Short Stories

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"Riding a Bike in the Land of the Dead"

Jokes Review

May 2025

One must pass from the land of the living into the land of the dead on a bicycle. But what happens when someone needs to make that journey but can't ride a bike?

"Heartbreaking and a little chilling, but really great." - Jokes Review Editors

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"The Graveyard of Abandoned Dreams"

The Penmen Review

Winner, Southern New Hampshire University Fall Fiction Contest

December 2021

"What happens to a dream deferred?" - Langston Hughes

Maybe they get sent to the graveyard, where they will rot and fester with all the other dreams who were abandoned.

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