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
Fantasy, 4200 words. “The first thing you need to know is that Nora’s father is dead.”
Finalist for the WSFA 2024 Small Press Award
Published in Fusion Fragment 16, April 2023
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
Science Fiction, 3000 words. “They only gave me the job because I’d been in the school play.”
Reprinted in Haven Speculative Magazine, November/December 2021
Q&A in From Earth to the Stars
Published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, May/June 2021
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?
Horror, 900 words. “My wife (f42) and I (f43) have been married for 15 years.”
Included in Reactor Mag’s Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for October 2022 by Alex Brown
Published in The Future Fire, October 2022
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
21 lines. “I was thinking today of a / world without traffic lights”
Displayed at the Climate Imaginarium on Governor’s Island, NYC, Summer 2024
Reprinted in Haven Speculative Magazine, September 2022
Reviewed by Charles Payseur in Quick Sip Reviews
Published in Fireside Quarterly, January 2020
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