Short Fiction & Poetry
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Short Fiction
"Imperfect Monsters" (2000 words). Upcoming in Into the Dark (All Worlds Wayfarer)
Upcoming!
"A Knot for the Hawk" (3000 words). Upcoming in Loki (Flame Tree Press), June 2025 (UK)/July 2025 (US)
Upcoming!
"To Catch A Name" (3900 words). Published in Morgana le Fay anthology (Flame Tree Press), March 31 2025 (UK)/April 15, 2025 (US).
I cobble him together, that imagined nighttime boy, out of hawthorn boughs and apple blossoms and the gentle, thumping rhythm of my own heartbeat.
Then I hide him in my garden.
"The Science of Transient Cartography" (2100 words). Published in The Daily Tomorrow, February 2025.
My pa likes to say, his curmudgeonly jaw working at the spoon he often inserts between his lips when he’s trying to suck the last vestiges of honey from the well-worn metal ornamentation, that when he was a boy, maps were static things, only changing when wars were fought and lost and won.
I usually like to remind him that we don’t have wars anymore.
Poetry
"Whittled and Burned" (16 lines). Upcoming in Trollbreath magazine.
Upcoming!
"Beauty's Captor" (34 lines). Upcoming in Star*Line.
Upcoming!
"Bait" (24 lines). Published in Black Cat Tales (Black Cat Publishing), June 13 2025.
They don't realize
they're the bait.
"To Be the Change" (43 lines). Published in Strange Horizons, March 10 2025.
My father’s least favorite prophecy
has been reviewed by five generations of scholars
and soundly dismissed by them all.
When the heir becomes a daughter …
"them // us" (46 lines). Published in Utopia Science Fiction, March 2025.
Note: Not available to read free online.
They
drop from the sky at moonrise
when silver beams twist around their silver capsule.
"Gretel" (111 lines). Published in Grimm Retold (Speculation Publications), September 24 2025.
2025 Rhysling Award nominee!
The next day, when she opens her oven to bake
another loaf of bread, Hansel pushes her in.
Flash Fiction
"Through Time and Calamity" (750 words). Upcoming in Starship Librarians (Tyche Publishing).
Upcoming!
"An Unexpected Wombat" (500 words). Upcoming in Worlds of Possibility.
Upcoming!
Microfiction
"A Collector of Lives" (100 words). Upcoming in A Coup of Owls: Summer 2025 issue.
Upcoming!
"Window to the Lost" (100 words). Published in Trembling with Fear (Horror Tree), February 9 2025.
Grey mist wreaths my eyes. I swat it away and angle my flashlight to illuminate the sharp glimmer that snagged my attention.
"after the apple" (100 words). Published in Holly & Broom (Iron Faerie Publishing), October 2024.
Apple blossoms flutter to the earth around her, and she spins, letting them settle on her dark hair like flakes of sugar, or cocoanut, or snow.
"You Must Not Dare to Free the Breeze" (100 words). Published in Holly & Broom (Iron Faerie Publishing), January 2025.
Wind billows from the organ’s pipes, a billowing maelstrom loosed from within the polished valves, and in seconds it rips through the cobweb-spun church.
"Physics and Fairy Dust" (100 words). Published in Holly & Broom (Iron Faerie Publishing), December 2024.
The train can’t make me human—no wicked sorcery could alter me so fundamentally—but it reminds me that humanity is something to be striven for.