Published Fiction

The list below is a mix of fantasy, science fiction, horror, and other short stories I’ve published in various magazines. My newest stories are listed first. Some are behind a paywall, require a purchase, or are out of print, but most are free to read or listen to online.

Of course, “free to read” doesn’t mean “free to produce”!

If you enjoyed a story of mine, please consider purchasing a copy using the links below (when applicable) or by subscribing to the magazine that published it. I also recommend the SFF magazine subscription tool, maintained by Jeff Reynolds, which lists ways you can subscribe to or support science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazines.

I also have a list of Published Fiction in Other Languages.


 

Forthcoming

  • “Flowers for an Infinite Grave” – Kaleidotrope
  • “The List Making Habits of Heart-Broken Ships” – Neurodiversiverse (Thinking Ink Books)
  • “White Lies Cast Dark Shadows” – Carpe Noctem (Tyche Books)

2024

2023

  • “Magic Dad’s Cookie Bites”
  • “Six Ways to Get Past the Shadow Shogun’s Goons, and One Thing to Do When You Get There”
  • “Four Scenes from Proxima b”

2022

  • “The Spread of Space and Endless Devastation”
  • “Veracity’s Find”
    • Wizards in Space 8, November 2022 – buy a copy
  • “The Labyrinth’s Daughter”
  • “What Not to Do When You’re Polymorphed and Stuck in a Time Loop”
  • “The Nature of Stones”
    • Prismatic Dreams, All Worlds Wayfarer, June 2022 – buy a copy
  • “The Calligrapher’s Granddaughter”
  • “A Difference of Opinion”
    • Kaleidotrope, April 2022 – read online
    • Learning to Be Human from Flame Tree Publishing, February 2024 (forthcoming)

2021

  • “A Lay of Light and Anger”
  • “How to Escape from the Marches”
    • Infinite Worlds #9, September 2021 – buy a copy
    • The Initialization of Briar Rose, September 2023 – buy a copy
  • “No Blood of My Heart, No Breath of My Lungs, But Love”
  • “Five Books from the Alnif Crater Travelling Library”
  • “The Future, One Summer Behind”
  • “Letters Submitted to the Department of Chronology in Place of a Thesis”
    • Black Eyed Peas on New Year’s Day, April, 2021 – buy a copy

2020

  • “How They Name the Ships”
  • “Maricourt’s Waters, Quiet and Deep”
    • No Police = Know Future, December 9, 2020 – buy a copy
    • Fight the Future, forthcoming
  • “Five Things I Hate about Phobos”
  • “Scenes from the End of a World”
    • All Worlds Wayfarer, June 20, 2020
  • “At the Edge of a Human Path”
    • 87 Bedford Historical Anthology, June 15, 2020 – read online
  • “Against the Dying of the Light”
  • “My Decohering Heart”
    • Quantum Shorts Competition, February 2020

2019

  • “Music, Love, and Other Things the Cat has Peed on”
    • Punk Rock Future, October 2019 – buy a copy
    • This is not a Punk Rock Anthology, This is a New Wave Anthology
  • “Three Tales the River Told”
  • “The Colours of Europa, the Colours of Home”
  • “How to Break Causality and Write the Perfect Time Travel Story”
    • Translunar Travellers’ Lounge, August 15, 2019 – read online or buy a copy
    • ChoroChronos Archives, JayHenge Publishing, 2021
  • “Communications from the Honeymoon Suite”
    • Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove from Atthis Arts, May 7, 2019 – buy a copy

2018

  • “Memorial Park”
  • “Words I’ve Redefined Since Your Dinosaurs Invaded My Lunar Lair”
    • Flash Fiction Online, October 1, 2018 – read online
  • “Failsafes”
  • “The City, Like Time”
    • Kasma SF, April 2018

2017

  • “Mercy at Eltshan-Time”
    • Intergalactic Medicine Show, December 2017 – read online
    • Kasma SF, May 2020
    • Strange Wars, April 2022 – buy a copy
  • “Something on Your Mind,” (with Gareth D Jones, Anatoly Belilovsky, Robert Dawson, Kate Heartfield, Holly Heisey, CL Holland, Laurie Tom, and Deborah Walker)
  • “Blood-Stained Letters Found in a Roadside Shrine on the Outskirts of Kyoto”
  • “Cut-Rate Couples Weekend at the Witch House Inne and Tavern (9 reviews)”
  • “Kuriko”
    • Tales of the Sunrise Lands, July 2017 – buy a copy
    • Summer of SFF Volume 3 (forthcoming)
  • Doge Coefficient
  • What She Left Behind
  • “The Monsters Your Mother Still Asks About”
    • Great Jones Street, May 2017
    • Worlds of Possibility, February 2023 – subscribe to read
  • “The Thing About Heisenball”
  • “Sharp as Sunrise”
    • Princess Fairy Tale Anthology, Fantasia Divinity, April 2017
  • “The Abbot’s Garden”
    • Bards & Sages publishing, March 24, 2017 – buy a copy
  • How I Became Coruscating Queen of All the Realms, Pierced the Obsidian Night, Destroyed a Legendary Sword, and Saved My Heart’s True Love,” (with Matt Dovey as Baker and Dovey)

