Monkey Years – ANMLY tbd

Angry Birds – Emerge Lit. tbd

Devolution –  The Ilanot Review tbd

Everything Gone All At Once – Your Impossible Voice tbd

And afterwards, – Claudine Lit., August 3

Words Remembered – Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art, Vol 25, No1, June 30

Thereafter – FlashFlood, June 13

Transformation– Bending Genres, June 9

Grocery List | Cooking Lesson | Delicatessen – RUBY Lit. Issue 7, April 6

A Man and A Balloon – Ghost Parachute, April 1

In the Backyard of My House Where Ah Ma Never Came to Visit | Truite au bleu – Unbroken, April 1

Dead Spaghetti Love | Something Else – Hot Flash Lit, Issue 3, March 30

Prey | Splintered – Gooseberry Pie Lit, Issue 39, Jan 8

Cravings – Flare: An Anthology of Chronic Illness Told in Flash Narratives, tbd

Candied Girl / Give Us A Hand – The Cafe Irreal

Yellow – Centaur Lit. Nov 2 (Best Microfiction 2026)

American Goddess/ Fangs/ Ah Ma’s Ghost – New World Writing Quarterly, Oct 17

An Ordinary Day in the Life of the White Snake Bai Suzhen as Ms. Lim – Coven of the East: Reclaiming Asian Women’s Magical Histories anthology, September 21

Mirror, Mirror – The Ekphrastic Review, Sep 15

A Tale of Sea Dragons – The Ekphrastic Review, Sep 15

Raise the Red Lantern – Hot Flash Literary, Sep 4

Why I still Wash Used Saran Wraps and Dry Them on the Dish Rack – The Forge Literary Magazine, August 11

Tomb Sweeping Day – Ghost Parachute, Aug 1

A Tale of Fairies – WestWord Folktale Flash Contest shortlist, July 25

Fifteen Shades of Pink – Flash the Court, July 18

Portrait of Ah Ma – Midway Journal, Vol 19, Issue 3, July 15, NOMINATED BEST SMALL FICTIONS

Visual Narrative: TRIPTYCH—Pescatarian Tribulations – The Scalar Comet, July 2

Anatomy of a Pencil – Does It Have Pockets? July 1

Recipe for a Broken Heart – Does It Have Pockets? July 1

Awakening – 30th Bath Flash Fiction Awards (Highly Commended), June 29, NOMINATED for PUSHCART PRIZE

Windows to the Soul – Cleaver Magazine, June 25

Postcards from Yourstory – Maryland Literary Review, Spring/Summer Issue

A Big Red Island – Boudin: The Online Home of the McNeese Review “Finding Home: Immigration and Displacement“ May 2025

Grandma’s World – Moon City Review, April (print)

I See You – SmokeLong Quarterly, Dec 16, Second Place Winner of the Grand Micro Contest 2024

How Lady Bai’s First Human Husband Disappeared – Gone Lawn, Cold Moon issue 58, Dec 15

You and Me – Gooseberry Pie, Dec 7

3 Micros: Family Animals, Flight, Nest – Gooseberry Pie, Nov 7

Where is Home? and graphic representation – South Florida Poetry Journal, Nov 1, (Best Microfiction 2025)

Micro Horror: Omakase – Five on the Fifth, Oct 5

6 Prose Poems – The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry, Issue 5, Sept 15

Pushcart Nomination: The Weight on Her Shoulders – The Mackinaw: a journal of prose poetry

Collections in BULL, Sep 6

Ekphrastic micro: Liberation – The Ekphrastic Review, Aug 21 [Nominated Best Small Fictions]

3 Micros: Mrs & Mrs Yang, Shooting for the Moon, Home Décor – Gooseberry Pie, Issue 18, Aug 15

Prose Poetry: Periodic Thoughts – The Disappointed Housewife, June 27 [nominated Best of the Net 2024]

Dribble: One Foot Race, story #1326 – 50 Give or Take, Vine Leaves Press, June 24

Cumulonimbi – Pidgeonholes (defunct), FlashFlood, June 15 (Best Small Fictions 2025)

2 Dribbles: Cover Reveal, Love Chirp – Blink-Ink, Issue 56, June 11

Ghost Catcher – Ghost Parachute, June 1

How I Got Kicked Out From Grad School Chemistry – The Dribble Drabble Review, Issue IX, May 27

2 Stories: A Good Plan, Try Not To Think in COMP: an interdisciplinary journal, Issue 4, May 25

Osteonecrosis | Father’s Eyes – Atlas and Alice, May 22 (nominated Best Microfiction 2025)

3 Ekphrastic micros: Stepping Out, To Fill an Empty Womb, The Fortune Teller – Flash Boulevard, May 11

Collaborative fiction: Emerge – Atticus Review, Issue 7, April 15

Graveyard; Havana Nights – The Memory Palace, An Ekphrastic Anthology, March 27

Mary – The Ilanot Review, March 12 (Best Microfiction 2025)

