Print journals and magazines:
- “A Friend” in Virginia Quarterly Review
- “The Blue Tiger” in South Carolina Review
- “Birthday in Missouri Review
- “Biology” in Southern Review
- “Gold Into Straw” in Sou’wester
- “Kennedy” in Subtropics
- “A Slender Wage” in Oxford American
- “Until the Flood Came” in Crazyhorse
- “A Babysitter” in Chattahoochee Review
- “The Lost Baby” in American Short Fiction
- “Portfolio” in Colorado Review
- “Educating Lillian” in The American Scholar
- “Door to Door” in Kenyon Review
- “A Spirit Rising and Falling” in Fairy Tale Review
- “A Room at Madame Terreur’s” in Third Coast
- “Only Ghosts” in Mississippi Review
- “A Visit” in Missouri Review
- “Living Underground” in Southern Humanities Review
- “An Arc Welder, a Molotov Cocktail, a Bowie Knife” in Ploughshares
- “Sanders for a Night” in Southwest Review
- “Becoming a Narrative Machine” in Jelly Bucket
- “The Horror We Made” in American Short Fiction
- “A Signal to the Faithful” in A Public Space
- “The Ring” in Yemassee
- “The Simplest Wedding” in Booth
- “Hunger Strike” in Gulf Coast
- “On the Other End” in Epoch
- “A Series of Lessons” in Chattahoochee Review
- “A Birth in the Woods” in Ecotone
- “The Human Element in the Machine Process” in Ninth Letter
- “Intergenerating” in Mid-American Review
- “You Amaze Me, You Do” in New South
- “The One You Love” in Natural Bridge
- “Goat” in Washington Square
- “Colossal Cave Adventure” in PANK
- “Pittu Orgam” and “Rabbits” in Kitty Snacks
- “Tommy Explained: A Song-by-Song Analysis of The Who’s Rock Opera” in Cincinnati Review
- “Housewarming” in South Carolina Review
- “So Dark in the Wolf’s Maw” in Mud Luscious Press
- “Walk Around Crazy” in Whiskey Island Magazine
- “The Vanishing Husband” in Dislocate
- “Death Grip” in The Emerson Review
- “Two Cans and Some Fishing Line” in Iron Horse Literary Review
- “No Joke, This is Going To Be Painful” in Tin House
- “In the Road” in The Southeast Review
- “Tommy Explained: Album One, Side One, Song Six” in Corduroy Mtn.
- “The Nuclear-Battery Baby” in The Duck & Herring Co.
- “I Wasted a Semester on You” in The Licking River Review
- “Steak and Eggs, Cow and Chicken” in Keyhole Magazine
- “Punching Jimmy Carter” in The Distillery
- “The Thumb” in Phoebe
- “Days at the Beach” in Mid-American Review
- “A Car, Unattended, Still Running” in Backwards City Review
- “Tiller Family Soup” in Southern Humanities Review
- “Your Five Failed Jobs” in Land-Grant College Review
- “Till the End of the World Rolls Round” in Green Mountains Review
- “Three Men, Family” in The Pinch
- “The Toy Collector Laments His Lower-Middle Class Childhood” and “We Left the Baby at the Pizza Place” in The Southeast Review
- “The Screaming Baby” in Redivider
- “Excavating the Zeligcoofer Brood” in New Delta Review
- “Lying to the President” in The Powhatan Review
- “Grand Stand-In” in The Cincinnati Review
- “Birds in the House” in The Greensboro Review
- “Tunneling to the Center of the Earth” in Frostproof Review and The Barcelona Review (Spanish and English)
- “Worst-Case Scenario” in One Story
- “The Choir Director Affair (The Baby’s Teeth)” in Carolina Quarterly
- “Breathing the Winter” in Fugue
- “The Shooting Man” in Meridian
- “Blowing Up on the Spot” in Ploughshares
- “A Limited Supply” in Other Voices
- “The Washed-Up Man” in Shenandoah
- “The List” in The First Line
- “The Plane Miners” in The Distillery
- “Burning Lines” in The Beloit Fiction Journal
- “Carried Away” in Quick Fiction
- “Hydraulics” in The Old Red Kimono
- “The Pigeon Cove Festival of Lights” in New Orleans Review
- “What Cold Can Do” in 64 Magazine
- A World of Glass” in Oxford American
- “Wishing You Well” in The Vanderbilt Review
Online Journals
- “Fail” in Every Day Fiction
- “Get Lost” in Hobart
- “The Ark” in Journal of Microliterature (no longer available online)
- “The New Friend” in Fiction Southeast
- “Phylum Cordata” in Atticus Review
- “Never Enough” in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
- “Each House a Law Unto Itself” in Corium Magazine
- “The Quints in Masks” in Big Lucks
- “The Essential Failure of the Universe: Essential Target“ in Trop
- “The Simplest Wedding” in Booth
- “Loads” in Devil’s Lake
- “Ashes” in fwriction: review
- “The Morons Wallow in a Sea of Girls” in Corium Magazine
- “Excerpt from the Big Book of Forgotten Lunatics, Volume 1” in Hobart
- “A Disturbance” in Carolina Quarterly Online (no longer available online)
