. The book is forthcoming from Texas Christian University Press in May 2022.

A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality brings together the works of writers in Texas. The title is taken, with permission, from Naomi Shihab Nye’s introduction to Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, where she states the role of poetry serves as “a fire to light our tongues.” This view describes the role that creative writers, encountering the challenges of this past decade, face as they grapple with shifting views of spirituality. While the project started before COVID-19, given the current worldwide pandemic, a book of creative work responding to writers’ spirituality could not be more timely. This anthology offers readers creative works by Texas writers as they wrestle with evolving systems of belief or nonbelief.

Semi-Finalist in the ISAConnect Action & Adventure Genre Busting Screenplay Competition!

My screenplay, NORTHBOUND, is a Semi-Finalist in the ISAConnect Action & Adventure Genre Busting Screenplay Competition! My script advanced over hundreds of submissions and I'm honored to be included in the festival. 

This script has also received multiple 8+ ratings at The Black List along with the following coverage/blurb:

This hyper-violent and occasionally funny thriller had notes of the Coen brothers and Tarantino. The characters were memorable and unique, and their bond and witty back-and-forth really carried what could have otherwise been a run of the mill crime flick. -The Black List

Logline: Eager to get out of their uncle’s drug ring, siblings Opal and Grady find themselves in over their heads when their uncle turns up dead.