Short Stories

419 DX

Accepted in December 2023 in The Penmen Review (609 words)

Alibi

-Accepted in October 2022 in Better Than Starbucks (50 words)

Alicia

Accepted in February 2022 in 365 Tomorrows (551 words)

Ambush

Accepted in March 2022 in Fiction on the Web (1338 words)

America Runs on Dunkin

Accepted in July 2022 in 101 Words (101 words)

Amicable

Accepted in June 2022 in The Drabble (50 words)

Ancient Chinese Remedy

Accepted in March 2022 in The Short Humour Site (200 words)

Anywhere

Accepted in February 2015 in The Short Humour Site (82 words)

Apocalypse

-Accepted in February 2015 in The One Million Stories Creative Writing Project (49 words)

Appearances

Accepted in May 2023 in Written Tales Chapbooks (138 words)

Apples and Wildebeasts, Of

Appears in 10 By 10 Flash Fiction, Issue 12 (100 words)

Appointed Rounds

Appears in A Home for Laika and Other Tails (210 words)

1,10Arachnophobia

Accepted in October 2015 in Flash Fiction Magazine (730 words)

Art Aficionados

Accepted in February 2022 in The Drabble (100 words)

At Peace

Accepted in December 2015 in The Zodiac Review  (971 words)

Bad Luck

Accepted in September 2022 in The Drabble; renamed to “He Walks Along” (96 words)

1Banana, The

-Accepted in September 2012 in Catesbury Sable Mare Tales (936 words)

Beautiful Symbiotic Relationship, A

Appears in A Home for Laika and Other Tails (335 words)

Bernie’s Friends

Accepted in April 2023 in Black Petals (775 words)

Big Dreams

Appears in Down On The Farm (2460 words)

Bird Job

Accepted in May 2014 in The Short Humour Site (1615 words)

Black Friday

Accepted in December 2015 in Down in the Dirt (1040 words)

2Blah Blah Spot, Blah Blah Blah

Accepted in March 2020 in Boston Literary Magazine; also published in A Home for Laika and Other Tails under the alternate name “Streams,” July 2021 (107 words)

Blessed Virgin, The

Accepted in October 2016 in Fiction on the Web (1281 words)

Blood Of The Lamb

Accepted in September 2015 in Children, Churches and Daddies (1371 words)

9Blue

Accepted in August 2022 in CafeLit (221 words)

1Boogeyman

-Accepted in December 2012 in BLINK! Fiction for the Time Impaired (148 words)

Borborygmus

Accepted in March 2022 in Altered Reality Magazine (74 words)

Bucky

Appears in Down On The Farm (998 words)

Cat Nipped

Accepted in June 2015 in Indiana Voice Journal (723 words)

1Chiral Nature

Accepted in January 2012 in The World of Myth (1060 words)

Choreography

Accepted in November 2015 in Dual Coast Magazine issue 3 (612 words)

Cloud, The

Accepted in March 2022 in Fifty Give or Take (42 words)

Conspiracy

Appears in A Home for Laika and Other Tails (365 words)

Cosmic Balance

Accepted by 50 Word Stories, November 2022 in 50 Word Stories (50 words)

Cosmic Joke

Accepted in March 2015 in The Short Humour Site (405 words)

Crabby

Accepted in January 2023 in 365 Tomorrows (738 words)

1Crossing Over

-Accepted in December 2011 in Catesbury Sable Mare Tales (1150 words)

Craving

Accepted in May 2022 in Altered Reality (306 words)

Cream Puff

Accepted in February 2022 in The Short Humour Site (334 words)

Cycle of Life

-Accepted in July 2022 in Alien Buddha Press (608 words)

Daggers

Appears in A Home for Laika and Other Tails (65 words)

Damned Lie, A

Accepted in April 2014 in The Short Humour Site (900 words)

Danger Will Robinson

Accepted in December 2020 in Altered Reality Magazine (94 words)

1Deadly Force

-Accepted in April 2013 in Used Gravitrons (629 words)

