Short Stories
Inspired by Sigrid Nuñez’s novel, A Feather on the Breath of God, this three-part, multi-perspective story uses doors and thresholds as recurring symbols for intimacy, distance, and emotional inheritance. Through memory, family language, and physical spaces, the piece examines what it means to be let in, shut out, and changed by the people who know us most closely.
Twitch follows Mike, an isolated birdwatcher and bookstore employee whose fascination with rare birds becomes entangled with his fixation on Noa, a lively girl who enters the store and unsettles his carefully controlled way of seeing the world. The story explores the blurred line between noticing and possessing, care and surveillance, longing and control. As Noa’s hidden home life begins to emerge, Mike’s desire to document what others miss becomes a darker attempt to understand—and capture—what cannot fully be seen.
This flash fiction piece captures the final unraveling of a marriage through the charged intimacy of a restaurant meal. In its restrained, sensory prose, the piece explores how disgust can shift from the physical to the emotional, turning appetite into a language for grief, anger, and humiliation.
Distance Makes the Heart Grow follows Aria as she leaves New York for Maine, moving through the aftermath of a painful goodbye with Liron, her boyfriend of three years. Through fragmented memories and physical and emotional journeys, the story traces the difficult realization that intimacy can become tangled with control, guilt, and harm.