- “Another Little Piece” in Prime Number Magazine
- “Pig Week, 2008” in jmww (no longer available online)
- “Going Back to Flag” in jmww (no longer available online)
- “Sanitation” in Fawlt Magazine (no longer available online)
- “How I Stood in the Wrong Place and Lingered There Too Long” in The Legendary (no longer available online)
- “The Arm” in Foundling Review
- “A Derangement in the System” in Ghoti (no longer available online)
- “My Hand, Dead Tissue, Severed at the Wrist” in Hobart
- “Blue-Suited Henchman, Kicked Into Shark Tank” in SmokeLong Quarterly
- “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D.” in Barrelhouse (no longer available online)
- “A Pile of Shirts, Ripped from the Body” in Clapboard House (no longer available online)
- “Excerpt from the Big Book of Forgotten Lunatics, Volume 1” in The Collagist
- “Revenge” in decomP
- “There is Someone in the Next Room Who Does Not Want to Sleep with You” in Avatar Review
- “The Moon’s Face, Darkened” in BULL: Men’s Fiction
- “The Museum of Whatnot” in Fifty-Two Stories
- “Skin” in Joyland
- “Boneshakers” in Tulip (no longer available online)
- “Tommy Explained: Album One, Side Two, Track One” in Lamination Colony (no longer available online)
- “Tommy Explained: Album One, Side One, Track Five” in Seventy Two Words (no longer available online)
- “Tommy Explained: Album One, Side One, Track Four” in Six Sentences
- “Tommy Explained: Album One, Side One, Track Three” in Wigleaf
- “Hammer” in Waccamaw
- “Tommy Explained: Album One, Side One, Tracks One and Two” in Robot Melon (no longer available online)
- “Having Won the Lottery, James Becomes an Epicurean” in Thieves Jargon (no longer available online)
- “Hail Vulgar Juice of Never-Fading Pine” in Juked
- “Songs in the Key of Being Angry” inWord Riot
- “Spy vs. Spy” in Oxford Magazine (no longer available online)
- “The Dead Sister Handbook: A Guide for Sensitive Boys” in DIAGRAM
- “The Rents Don’t Like Fish” in Pindeldyboz (no longer available online)
- “Book of You” in Mississippi Review Online (no longer available online)
- “The Neck’s What Keeps Heart and Head Together” in Blackbird
- “Everything I Touch Runs Wild” in storySouth
Anthologies
- “Biology” in Best American Short Stories 2021, Heidi Pitlor and Jesmyn Ward, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 2021.
- “Kennedy” in Best American Short Stories 2020, Heidi Pitlor and Curtis Sittenfeld, eds. Houghton Mifflin, 2020
- “The Essential Failure of the Universe” in Critically Acclaimed, Adam Cushman & J. Ryan Stradal, eds. Rare Bird Books, 2018
- “A Birth in the Woods” in Astoria to Zion: Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone’s First Decade, Lookout Books, 2014.
- “What Wants My Son” in xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths, Kate Bernheimer, ed. Penguin, 2013
- “The Law is Skinny with Hunger for Us” in Meet Me on the Plaza: Twenty-Five Years of the Southern Festival of Books, Serenity Gerbman, ed. Humanities Tennessee, 2013
- “What We Have Made: Celebrating the Fifth Birthday of Our Fortieth Child” in The Picador Book of 40, Charlotte Greig, ed. Picador, 2012
- “The Dead Sister Handbook: A Guide for Sensitive Boys (Laconic Method to Near Misses)” in Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, “Found” Texts and Other Fraudulent Artifacts, David Shields and Matthew Vollmer, eds. W. W. Norton, 2012
- “A Birth in the Woods” in The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012, Laura Furman, ed. Random House, 2012
- “Our Most Important Virtue” in Monsters: A Collection of Literary Sightings, B. J. Hollars, ed. Pressgang, 2012
- “Housewarming” in New Stories From the South, 2010, Amy Hempel and Kathy Pories, eds. Algonquin Books, 2010
- “Skin” in Best of the Web 2010, Kathy Fish and Matt Bell, eds. Dzanc Books, 2010
- “So Dark in the Wolf’s Maw” in First Year: An MLP Anthology, J. A. Tyler, ed. Mud Luscious Press, 2010
- “No Joke, This is Going To Be Painful” in New Stories From the South, 2009, Madison Smartt Bell and Kathy Pories, eds. Algonquin Books, 2009
- “Carried Away” in One Year to a Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer’s Art and Craft, Susan M. Tiberghien, ed. Marlowe & Company, 2007
- “Tunneling to the Center of the Earth” in New Stories From the South, 2006, Allan Gurganus and Kathy Pories, eds. Algonquin Books, 2006
- “The Choir Director Affair (The Baby’s Teeth)” in New Stories From the South, 2005, Shannon Ravenel, ed. Algonquin Books, 2005