“Taking Flight” at the Boston Globe
“The Winter of Life” at Halfway Down the Stairs
“How a Stray Dog Infiltrated My Writing Life” at Please See Me
“How We Remember Distant Trauma” at Redrosethorns
“Chasing a Bear While Almost Bare-Naked” at Storyhouse
“Living a Life in Cars” at Oyster River Pages”
“Trying to be Brave” at Barzakh Magazine
“How Oscar Changed My Life” at Magnets and Ladders
“The Rudest Woman in Bundenhof” at Eclectica Magazine
“The Hottest Woman in Scandinavia” at Eclectica Magazine
“The Coolest Pilot in London” at Eclectica Magazine
When My Son Asked About Drugs, Dogs, Death, and Sex at The Good Men Project
When My Son Asked About the Internet, Pentium Chips, and My Ex-Wives at The Good Men Project
When My Three-Year-Old Son Asked About Peace on Earth at The Good Men Project
When my Son Asked if I was Afraid of Anything at The Good Men Project
When My Son Asked About Pornography and the Tooth Fairy –The Good Men Project
On Becoming J. D. Salinger – Adelaide Literary Awards Anthology
“Teaching Teens Respect Means Saying ‘Please'” at Your Teen Magazine
“Letters of Concern” at The Ravens Perch literary magazine
“The Problem with Winnie the Pooh” at Book Ends Review
“Eating Anything You Want Until You’re a Hundred” at Months to Years
“Our Son Wished for Us to Die Together” at 7th Circle Pyrite
https://lowestoftchronicle.com/issues/issue64/kurtgschmidt/ “How Becoming a Parent Healed Me” – Lowestoft Chronicle
Trying to Forgive My Mother as She Neared a Hundred – Vernacular Journal
“As a New Pilot, My Son Wanted to Take Me Up” –Rock Salt Journal
https://www.rocksaltjournal.com/fall-2025#page-section-68d589ed4b12de09ba20998d
“My Bodies Three Saviors” – Breath and Shadow https://www.abilitymaine.org/bs2025summer/my-body%E2%80%99s-three-saviors
https://www.empyreanliterarymagazine.com/schmidt-violating-the-honor-code-at-annapolis.html
Kurt Schmidt–Moxie Versus The Deer (A cat and deer story) – Storyhouse
https://www.themerseyreview.com/issues/6/farmerhenrytaughtmeallmycusswords “Farmer Henry Taught Me All My Cuss Words” – The Mersey Review