2016

  • “Proceedings from the First and Only Sixteenth Annual One-Woman Symposium on Time Manipulation”
  • “Fallinghome: A Reevaluation”
  • “The Plumes of Enceladus”
  • “Five Recipes You Can’t Live Without”
  • “The View from Driftwise Spindle”
    • Intergalactic Medicine Show, July 9, 2016 – read online
  • “Images Across a Shattered Sea”
    • Writers of the Future, volume 32, May 4 2016
    • Sub-Q Magazine, July 11, 2016 (interactive version)
    • The Overcast, December 27, 2016 – listen online
    • Kasma SF, November 1 2016
    • Best Vegan SFF of 2016, April 22, 2017 – buy a copy
    • Great Jones Street, April 2017
    • Wizards in Space, Spring 2020
  • “Just Another Night at the Abandoned Draft Bar and Grill”
    • Galaxy’s Edge, May 2016

2015

  • “Excerpt from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th Edition Regarding the Departed”
  • “Elements of a Successful Exit Broadcast”
    • Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, November 2015
  • “Fugue in a Minor Key”
    • Galaxy’s Edge, November 1, 2015
  • “Love and Relativity”
  • “Concerning Your Recent Creation of Sentient Horse-things on the Next Planet Over”
    • Flash Fiction Online, August 1, 2015 – read online
    • Mad Scientist Journal, Winter 2018 – buy a copy
    • Toasted Cake (audio version), February 24, 2019 – listen online
    • Androids and Dragons, forthcoming
  • “Masks”
    • SFComet, March 2015 edition
    • Dark Matter Magazine Issue 2, March 2021 – read online
  • “Configuring Your Quantum Disambiguator”
  • “Some Salient Details About Your Former Lives”
    • Plasma Frequency, January/February 2015
  • “Nikumaroro, July 1937”
    • Fine Linen Magazine, January 2015

2014

  • “Little More than Shadows”
    • Daily Science Fiction, November 18, 2014 – read online
  • “The Mother of Sands”
    • Tales of Mystery, Suspense & Terror, October 31 2014
    • Beyond Steampunk, Old Sins Publishing, April 2018 – buy a copy
    • Spirits and Ghouls Short Stories, September 26, 2023, – buy a copy
    • Creepy Podcast (audio), forthcoming
  • “The Robotic Poet reads Basho”
    • Beyond Borderlands, September 23 2014
    • Big Echo, January 2019 – read online
  • “They Come in Waves”
    • Freeze Frame Fiction, July 1 2014 – read online
    • Horror for the Throne, 2020
  • “Subtle Vibrato”
    • SpeckLit, May 11 2014
    • The Martian, 2021
  • “Ascension”
    • Plasma Frequency, April/May 2014
  • “Homecoming”
    • SpeckLit, April 7 2014
  • “Oubliette”
    • Flash Fiction Online, April 1, 2014 – read online
    • QuickFic 2, Digital fiction Publishing, 2016
  • “Butterflies”
    • Spark: A Creative Anthology, January 1, 2014
    • Strange Constellations (as “The Butterfly Disjunct”), August 12, 2016
    • The Overcast, October 2018 – listen online
    • Sunshine Superhighway, JayHenge Publishing, 2020 – buy a copy
  • “Selections from the Aarne-Thompson Index for After the End of Things”
    • The Next Review, #3, January 13, 2014
    • Sockdolager, March 2015 – read online

2013

  • “Raising Words”
    • Penumbra eZine, July 2013
    • My website, May 2014 – read online
    • MedusPod, February 2015 – listen online
    • Asian Birds & Beasts, Insignia Series, August 2018 – buy a copy
  • “Behind the First Years”
    • COSMOS Online, 28 May 2013
    • Science Fiction Short Stories from Flame Tree Publishing, September 30, 2015 – buy a copy
    • StarShipSofa, September 1, 2015 – listen online
    • Seasons Unceasingbuy a copy