Short Stories

A full moon

“Moon Viewing: California // Missouri”
Queerbook (It Gets Better), May 2024 | creative nonfiction
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“We’re writers, she and I, separated now by thousands of miles, but sharing these little words that make the world feel new and bountiful.“

A strawberry falling into water

“The Planned Obsolescence of the Human Body”
We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2022 (Neon Hemlock Press), Oct. 2023 | sci-fi
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“I was old and very tired when
consciousness went online.”

Recommended by Charles Payseur
(
Locus August 2022) >>

Originally printed in Fusion Fragment Issue 11 >>

A wooden hut on a beach by the ocean

“Who Is Truly Alone on the Beach?”
Baffling Issue 13, Oct. 2023 | dark fantasy
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“With the voices of the ocean for company, she couldn’t be lonely. So she says.“

A roaring waterfall and river running between black rocks

“What the Water Carries”
Uncharted Magazine, March 2023 | fantasy
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“I carry corpses. In the end, everything comes back to this.”

Nominated for the Pushcart Prize

A white rabbit against a pale backdrop

“The Monologue of a Moon Goddess in the Palace of Pervasive Cold”
Diabolical Plots, Feb. 2023 | contemporary fantasy/retelling
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“I am fading. Every year, it takes a thicker layer of makeup to paint on my celestial visage.“

Recommended by Alex Brown (Tor.com) >>

A white marble sculpture of a woman's head

“Eurydice*”
O+E Unbound (Air and Nothingness Press), 2022 | sci-fi/retelling
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“He included the asterisk because, technically, he hadn’t gotten past Eurydice yet. But he knew exactly how to do it: his Lyre expansion, a.k.a. Realm of Olympus’s best-kept secret.”

The Earth seen from space

“The Gentleness of Fear”
Ghost Orchid Press, 2021 | sci-fi/horror
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“On launch day, I learned: fear is gentle in space.“

A bottle of black ink with a pen

“Stranger Stories”
Queer Sci Fi, 2021 | dark fantasy
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“At night, if no one’s with me, I go out. People send me their stories.”

Flash Fiction Contest Honorable Mention

Novels

A close-up of a loaf of bread

The Bakers of the Floating Mountain
work in progress | YA fantasy

A cozy fantasy born from my love of Howl’s Moving Castle and The Great British Bake-Off. The wrong person ends up in a magical baking competition; chaos (and cornets and crepe cakes and all sorts of other goodies) ensue.

A white lighthouse on a cliff

Blood in the Water
work in progress | YA fantasy

Nightmares are real, and they live in the sea, and it’s the Seakeeper’s job to shepherd them onto land every night. They don’t die — until now.
So: What can make a nightmare bleed?