Demon Wind

Accepted in the 58th issue (Volume 15, number 2) of Wilderness House Literary Review (119 words)

Dipteran Relief

Accepted in May 2023 by Wicked Flashes of Fantasy: Anthology of Dark Fantasy Flash Fictions (104 words)

Divide By Zero

Accepted in August 2016 in The Short Humour Site (22 words)

Diary of an Alien

Accepted in Summer 2020 issue of Clever Magazine (1323 words)

Die-Off

Accepted in January 2022 in 50-Word Stories (50 words)

Dipteran Relief

Accepted in May 2023 in 10 By 10 Flash (104 words)

Divide by Zero

Accepted in August 2016 in The Short Humour Site (18 words)

Dr. Larry Love

Accepted in October 2015 in 101 Words (101 words)

Downward Flow

Accepted in, May 2020 in Boston Literary Magazine (123 words)

Drop Out

-Accepted in July 2015 in Dual Coast Magazine (974 words)

DTs, The

Accepted in December 2013 in The Short Humour Site (368 words)

Dull Witted

Accepted in March 2022 in The Short Humour Site (33 words)

Dunstable Horror, The

Accepted in December 2021 by 101 Words (101 words)

Earworm

Accepted in August 2022 in Scribes*MICRO*Fiction (100 words)

Eden

-Accepted in June 2016 in Zero Flash (246 words)

Either Way Guarantee

-Accepted in July 2024 in 10 By 10 Flash Fiction (426 words)

End of Days

-Accepted in February 2018 in The J.J. Outré Review (1294 words)

Energized

Appears in Down On The Farm (1940 words)

7Evolved

-Accepted in April 2015 in Danse Macabre (1705 words)

Executive Order

Accepted in April 2023 in The Fear of Monkeys (1223 words)

Exposure

Accepted in April 2015 in Microfiction Monday Magazine (100 words)

1Failure To Communicate, A

-Accepted in April 2013 in The J.J. Outré Review Review (939 words)

Fake News

Accepted in July 19 2018 in Children, Churches and Daddies (697 words)

Famous Underprices

Accepted in February 2022 in Danse Macabre (1863 words)

Fault, Dear Brutus, The

Accepted in February 2022 in Bagel with the Bards #15 (89 words)

Fight Night

Accepted in August 2022 in Bewildering Stories (1219 words)

Filings

Accepted in March 2016 in Indiana Voice Journal (1497 words)

Final Regrets

Accepted in May 2024 in Written Tales Magazine (88 words)

Final Resting Place

Accepted in September 2020 in Down in the Dirt, v175 (204 words)

Final Solution, The

Accepted in April 2016 in The Short Humour Site (24 words)

First Plague, The

Accepted in April 2016 in The Machinery (897 words)

Five Bottles

Accepted in December 2018 in 365 Tomorrows (575 words)

Food Chain

Accepted in February 2023 in Yellow Mama (1114 words)

Fractal Universe

Accepted in, October 2021 in 365 Tomorrows (292 words)

2Free Will

-Accepted in April 2015 in Boston Literary Magazine (249 words)

Friday Night

-Accepted in November 2016 in The Fiction Pool (25 words)

Full Complement

Accepted in August 2015 in Quail Bell (1552 words)

1Galaxy Tree

-Accepted in December 2015 in The Fable Online (1357 words)

Ghost Shark

Accepted in December 2023 in Lifespan Series (466 words)

Glue

Accepted in March 2023 in Microfiction Monday Magazine (101 words)

Gravity Hill

Accepted in February 2016 in The Penmen Review (1351 words)

9Gray

Accepted in January 2022 in Scribes*MICRO*Fiction (101 words)

1Great Fall, A

Accepted in July 2013 in Fiction on the Web (1095 words)

Groceries

Accepted in December 2017 in The Short Humour Site (229 words)

1Guardian, The

-Accepted in January 2014 in Static Movement (1287 words)

Harmless Prank

Accepted in January 2015 in The Short Humour Site (542 words)

Helping Hand

Accepted in August 2016 in Story Shack Magazine (845 words)

