Fiction

Fiction Collection

Success: Stories

The stories in the award-winning fiction collection, Success: Stories, invite you into lives of characters caught in our increasingly intertwined world. The short stories offer a glimpse of human nature in many settings. The dramas come to life with humor and feeling. Best-selling author Caroline Leavitt writes, “Taylor unpeels the lives and loves of ordinary people to reveal nuggets of extraordinary truths…Deceptively spare and absolutely unforgettable.” Buy it from Bookshop.org.

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More Short Fiction

• Drawing Animals appears in the anthology, America’s Future, an anthology from Washington Writers’ Publishing House. See a video of me reading the story’s opening.
• The Shiva Option – The Writing Disorder, Fall 2025
• Flight Risk – in Subnivean literary magazine #10 
• Guys Like That – in This is What America Looks Like, another anthology from Washington Writers’ Publishing House
• Humane Society – in Gargoyle #71. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize
• That Red Vest – in The MacGuffin.
• Lovely, Dark and Deep – in Gargoyle #61.
• Bingo – in Washington City Paper‘s first Fiction Issue.
• May Day – in The Jabberwock Review.
• Pelagro – in Eclectica, and in the anthology, Eclectica’s Best Fiction, Volume One.
  Buy the book. Reviewers call Pelagro a “tightly composed and satisfying story,… equally compelling in dealing with the complexities of one’s limitations and failures, within the context of a father and son relationship.”
• Monsters – in Pindeldyboz. Named a Notable Online Story by Story South.
• Errand – in Eclectica. Named a Notable Online Story of 2004 in the Million Writers Award.
• Child Thief – in Potomac Review #34.