fiction

“It Is Certain” will be published in Conjunctions magazine, in the Revenants issue out this fall, co-edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Bradford Morrow. This collection features excellent company: Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Graham Jones, and Carmen Maria Machado, to name a few. To say I’m thrilled about it is an understatement.  A ghost must find a means of escape, trapped in the in-between.   (link up soon)

“Endless Mother” was a finalist in the Molotov Cocktail’s Killer Flash competition. Immortality can grow tiresome…
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“Moth Lake” will be in Issue 7.3 of Augur magazine. What awaits the unyielding pull, calling you into the inner forest?
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“When the Leaves Fell” will come out in 2024 in the Exhile Editions anthology Through the Portal: Stories from a Hopeful Dystopia.
Do the trees have a final message for us?

“Sand Penis” received second place in subTerrain magazine’s 2023 Lush Triumphant Awards.
A school outing at the beach goes horribly wrong.
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“Cha-ka, Patron Saint of Ice” was in the 2023 fall/winter issue of december magazine vol. 34.2
The consequences of bullying come full circle, fuelled by the fury of La Muerte.
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“Nesting” was in the Spring 2021 “For the Love of Animals” Issue 42, Prairie Fire magazine.
Three cul-de-sac families battle their inner demons as they’re held hostage by giant birds.
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“The Trade” was a Fractured Lit finalist in 2021 and a CRAFT flash fiction finalist in 2020, later printed in the 2022 speculative issue of Orca magazine.
A strange story featuring a tornado, a couple, and their forever-altered dogs.
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 “Piranha” was in the fall 2021 issue of The Antigonish Review.
A woman’s stick and poke tattoo narrates her inner truth.
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“It Can be Done With Words” received an Honourable Mention in Pulp Literature’s 2020 Raven Short Story Contest. This piece was long-listed in PRISM International’s 2020 Jacob Zilber Prize.
An author changes the fabric of time with his words.
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“It Can’t Hurt” was commissioned for in the 2019 Feathertale Review, Issue 23.
A millennial tries a shortcut to enlightenment with dire results.  

“Beach Buddy” was in Issue 22 of the Feathertale Review.
A day with Nick Cave at the beach.
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“The Chemistry of Unhappiness” placed second in EVENT magazine’s 2019 speculative fiction contest, published in Issue 48.1.

“The Brothers” was published in the 2018 anthology Haunted are these Houses–the brainchild of Eddie Generous.
Dangerous waters surround the lighthouse island, but what else lurks there for marooned visitors?
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“Thin Crust” Winner, 2016 Whistler Adventure Writers Camp, later published in March 2017 of The Walrus magazine. Chosen by judge and award-winning writer/Giller nominee Heather O’Neill.
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“Thin Crust is a delightful parable about the end of the world. It is a story about the interconnectivity of people on the earth and the sweet and fragile nature of everything that happens on it. It is a tale of the apocalypse told in tiny, precise, and perfect moments.”  Heather O’Neill

“Not knowing in advance that Erin MacNair’s “Thin Crust” was sci-fi, I quite appreciated when that element made itself known. She sets the scene so peacefully with a fisherman just before the break of dawn and then, it happens. I won’t spoil it except to say that it’s an apocalyptic tale similar in some ways to Stephen King’s The Langoliers. Or maybe Horton Hears a Who. Or Marvel’s Galactus. Delightfully weird end of days story.” John Mutford of Readers Diary ––The Book Mine Set (Canadian reviews)

“Left Standing” third place in the Canadian Authors Association 2015 fiction contest.
What’s left behind after a savage storm rips through a small town?

“Detritus” Winner, Vancouver West End Writers Club 2013 fiction contest, judged by Dennis E. Bolen.
A couple breaks up after having very different reactions to finding a body.