Heart to Heart

Appears in A Home for Laika and Other Tails (263 words)

Her Presence

Accepted in September 2022 in The World of Myth (79 words)

Hero, The

Accepted in February 2016 in 101 Words (101 words)

Holy Land

Accepted in, October 2020 in 101 Words (101 words)

Home for Laika, A

Appears in A Home for Laika and Other Tails (323 words)

Honeypot

Accepted in April 2023 in 365 Tomorrows (681 words)

Horst

Appears in Down On The Farm (1369 words)

1House of Bob, The

Accepted in June 2015 in The Literary Yard (752 words)

Hurry Up and Find God

Appears in A Home for Laika and Other Tails (168 words)

7If You Experience Any of These Symptoms

Accepted in December 2019 in Boston Literary Magazine (105 words)

Imaginary Companions

Accepted in May 2022 in Whisky Blot (144 words)

1Imagine

-Accepted in December 2013 in Quail Bell (99 words)

Impressionable Youth

Accepted in January 2023 in These Symptoms (140 words)

7In Control

Accepted in December 2015 in 101 Words (101 words)

In Good Company

Accepted in Bagels With the Bards #16, August 2023 (95 words)

1Incognito

Accepted in October 2102 in Nanoism (27 words)

9Inner Child

Accepted in January 2023 in These Symptoms (27 words)

2Intervention

-Accepted in February 2018 in Ariel Chart (1469 words)

1Jenna

Accepted in January 2014 in Bewildering Stories (600 words)

1,9Justice

Accepted in November 2012 in One Forty Fiction (12 words)

Karma

Accepted in August 2024 in The Rye Whiskey Review (531 words)

1Killing Machine

-Accepted in October 2015 in Calamities Press (367 words)

1Kiss, Bow, Or Shake Hands

Accepted in March 2015 in The Zodiac Review (653 words)

Klaatu Barada Nikto

Accepted in December 2020 in Altered Reality Magazine (107 words)

Lamed Vavnik

Accepted in “Lyrical Somerville” in the April 1 2020 issue of The Somerville Times (148 words)

Land of Make Believe, The

Accepted in January 2023 in 50 Give or Take (54 words)

Lanternfly Love

Accepted in May 2023 in On-The-High Literary Journal (110 words)

1Last Call

Accepted in January 2012 in Bleeding Ink Anthology (1079 words)

Last One In

Accepted in March 2015 in The Were-Traveler (100 words)

Last One, The

Accepted in April 2013 in One Forty Fiction (25 words)

1Last Resort, A

Accepted in November 2012 in Daily Science Fiction (595 words)

1Last War, The

Accepted in January 2014 in Fiction on the Web (1659 words)

Late Night Snack

-Accepted in September 2012 in The Rusty Nail (790 words)

Lemur Trouble

Accepted in February 2022 in The Short Humour Site (1760 words)

Leo Cravitz Incident, The

Accepted in June 2014 in The Short Humour Site (595 words)

Lesser of Two Evils, The

Accepted in January 2022 by CC&D Magazine, for the July 2022 issue (465 words)

1,7Levinson’s Cat

Accepted in September 2015 in MacroMicroCosm Literary & Art Journal (1553 words)

Life, Death, and Annoyances in Between

Accepted in October 2024 in 10 By 10 Flash Fiction (208 words)

Little Honey, A

-Accepted in June 2014 in Heater (1930 words)

1Little Thief, The

Accepted in February 2012 in Stupefying Stories (769 words)

Long Delayed Echo

Accepted in September 2022 in 365 Tomorrows (401 words)

9Look Away

Accepted in July 2023 in The Serulian (326 words)

Lovely Ride in the Park, A

Accepted in October 2020 in Bagel with the Bards #14 (127 words)

1Machine Feelings

Accepted in December 2011 in InfectiveINK.com (754 words)

1Makerspace

Accepted in November 2015 in Bewildering Stories (1839 words)

1,2Mixed Breed

-Accepted in December 2015 in Potluck Magazine (2127 words)

