“After the Blues,” Sucarnocche Review,” forthcoming, Spring, 2026.
“The Day I Heard the Secret of the Universe,” 42-Word Short Story Anthology, BAM; December, 2024.
“Autumn Outrage,” Works Progress Substack, September 2023.
“Rachel (Not) Getting Married,” True Stories About Love, Vol. 2, Chicago Story Press, 2023.
“Interim,” Voices de la Luna, Nov. 2022.
“A Fresher Clime,” The Power of the Pause: A Wising Up Anthology, Oct. 2022.
“Cordie’s Call,” L’Esprit Literary Review: Modern Day 22 issue; Summer, 2022.https://lespritliteraryreview.org/2022/06/15/cordies-call/
Anatomy of Circumstance (a novel, ch. 2, excerpt) Woven Tale Press, June, 2022. https://online.flipbuilder.com/eovs/rmnj/
Anatomy of Circumstance (a novel, ch. 1); Woven Tale Press, July, 2021. https://www.thewoventalepress.net/2021/07/27/anatomy-of-circumstance/
“Silver Spoons,” http://soundcloud.com/2ndhandpodcast/episode-20. June, 2017. (Hear me read this story on this podcast.)
“R & R,” Medical Literary Messenger, Summer, 2017. Hear me read: http://soundcloud.com/2ndhandpodcast/episode-18. May, 2017.
Anatomy of Sadness (novel; ch. 1 excerpt), Folia, Winter, 2016.
“Catch and Release,” The MacGuffin, Fall 2015.
“Buddy’s Sputnik,” Riding Light Review. Fall 2014.
“Quantum Love.” KYSO Journal. Oct. 2014.
“Garbage Cannes,” Ch. 1, Flyover Country Review. August 2014. Reading & interview at http://www.theotherstories.org/episodes/episode-110-garbage-cannes-by-claude-clayton-smith/.
Anatomy of Sadness. Ch. 1, Works-in-Progress Journal, June 2014, followed by an interview on this novel.
“Garbage Cannes” (the novella), Conium Review, Summer, 2013.
“At Brokmeyer’s House,” Conte Magazine, Spring 2013.
“Cold Turkey,” Brink Literary Project, 2013.
From the Florida Room (novel, ch. 1), Tidal Basin Review. Summer 2011.
“Angel Flight.” Sacred Fools Anthology. Sacred Fools Press, 2011.
“U.F.O.” in XX Eccentric: Stories About the Eccentricities of Women,
Main Street Rag: Charlotte, NC, 2009.
“Jet Lag,” Midway Review, Chicago, IL. December, 1983.
“In the Off-Season,” The Sonora Review. University of Arizona, Spring 1982.