“​At night she lay in the dripping darkness with his limbs coiled around hers and thought, this is happiness. I may have been a wretched wench, a wicked witch, and yet I have wrenched for myself this incredible happiness. Decades later when the grandchildren ask how I had survived the flood, I would tell them, why, it was the happiest time of my life.”

— “Every Creeping Thing That Creepeth Upon the Earth” The Quarter(ly)

Nominated for the Pushcart Prize

“The detection device was stuck on the left side of the doorframe with thin tape. From beyond it I could make out the sounds of a ghost making her way around: barely-there footsteps, water trickling, paper rustling, light-coloured hair trailing behind her.”

— “The Quarantiner" Spittoon