Mm-mu

Accepted in May 2014 in The Short Humour Site (570 words)

Moo

Accepted in June 2015 in The Short Humour Site (25 words)

More Memories

Accepted in June 2023 in Constellations: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction v.13: Deception (101 words)

Mother

Accepted in March 2024 in Yellow Mama Webzine (592 words)

Murder On The Eighty-Six

Accepted in March 2022 in Mystery Tribune (4929 words)

Mush

Accepted in December 2023 in Written Tales Magazine (107 words)

Namesake

Accepted in April 2022, in The Short Humour Site (37 words)

No Laughing Matter

-Accepted in November 2017 in (2077 words)

O Holy Night

Accepted in January 2022 in Five On the Fifth (955 words)

Obedience School

Appears in A Home for Laika and Other Tails (163 words)

Obvious Truth, An

Accepted in June 2015 in 101 Words (101 words)

Occam’s Razor

Accepted for publication in December 2021 in Altered Reality (331 words)

On Schedule

Accepted in on April 2023 in Half Hour to Kill (299 words)

On The Net and other Twabbles

-Accepted in November 2014 in Seven by Twenty

7One of Us

Accepted in January 2016 in Story Shack Magazine (780 words)

On-line Affair

Accepted in March 2014 in The Short Humour Site (497 words)

1Over Think The Plumbing

Accepted in January 2014 in The Short Humour Site (548 words)

Pariah

Accepted in May 2023 by 10 By 10 Flash (122 words)

1Payback

-Accepted in October 2012 in Blink! Fiction for the Time Impaired (244 words)

Paying it Backwards

Accepted in April 2018 in Bewildering Stories (2645 words)

1Perfect Fit, A

Accepted in October 2012 in Indiana Science Fiction Anthology Series (898 words)

1Pest

Accepted in June 2015 in Flash Fiction Magazine (1219 words)

Polychlorinated Fairy Tale

Accepted in May 2023 by Fictionette (162 words)

Poor Irish Bloke, A

Accepted in May 2018 in Fiction on the Web (1450 words)

Pound Sand

Accepted in January 2023 in These Symptoms (956 words)

Power to Heel, The

Accepted in April 2022 in 10×10 (147 words)

Precocious

Accepted in April 2016 in The Short Humour Site (49 words)

Prison Blues

Accepted in April 2016 in The Penmen Review (1391 words)

Profit and Loss

Accepted in September 2022 in The Fear of Monkeys (159 words)

Prophecy, The

Accepted in February 2015 in The Fear of Monkeys (2387 words)

Prose Interruptus

Accepted in March 2016 in The Short Humour Site (6 words)

1Protector

Accepted in March 2015 in Quail Bell (2724 words)

1,8Puff

Accepted in December 2015 in Fiction on the Web (1073 words)

1,7Purgare

Accepted in October 2015 in Literally Stories (2556 words)

1Purpose

Accepted in September 2012 in The Zodiac Review (173 words)

QRM

Accepted in October 2015 in The Short Humour Site (49 words)

Raggedy Ann

Accepted November 2022 by Written Tales (131 words)

Reaper

Accepted in August 2022 in Potato Soup Journal (1147 words)

7Rebound

Accepted in July 2022 in Yellow Mama (1135 words)

Recompense

Appears in Down On The Farm (1450 words); also appears in Bewildering Stories under the title “Moving Up”

2Record Breaker

Accepted in July 2020 in Boston Literary Magazine (91 words)

Red State Sis

Accepted in February 2015 in Children, Churches and Daddies (3510 words)

Redemption

Accepted in March 2022 in Underside Stories; accepted December, 2013 in The Literary Yard (1412 words)

Repent, Sinners

Accepted in October 2022 in 365 Tomorrows (200 words)

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Accepted in March 2024 in Written Tales Magazine (139 words)

Revenge is a Dish Best Served Cold

Accepted in July 2022 in The Chamber Magazine (361 words)

1,3Rewind

Accepted in September 2013 in The Short Humour Site (247 words)

1Riding The Waves

-Accepted in March 2016 in Nebula Rift (2660 words)

