Recent-ish goodlinesses
Schooling for Coach
Forthcoming from Bourbon Penn, this is a short, dark, humorous story about the unexpectedly high stakes of a junior varsity basketball team trying to learn a new play from their coach, who is also their biology teacher, who is also a little bit obsessed with the Selfish Herd Theory.
Where’s Trish?
Aliens visit a suburban neighborhood to pick up some smoothies, or something like that. Published in Rat Bag Lit, July 2026.
Richard’s Christening, June 1957
Not sure if you’ve ever noticed, but strange, dark things lurk just below the surface of ‘our’ world, and who’s to say those things aren’t part of our most beloved rituals? What could possible be dark about a christening, though? Read this micro in The Ekphrastic Review and find out.
Next Level Brew
Another apocalypse drabble, this one like a cup of sweetened with social bias. Published in Rat Bag Lit, August 2026
To Eddy, Wondering Why
Appearing in the Chestnut Review Spring 2026 issue, this is my first published nonfiction story, and is about being molested as a kid and some of the psychological aftermath. It isn’t graphic, but be warned, it’s a tough read.
The Village You Did Not Make
A micro that emerged during a writing retreat in the medieval Italian village of Casperia. The week was magical – the village, our hosts, the other writers – everything. If there’s magic in the story, it’s decanted from all the glories that abounded there. Published at The Hoolet’s Nook.
About Chip
Chip has published forty-something stories in Bourbon Penn, PodCastle, Molotov Cocktail, PULP Literature, Chestnut Review, and many other journals, magazines, and anthologies. The majority of his publications are micro and flash fiction, including a collection called Dark Morsels with Red Bird Chapbooks.
