Comics
The Father
forthcoming from New Letters
Ashamed
forthcoming from Black Warrior Review
available online soon
Waffles
forthcoming from The Rumpus
available online soon
Pinkies
published by Solstice Literary Magazine, Spring 2026
available online
Lift the pinky by the tail. Make sure your grip is firm but not too tight. Don't hurt it. Whatever you do, don't hurt it.
Wanna Hear Something Stupid I Did Today?
published by Sweet: A Literary Confection, Summer 2025
available online
Our Boots Caked With This Mud
published by Sweet: A Literary Confection, Fall 2021
available online
There was no opening act. Only silence...
Ironman
published by Hobart, Summer 2019
available online
In the morning, I opened fewer G.I. Joes. Fewer video games. Then my father showed me what he had built...
One-Way Ticket to the Promised Land
published by Sweet: A Literary Confection, Summer 2018
available online
When I was a kid, my dad drove a county bus. I loved it. He had a holster for his hole punch. Kids at school thought he was a cop...
The Uncanny Uncle Dave in the Insatiability of Man
published by Nashville Review, Winter 2016
available online
A writing professor in graduate school spoke often about this idea of "having it all." He listed four main areas of life: health, family, work, and writing. The catch, he said, was that you can only focus on three aspects at any given time...
Enough
published in Breakers: An Anthology of Comics by So What? Press, 2013
available in print
Do Not Read Out Loud
drawn by Sean Ironman, written by Laurie Rachkus Uttich
published by River Teeth, Winter 2013
available online