Rikki Don’t Lose That Number

Accepted in July 2022 in 100 Word Project (100 words)

Ring My Chimes

-Accepted in July 2014 in Microliterature (363 words)

Rite of Passage

Accepted in June 2022 in The Zodiac Review (133 words)

Ritual, The

-Accepted in April 2016 in Zero Flash (297 words)

Rocky Marriage, A

-Accepted in July 2022 in Granfalloon (781 words)

Rose Garden

Accepted in November 2015 in The Short Humour Site (18 words)

Routine

-Accepted in December 2017 in Clever Magazine (796 words)

1RTFM

Accepted in April 2015 in The Short Humour Site (12 words)

Running Man

Accepted in June 2016 in Children, Churches and Daddies (871 words)

Ruptured Space

Accepted in in the April 2020 issue of Boston Literary Magazine (89 words)

1Safari

Accepted in January 2016 in Flash Fiction Magazine (920 words)

Same

-Accepted in November 2012 in Flash Fiction World Contests (422 words)

Science Project

Accepted in March 2024 in 10 By 10 Flash Fiction (230 words)

Scientific Method, The

Accepted in August 2020 in Boston Literary Magazine (239 words)

Scollay Square

Accepted in May 2016 in Literally Stories (781 words)

Scruffy

Accepted in:
* September 2022 in Wilderness House Literary Review (972 words)
* April 2023 in Still Point Arts Quarterly

Selfie Bear

Accepted in September 2022 in The Short Humour Site (445 words)

Sibling Love

Accepted in April 2022 by CafeLit (607 words)

Sincerest Form of Flattery, The

Accepted as a 2nd Half 2019 Winner of the London Independent Story Prize (140 words)

Sky Defender

Accepted in May 2022 in 50 Give or Take (49 words)

Sky Fall

Accepted in September 2014 in The Short Humour Site (197 words)

1Skyfall

-Accepted in August 2013 in Separate Worlds (1907 words)

Small Talk

Accepted in March 2016 in Quail Bell (376 words)

Snark Hunt

-Accepted in March 2015 in Upender and August 2023 in Rat World (78 words)

1Some Mighty Fine Wine

Accepted in October 2012 in Fiction on the Web (670 words)

8Speaker To Animals

-Accepted in September 2016 in Aphelion (1516 words)

Splendid Isolation

-Accepted in May 2024 in Constellations: A Journal of Poetry & Fiction (57 words)

1Spring Break

Accepted in April 2015 in Fiction on the Web (3230 words)

1,5,8Spurs That Jingle Jangle Jingle

Accepted in February 2015 in Fiction on the Web (1442 words)

6Star Dust

Accepted in October 2017 in Fiction on the Web (1357 words)

Staring Contest

-Accepted in March 2014 in Flashes in the Pan/Flim-Flam (709 words)

Starting Over

Accepted in February 2015 in The One Million Stories Creative Writing Project, and in June 2023 in Litmora Literary Magazine (143 words)

Stinky

Accepted in March 2013 in Clever Magazine (998 words)

Stomach Ache

-Accepted in September 2016 in Zero Flash (101 words)

Stop Me

Accepted in February 2017 in Dime Show Review (10 words)

1Tabby Cat

Accepted in May 2014 in Danse Macabre (832 words)

Testament

Accepted in June 2023 in Constellations: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction v.13: Deception (53 words)

That Killing Feeling

Accepted in June 2016 in Postcard Shorts (294 words)

Them Bones

Accepted in August 2022 in 101 Words (101 words)

They’re Here

Accepted in September 2017 in Bewildering Stories (998 words)

Thirsty Horse

Accepted in July 2016 in Dime Show Review (11 words)

This is London Calling

Accepted in December 2021 in 365 Tomorrows (464 words)

This Too Shall Pass

Accepted in June 2019 in Bagels With the Bards #13 (132 words)

Those Two Legs

Accepted in April 2016 in The Magnolia Review, Volume 2 Issue 2 (1382 words)

