AVAILABLE NOW!!! Development Times Vary, my debut Short Story Collection, was the Winner of the 2021 Moon City Press Short Fiction Prize & was Published by Moon City Press in November 2022
Below are links to my fiction publications, which means they are mostly untrue stories–“Liar, liar, pants-on-fire” stories, I like to call them.
“The Skull is a Woman” in Cotton Xenomorph
“General Considerations of Independent Living,” Moon City Review (print only)
“Better Tomorrow” in A Public Space online *finalist in the 2022 Stories Out of School contest
“Bounty” in Heavy Feather Review
“Thirty-One Light Years Away” in No Contact
“Symphony No. 7,” in Fractured Lit
“Out of Season,” in Ghost Parachute
“Hunger, Listen, Thirst,” in Milk Candy Review
“How to Survive a Nuclear Meltdown,” in Third Point Press
“Yosemite,” in 100 Word Story
“Stealing Baby Jesus,” Barrelhouse, Issue 20 (print only)
“Esperance,” Bending Genres
“Breaking the Chains,” Pithead Chapel
“Watching the Crash in Slow Motion,” We Were So Small
“Night Moves,” Superstition Review
“If a Heart Beats in the Nursing Home and No One’s There to See It, Did It Ever Really Beat at All?” in Vestal Review*Nominated for Best Microfiction
“Grafton Hill,” Lost Balloon
“Jericho Falls,” Ellipsis Magazine (print only)
“Above Sea Level,” Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, Spring 2018 (print only)
“Brittle Arms,” Necessary Fiction
“Cruel Summer,” matchbook
“Three is a Rational Number,” HAD
“Santo Spirito, 1577,” FlashBack Fiction *Selected for The Best Small Fictions 2019
“Plan B,” Fiction Southeast
“Birth Marks,” MoonPark Review
“Returning to Karakong,” Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, Volume 2 “The Lobsters Run Free.” (print only) *Shortlisted for Bath Flash Fiction Prize
“Save Us From Extinction,” WhiskeyPaper *Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2018
“School Lessons,” Noble / Gas Qtrly *finalist for Birdwhistle Fiction Prize
“Word Search,” jmww journal *Nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net 2017
“The Erratic Flight Patterns of Bats,” The Adroit Journal *Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2018
“Gravitational Waves,” Jellyfish Review
“Re-Pete,” Wigleaf
“Born Again,” Lost Balloon *Nominated for a 2018 Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net 2017
“Frat Party,” (b)OINK
“The Circumference of Everything,” The Nottingham Review
“What Remains,” The Airgonaut
“Safety,” SmokeLong Quarterly
“The Mathematics of Aunt Dolly,” Corium Magazine *Selected for Wigleaf’s 2016 Top 50 Longlist
“House Rules,” Split Lip Magazine *Selected for Wigleaf’s 2016 Top 50 Longlist and Nominated for Best of the Net 2017
“The Art of a Covenant,” Zoetic Press, Alphanumeric
“Adopting Mercy,” Bartleby Snopes *Nominated for Best of the Net 2016
“Darby, Nightfall,” Boston Literary Magazine (defunct)
“Lunar Facts,” Necessary Fiction
“The Constant Nature of Toxicity,” The EEEL by tNY Press (now, sadly, defunct)
“DJ’s Addictions,” The Conium Review *Selected for Wigleaf’s 2015 Top 50 Longlist
Michele Finn Johnson 