Fiction

Nohi and Mitéra

When you live in a world where gods are real and demand respect from their mortal subjects, how do you atone for a devastating mistake made by your father that results in the loss of the Goddess' temple? For Nohi, her family's dishonor bores a hole through her, literally. Will she amend her relationship with the Goddess, Mitéra, or will she perish alongside her disgraced father? Reconciliation is a twisted journey.

(2025) Finalist for 2025 Fiction Contest from Mānoa Journal

Head Hunting

San Fransisco is quite different from Hiraya "Dream" Halili's home back on the Negros Islands of the Philippines; however, an extrodinary internship opportunity for one of the nation's biggest asset management firms is too alluring to pass up. In this land of broken dreams, in the very same city her mother was brutally murdered in, Dream pioneers a path forward, on her own terms.

(2025) Finalist for 2025 Fiction Prize from Third Coast Magazine

Outgrown

As graduation looms in Willowbrook, Kayden finds himself thrust into a nightmarish version of his past educational experience. Will Kayden survive to make it to his big day? How will these horrors be reckoned with? Can the past truly be outgrown?

(2024) Semifinalist for Presence Short Story Award from Kinsman Publishing

(2024) Published in the "Spooky Teeth" edition of Lit Shark Magazine

Mesmerize

When a land surveyor goes out to a recently purchased plot of land in the Ozark St Francis National Forest, what should be a normal job turns into a mystery as a strange woman in the woods and her band of children capture his attention. As he seeks answers, the world he thought he knew becomes perversely distorted in a quest to process the past and reclaim the present. Will industry or the wild truly prevail?

(2024) Published in Arkansas Review Vol. 55 Issue 2.

Another Glass

Where do our traumas go when we set out across the world on vacation? Even in a place as beautiful as Barcelona, a young woman finds herself haunted by a harrowing presence. A woman who seems to be more miserable than she. This chilling work explores notions of womanhood, self, autonomy, and the need for community.

(2024) Published in Inscape.

America's Child

In this piece of flash fiction, a twisted relationship between a girl and her family is revealed. This short and not-so-sweet story explores the horrors of what it means to be a woman in America.

(2023) Published in Chaotic Merge issue #6.

The Mirage

In my foreboding and explorative work, the life of an overlooked member of society is depicted to reform the minds of readers. This being spends its entire life serving humanity; however, humans actively threaten its very existence through various innocuous habits. The aim of this story is to make readers acknowledge their own complicity in global crises and to highlight parallels between notable figures and this unappreciated member of society. Throughout this story, you will learn the tale of a hardened hero who has always been on your side. The Mirage will be made apparent as this alienated figure is brought to the fore. Are you ready to confront it?

(2022) Presented at NW Undergrad Conference in the Humanities