Thy Will Be Done

Accepted in November 2015 in The Fear of Monkeys (2092 words)

Tipped

-Accepted in January 2015 in The Commonline Journal (1902 words)

To Have And To Hold

Accepted in October 2015 in The Literary Yard (246 words)

1Tormentors

-Accepted in March 2012 in Separate Worlds (1555 words)

1Tough Nut To Crack, A

-Accepted in January 2014 in Microliterature (872 words)

Tragic Fates

Accepted in June 2022 in 10 By 10 Flash Fiction (458 words)

Treasure

Accepted March 2024 in Constellations: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction (238 words)

1Trap, The

-Accepted in January 2012 in Daily Frights Anthology Series (538 words)

Trash Day

Accepted in March 2023 in CafeLit (223 words)

1Truth Is Out There, The

-Accepted in November 2013 in Alfie Dog Fiction (1623 words)

1Unformed

Accepted in December 2011 in The Zodiac Review (197 words)

Unicycles

Accepted in September 2016 in Dime Show Review (10 words)

Unity

Accepted in May 2022 in Literally Stories (509 words)

4Unrequited Love

-Accepted in October 2012 in Boston Literary Magazine (169 words)

1Valley of Gold

Accepted in March 2012 in Separate Worlds and in May 2023 in Defuncted: A Collection of Abandoned Things (973 words)

Vegetarian Fate

Accepted in April 2015 in The Short Humour Site (140 words)

Vengeance

Accepted in June 2014 in The Short Humour Site (505 words)

Waiting For Anna

Accepted in January 2014 in The Fear of Monkeys (1925 words)

1Wanna Play A Game?

-Accepted in November 2013 in Alfie Dog Fiction (920 words)

Weddings and Funerals

Accepted in May 2023 in Fictionette Magazine (123 words)

Whack Job

-Accepted in March 2015 in Pure Fantasy and Sci-Fi (831 words)

What Goes Around Floats Around

Accepted in November 2020 in Wilderness House Literary Review (98 words)

1What Might Have Been

Accepted in March 2015 in Midnight Circus (300 words)

1When Pigs Fly

Accepted in September 2012 in Bewildering Stories (300 words)

9When Your Girl Has Left You

Accepted in May 2012 in 50 Give or Take (45 words)

White Nothing, The

Accepted in February 2017 in The Darkness Within Ezine and August 2023 in Yellow Mama Webzine (581 words)

9Wishing Well

-Accepted in September 2022 in Blink-Ink (52 words)

Woman of My Dreams, The

Accepted in March 2022  by CafeLit (305 words)

Woman’s Intuition

Accepted in October 2014 in The Short Humour Site (490 words)

Writer’s Block

Accepted in September 2022 in 10 By 10 Flash Fiction (104 words)

Zone of Peace and Tranquility, A

Appears in Bark & Bone, October 2023

(1) title also appears in Machine Feelings and Other Stories by Phil Temples from Big Table Publishing Company, ISBN 0996988734
(2) title also appears in A Home for Laika and Other Tails by Phillip E. Temples from Big Table Publishing Company, ISBN 978-1-945917-66-0
(3) title also appears in People of Few Words – Volume 5, November 2014 ISBN: 978-1-326-05204-1
(4) title also appears in The Best of Boston Literary Magazine Volume One, June 2016 from Big Table Publishing
(5) title also appears in The Best of Fiction on the Web: 1996-2017,ISBN 9780992693916
(6) title also appears in Strange Wars: Speculative Fiction of Coalitions in Conflict, ISBN 978-1-7781238-1-8
(7) title also appears in These Symptoms by Phillip E. Temples from Alien Buddha Press, ISBN 979-8373402828
(8) title also appears in Down On The Farm: Spacey Tails from Flyover Country by Phillip E. Temples from Alien Buddha Press, ISBN 979-8377104100
(9) title also appears in Watertown Lit Squad’s Poets’ & Writers’ Sampler 2023, ISBN 979-8851915109

(10) title also appears in Castor and Pollux Raise a Little Cain, 2024 (tent.)