Here are some of the original stories Jeff’s gotten published. Hopefully this section will grow with time! And feedback is always welcomed.

2020

• “Better Than a Vintage Marshall” (100 words): How to lure a reluctant basement-dweller! Published in The Drabble.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “Mr. DeShaw’s Sculpture” (5,987 words): What to do when your neighbor erects an obscene sculpture? And then dies? Published in Mystery Weekly Magazine, and my first story in physical print!
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here. PAID
• “Prison Prose” (100 words): What I’d do if I was slightly less moral. Published in The Drabble.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.

2019

• “Board Games” Mini-Contest 2nd Place Win (50 words): On The Premises mini-contest #44 was a toughie, but I did it in the max number of words allowed.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here, on failed entries here. PAID.
• “Investigating Dr. Teatree” (1,080 words): Don’t mix up body parts when applying to medical school. Published in Little Old Lady Comedy.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “Sebastián and Greta” (608 words): On high school, translations, and cross-cultural prom dates. Published in The Norwegian American.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here. PAID.
• “Writing Advice: A Drabble” (100 words): Everything you should do (or not do) if you want to get published. Fifth publication with Eunoia Review.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “Lizzy’s Last Chance” (7:36): My best work published in 2019, and my first podcasted story. About a magical family, read by Jill Raymond, and published in The Centropic Oracle. PAID.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here, follow-up post here.
• “DDS Confession” (100 words): A (somewhat unscrupulous?) dentist tells it all in my first publication with A Story in 100 Words.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “Dangerous Words: A Drabble” (100 words): Do you like puns? Of course you do! My fourth publication with Eunoia Review.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “The Real McCoy” (598 words): Poking fun at one of my favorite shows (AND MY SECOND PAYING STORY!). Published in Lite Lit One. PAID.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “Edith Empowered” (835 words): My FIRST PAYING STORY, and my first publication with Page & Spine — it’s about a classic TV character. PAID.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “Robot Plague” (1,422 words): Schlock Magazine accepted this story I’d been working on since 2011. Call me biased, but I think it has just about the best title ever written.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.

2018

• “Gray All Over” (101 words): My second publication with 101 Words was this fun bit of surrealism.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “Mae Jemison Cheeks” (2,361 words): Schlock Magazine added the subtitle of “The Girl and the Tyrant,” which is pretty good!
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “Yo Mama” (539 words): My third publication with Eunoia Review, about a bully getting his comeuppance.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “Creatures of Habit” (101 words): 101 Words only accepts story of exactly… well, you can probably figure the rest out.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “Creativity School” (173 words): A little bit Dr. Seuss, a little bit Amelia Bedelia. This was published in Cleaver Magazine — thwack!
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “The Dentist’s Maxim” (193 words): My second publication with Eunoia Review was inspired by a trip to the dentist.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “Everyone’s Favorite Couple” (648 words): My best work published in 2018. And this story truly, DEFINITELY, isn’t inspired by Leah and I. Published in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
• “The Detective” (94 words): My second piece of published flash fiction, inspired by my sister. Published in Eunoia Review.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.
    
• “Page 2, Paragraph 25” (99 words): This was my first piece of published flash fiction, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. Published in The Drabble.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here.

(We call this four-year gap between publications “going to graduate school”)

2014

• …Often Go Awry (4,500 words): My very first published story, inspired by “Flowers for Algernon” and all the NIMH works. Published by The WiFiles.
  • Batch & Narrative post introducing the story here (along with thoughts on a year in North Carolina).