"The Big Book of Useless Saturdays," The Sewanee Review (Summer 2020)
"Memphis," Ninth Letter (Spring/Summer 2020)
“One Goes Where One is Needed,” Ploughshares (Spring 2019)
“Smart Shopper” South Carolina Review (Fall 2017)
“Time Travel” South Carolina Review (Fall 2017))
“Chest Bump,” Very Angry Baby (from Acre Books, University of Cincinnati Press, April 2017))
“The Slim Jim,” Great Jones Street (March 2016)
“The Bus,” Kenyon Review Online (Spring 2016)
“Good Night,” The Sun (May 2015)
"Knock Knock," Iowa Review (Fall 2010)
"People Who Are Not Like Us," Sycamore Review (Fall 2010)
"Our Pointy Boots," Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (Fall 2010)
"Our Pointy Boots," Ecotone (Winter 2009)
"This is Not a Story About How Much I Love You," Five Chapters (Fall 2007)
"Children Who Divorce," (fiction) Ninth Letter (Summer 2007)
"The Pity Palace," (fiction) Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall 2006)
"What is the Cure for Meanness?" (fiction) One Story (June 2006)
"That Which We Will Not Give," (fiction) New England Review (Spring 2006)
"The Price of the Haircut," (fiction) Agni (Summer 2005)
"The Ghosts We Love," (fiction) Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2005)
"The Apology," (fiction) Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small Presses (Spring 2005)
"We Found Ourselves in Toronto," (fiction) Land-Grant College Review (Fall 2005)
"The Lolita School," (fiction) New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2004
"Concerning Lizzie Borden, Her Axe, My Wife," The Missouri Review (Spring 2004)
"The Reason Was Us," (fiction) The Georgia Review (Spring 2004)
"The Misunderstandings," (fiction) Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 2004)
"Mr. Frost's Neighbors," (fiction) Vermont Literary Review (Fall 2004))
"Geronimo," Stories from the Blue Moon Café: An Anthology (2004)
"The Fundraiser's Dance Card," (fiction) The Southern Review (Winter 2004)
"Different," (fiction) Rivendell (Winter 2004)
"The Son's Point of View," (fiction) The Southern Review (Fall 2003)
"The Apology," (fiction) New England Review (Summer 2003)
"Geronimo," (fiction) Greensboro Review (Fall 2003)
"For Those of Us Who Need Such Things," (fiction) New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2003
"The Wedding Present," (fiction) Failbetter (2003)
"For Those of Us Who Need Such Things," (fiction) The Georgia Review (Fall 2002)
"The Hotel Utica," (fiction) Five Points (Fall 2002)
"The Lolita School," (fiction) StoryQuarterly (Fall 2002)
"Plowing the Secondaries," (fiction) New England Review (Spring 2001)
"She Loved to Cook but Not Like This," (fiction) New England Review (Spring 2001)
"Accidents," (fiction) Mississippi Review Web (Spring 2001)
"What We Won't Do," (fiction) Our Working Lives: Short Fiction of Work (Bottom Dog Press/the Ohio Arts Council, Fall 2000))
"The Fat," (fiction) Tatlin's Tower (Summer 2000)
"Carrying the Torch," (fiction) New England Review (Spring 2000)
"The World Dirty, Like a Heart," (fiction) American Fiction (Spring 1999)
"The Right Questions," (fiction) The Journal (Spring 1999)
"Up North," (fiction) The South Carolina Review (Fall 1999)
"Compensation," (fiction) New England Review (May 1998)
"A Widespread Killing Frost," (fiction) Mississippi Review (December 1997)
"The Reasons," (fiction) American Fiction (Fall 1996)