Short Fiction

Brighter Than Anything on Earth

  • Fantasy, 4300 words. “The chosen one was just a game we played when we were children.”

  • Forthcoming in Worlds of Possibility, 2025

Limb from Limb

  • Fantasy, 5000 words. “I dream of fire.”

  • Forthcoming in Trollbreath Magazine, December 2024

Milk Teeth

  • Gothic Horror, 5600 words. “The first time Father went away was the week of my twelfth birthday.”

  • Reprinted in Moon Falling from Flame Tree Press, Autumn 2024

  • Published in Weird Horror 4, March 2022 with art by David Bowman

Six Meals at Fanelli’s

Mother’s Milk

  • Horror, 3300 words. “She was and she was not changing.”

  • Reviewed by Maria Haskins at Maria’s Reading

  • Published in Weird Horror 7, September 2023 with art by Neil Ballantyne

A Touch of Magic

  • Fantasy, 3000 words. “Jane Heldin was looking for three things in a home: a short commute, a nice kitchen, and a chance to finally be happy.”

  • Read on Story Hour, June 2024

  • Published in Kaleidotrope, Summer 2022

The Big Deep

  • Science Fiction, 3200 words. “The terminal in our stasis room must have glitched.”

  • Published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, July/August 2022

Phosphor’s Circle

Prairie Fever

  • Western, 2300 words. “The wind’s at it again.”

  • Published in CRAFT Literary, January 2020

Flash Fiction

When the Tide Comes in

  • Fantasy, 900 words. “When I was in my twenties, I dated the moon.”

  • Forthcoming in Small Wonders, December 2024

Every Taco Bell in America

  • Portal Fantasy, 1000 words. “Every Taco Bell in America has a portal somewhere in it that takes you to the original Taco Bell.”

  • Forthcoming in If There’s Anyone Left, Volume 5

Transmissions From a Dying Whale

  • Science Fiction, 725 words. “Nothing new to report. The whale is still dying.”

  • Published in Archive of the Odd 4, June 2024

Say a Prayer to the New God

  • Fantasy, 1000 words. “I am a soldier. During war times, I carry a heavy iron weapon and I defend the old gods.”

  • Published in Bullet Points, April 2024

Heartbeats

  • Fantasy, 1025 words. “Her stepfather built the house on the mountain the year she was born.”

  • Published in Worlds of Possibility, December 2023

How to be a Ghost

  • Fantasy, 910 words. “Most days I don’t miss having a body.”

  • Published in Worlds of Possibility, February 2023

AITA for throwing away my wife’s haunted dolls?

The Creature

  • Horror, 28 words. “It emerges from the lagoon like Esther Williams…”

  • Contest Finalist in A Monster Comes from Gotham Writers, December 2021

Ladykiller

  • Horror, 1212 words. “I wait until we’re over the county line to stop at a gas station.”

  • Published in Hallowzine, October 2021

The Little Sea Maid

  • Fantasy, 237 words. “Deep in the sea, Maris, youngest daughter of Amphitrite, dreamed of the surface.”

  • Reprinted in Mermaids Monthly, January 2021 with art by Gabriel Klein

  • Published in Enchanted Conversation (aka Fairytale Magazine), February 2018

Anaphora (Ten Ways to Greet a Time Traveler)

  • Science Fiction, 616 words. “Plato was not terribly surprised when the time traveler arrived.”

  • Nominated for the Pushcart Prize

  • Published in Milk Candy Review, January 2021

How to Divide a Library

  • Literary, 750 words. “Did you know when you bought this for me for Christmas?”

  • Published in HAD, August 2020

Poetry

Skyscraper

How a Xenomorph Knows

  • 66 lines. “There was a pink supermoon on lesbian visibility day and I asked / My girlfriend to go to the moon with me”

  • Longlisted for the Rhysling Award

  • Reviewed by Charles Payseur in Locus Magazine

  • Published in Kaleidotrope, Winter 2023

I’m Basically Helen of Troy

  • 20 lines. “First he sent me gifts, and you know / A girl is not impartial to such things as cheese”

  • Reviewed by Charles Payseur in Locus Magazine

  • Published in Kaleidotrope, Spring 2023