Dystopian microfiction: The Resisters – 365 Tomorrows, Feb 4

Daydream, story #1167 – 50 Give or Take, Vine Leaves Press, Jan 17

Dance of the Dragons – Unbroken, Issue 40, Winter 2024

We Were Once Combustible – Hobart, selected for Duets Anthology (buy a print copy, or FREE download)

Shopping List – RUBY, (Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Food Writing) Dec 31

Sci-fi story: Two for One – Space & Time Magazine, Issue #145, Dec 7

Co-translation from French of the novel, My Lemon Tree (Mon citronnier), Spuyten Duyvil, Nov 10

The Monster Within – The Margins, Nov 3

The Color of You – Emerge Literary Journal, (Nominated for Best Microfiction) Nov 3

Make Me Yours – Ghost Parachute, Nov 2 (Best Microfiction 2024)

Mystery short story: Lost & Found – WOLFSBANE: BEST NEW ENGLAND CRIME STORIES 2023 (Read the blog post by Editor Susan Oleksiw on the 3 writers whose first crime stories are included in the anthology), Oct 10

Love You to Pieces in Waxwing, Oct 4

The Weight on Her Shoulders in Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Oct 1 

In the Blink of an Eye – JMWW, Sept 13 (Best Small Fictions 2024)

Hunger – JMWW, Sept 13 (Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2024)

The Day Mrs. Wong Brought Wonton Soup – JMWW, Sept 13

Maid in America – Fractured Lit. (Anthology III Prize, judged by Peter Orner, Pushcart Nomination) Sept 4

Love Crate – The Ekphrastic Review, Lucky 8 Ekphrastic Marathon, Aug 25

Horror microfiction: Love Better – Deadly Drabble Tuesdays, Aug 15 [DEFUNCT]

When You Call Me Names – Apogee Journal, Aug 4 (SmokeLong Workshop Prize Finalist)

The Case of Mrs. Brown – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, July 16

Matching Pair – Microfiction Monday Magazine, July 3

Maxillectomy – Pithead Chapel, Vol 12, Issue 7, July 1 (Best Microfiction 2024)

Feline Commands – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, June 30

Lego Mansion – Vestal Review, Issue 62, June 10 (Pushcart Nomination) | Interviewby Mandira Pattnaik

Her Name – Friday Flash Fiction, May 26

The Seer – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, May 21

Odum the Brave – The Ekphrastic Review, May 20

Boiling Point – New Flash Fiction Review, Issue 29, May 1

Alba and the Faun – The Ekphrastic Review, April 20

Humorous story: The Last Act – Ellipsis Zine, Issue 13 (e-copy, pg 11), April 19

Little Girl – Atticus Review, Issue 4, April 15

The Magic Store – Atticus Review, Issue 4, April 15

Nomads – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, April 7

Speculative, humorous micro: All The Single Women – Roi Fainéant Press, April 2

Love Letter – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, March 31

Mark My Words – Cleaver, March 30 (Nominated for Best Microfiction 2024)

Graphic Story: Counting Buttons – Backwards Trajectory, March 22

Murderous Intent – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, March 15

Invisible Enemies – Flash Frog, February 27

Girls Howling – trampset, Feb 17

Legend of Arabella The Great – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Jan 29

Portuguese Summer – The Dribble Drabble Review, Issue VII, Jan 24

“Secondhand Hand” – Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, Volume 7, Dandelion Years, print, Dec

Specimen – The Citron Review, Winter Solstice, Dec 21

Clicking Together – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Dec 20

Cumulonimbi – Pidgeonholes [defunct], Dec 13 (Nominated Best Microfiction, Twitter feed) Reprint in FlashFlood, 2025

Our Castle – Lunch Ticket, Issue 22, Dec 10 (included in Wigleaf Top 50, 2023)

Invasive Species – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Nov 30

Story of You – CRAFT Literary, Nov 11 (Finalist in CRAFT Literary Flash Fiction Prize 2021)

Postscript – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Oct 30

Bones of Steel – Bending Genres, Issue 29, Oct 18

Eternal Night – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Sept 15

The Tale We Told – SmokeLong Quarterly, Sept 19 (Finalist in SmokeLong Summer Fiction Competition)

Ten Thousand Reasons Why – Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words, Aug 15

Questions I Collected from My Father – Gordon Square Review, Issue 10, May 31 (Nominated Best of the Net)

We Were Once Combustible – Hobart, May 9

Boy Feeding Rabbits – The Ekphrastic Review, May 6

Name Your World – The Pinch journal, Issue 42.1, print, April 8

Mother, Daughter – The Ocotillo Review, Issue 6.1 (print) Feb 8

That Time of the Year – Tiny Molecules, Issue 6 (Autumn issue)

“What the Girl in the Red Quilted Jacket Remembers” – New Narratives: Reclaiming Asian American Identity through Storytelling, Unbound Visual Arts project.

Bánh Mì in Chinatown – Boston in 100 Words Contest, Inaugural Year, May, (listen on SoundCloud at the 2.12 min mark, see posters in Alewife MBTA station and Downtown Crossing)