Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • “9 Dystopias” (400 words) is a surreal science fiction story about the end of the world, an alien invasion, corruption, and escape. Originally published by Paranoid Tree Press, this story was a Best Microfiction 2023 winner!
  • “Shorthand” (2,532 words) is a drama-filled science fantasy story an ambitious library assistant who can’t afford library school but has a knack for hunting for bookpearls and decides to take matters into her own hands, one book at a time. Published by After the Storm Magazine in January 2026.
  • “San Cibernético” (3,329 words) is a dark science fiction story about a runaway orphan who discovers a cyborg on a worldship and turns it into a cult saint. First appeared in the anthology The Internet Is Where The Robots Live Now from Paper Dog Books in 2018. Reprinted by The Dread Machine (with a custom illustration!) in November 2020, and by Penumbric Press in 2024.
  • “Second-Hand” (1,000 words) is an uplifting science fiction story about an old woman who runs the second-hand clothing rental shop on a worldship and knows better than most how every resource matters – even children. Published by Shoreline of Infinity in 2022. (This story is set on the same ship as “San Cibernético”!)
  • “The Desire, Death, and Dance of the Planet Aysudalit” (2,394 words) is a found-footage science fiction story about first contact between the planet Aysudalit and humans – and how, in their search for potable water, they accidentally lobotomize it. Published in Archive of the Odd #3: Aibohphobia in 2023. (This story is set in the same universe as “San Cibernético“!)
  • “Shining Star” (999 words) is a dark science fiction story about an aristocrat’s daughter who learns the truth about what the scientists are really up to down in the worldship’s Deep Belowdecks. Published in Neon Dystopia in 2025. (This story is set on the same ship as “San Cibernético“!)

Horror & Paranormal

  • “Handlebar” (992 words) is a comedic horror story about moustaches that sneak up and turn people evil. Published by Dark Recesses Press in August 2022.
  • “The Meter’s Jammed, So I Left You Some Quarters” (2,408 words) is a ghost story about a meter maid who keeps finding a mysterious stack of quarters on a parking meter in Cape May, New Jersey. Published in Scrawl Place in 2024.
  • “Cavities” (200 words) is a dark fantasy story about the sacrifices one mage is willing to make to unlock unknown treasures. Published in OOZE: Little Bursts of Body Horror in February 2023.
  • “The Arcade” (512 words) is a comedic horror story that opens with the line, “There’s a pinball arcade in my vagina.” Published by Curiouser Magazine in December 2021.
  • “Mother’s Love” (2,775 words) is a surreal horror story about a young woman who, during one of her periods, has to figure out what to do when one of her uterine clots turns out to be a living squid. Published by The Dread Machine in November 2020.

oTHER fictionS

  • “The Clementine of Enlightenment“ (996 words) is a quasi-fantasy story about a hiker at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, who’s trying to take a break from relationship drama and regrets turning down an unexpected opportunity to achieve enlightenment. Published in Scrawl Place in 2023.
  • “Phoenix” (1,978 words) is a historical fiction story about a member of the all-female firefighting hotshot brigade in the early 1970s who falls in love. Published by After the Storm Magazine in March 2023.

Essays

Kickstarter Analyses

My Editing Projects

Poetry

Dark Matters — NewMyths.com (December 2021)

[fish me out of the water] — Three Line Poetry (May 2021)

everything will be okay — Quatrain.Fish (18 January 2021)

Find me — Quatrain.Fish (16 January 2021)

role reversal — Quatrain.Fish (14 January 2021)

[Show me pelicans flying gracefully] — Quatrain.Fish (9 December 2020)

[racing doors swing open]— Quatrain. Fish (5 December 2020)

when i found you — Octavos (3 December 2020)

[Your hip’s my favorite place] — Quatrain.Fish (1 December 2020)

Curveball — Quatrain.Fish (27 November 2020)

[Repetition makes it true] — Quatrain.Fish (1 November 2020)

You say you want me. Then— — Quatrain.Fish (30 October 2020)

[Tread too long on hopeful ground] — Quatrain.Fish (22 October 2020)

[Let’s burrow into our snailshell house] — Quatrain.Fish (18 October 2020)

Betrothed — Honeyguide Literary Magazine (15 October 2020)

[the truth of your words] — Quatrain.Fish (21 August 2020)

[when you launder hearts] — Quatrain.Fish (30 July 2020)

[I’ll bury my heart on the shore] — Quatrain.Fish (26 July 2020)

I believe — Quatrain.Fish (23 July 2020)

[Your hands fascinate me] — Quatrain.Fish (26 June 2020)

[how bright you shine] — Quatrain.Fish (22 June 2020). Reprinted in SFPA’s Dwarf Stars 2021.

Reflections in Space — published in Issue 41 of NewMyths.com (site undergoing re-design; December 2017)

One Star — Esopian Literary Magazine (defunct; October 2005)