Short Stories

  • Eternal Recurrence

    Published in Diabolical Plots. Recommended by Reactor Magazine ("Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: July 2024)

    A science fiction love story. About love, loss, and the emptiness of technological solutions to grief. Featuring AI, Nietzsche, and stroads.

  • The Art the Owls Can't Swallow

    Published in Apex Magazine.

    A weird story about sculptures made from the bones and bits found in owl pellets, a failing marriage, and claiming one’s place through art and action.

  • Nine Theories of Time

    Published in Apex Magazine. 2023 Eugie Award Finalist.

    A science fiction story about grief, loss, and how we understand and move through time.

  • Life on Earth

    Published in Phano Magazine.

    A science-fiction story about illness, love, and the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

  • Image of Arthur Dove's Sunrise, III

    Heliopause

    Published in The Ekphrastic Review.

    Four interconnected literary/speculative flash fictions inspired by Arthur Dove’s painting, Sunrise, III. Katherine Dreier prepares to deliver a lecture on art while meditating on pain; mountain lions surround a San Jose ranch; a musician searches for melody, and a distant future human contemplates the end of the solar system.

  • The Physical Impossibility of Living

    Published in trampset.

    A literary short story about a teen’s communion with a formaldehyde-preserved shark in the NYC Met. About memory and living life on your own terms.

  • Grail, 2004

    Published in Bleating Things.

    A literary short story about grief, loss, and changing lives. Told through a gallery description and footnotes.

  • a train in fog

    At the End of Everything

    Published in Not One of Us.

    A short story about a soul who has taken up the mantle of Charon, replaced his boat with a train, and now finds himself at the end of the universe with no souls left to ferry.

  • Embodied

    Published in House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature, Volume 4.

    A science fiction story about AI, identity, claiming your place in the world, and the love of parents.

  • The Painted Boy

    Published in Weird Horror Magazine Issue 7

    A horror story about a feral child kidnapped by an artist and forced to create paintings that make the artist famous. Told through numerous gallery plaque descriptions.

  • The Song, Its Singers, and The End of the World

    Published in Fusion Fragment. A Locus Magazine recommended story.

    A science fiction story about the end of the world (via sound wave), change, friendship, transformation, and existential joy.

  • Beginnings

    Published in Tales from Fiddler’s Green 2: Midnight Flowers.

    An experimental poetic story about love, fairy tales, and beginnings.

  • The Ferryman's Fee

    Published in Epic Echoes.

    A fantasy/weird west story about an undead outlaw, a revolutionary, and a former spy who find themselves dead and without a coin with which to pay Charon. Join them as they try to steal their way across the River Styx.

  • Stigmata Pentaptych

    Published in Does it Have Pockets

    A literary fiction story told through 5 art plaque descriptions that follow an artist’s life, fears, loves, and journey. About queerness, discovery, truths we keep hidden, and the way art can excavate it all.

  • Doughnuts, Goosebumps, and Me

    Published in Cosmorama.

    A short science fiction love story about loving in present tense, losing someone, and a love that stretches galaxies.

  • The Witches of Yggdrasil

    Published in Tumbled Tales.

    A science fantasy genre-bender about a group of witches living off the side of a post-apocalyptic skyscraper, trying to contact the Voyager satellite and return its spell to Earth.

  • Your Fungal Heart

    Published in Dark Recesses

    A dark fantasy story about being misunderstood, fungi, and revenge.

  • The Light in the Attic, The Bones in the Earth

    Published in The Art of Being Human, a FableCroft anthology.

    A fantasy story about a young, queer boy, in a world where homes are grown from the bones of your loved one.

  • Tomorrow's Agony

    Published in The Vanishing Point.

    A science fiction story about generational debt, pain, and what we owe to the ones we love.

  • A black and white image of a storm above trees. Dark black clouds cover the top 1/3 of the image. Lightning streaks through the sky in the middle third of the image. Silhouettes of trees take up the bottom third.

    We Escape into the Recesses

    Published in Crow and Cross Keys.

    A slipstream story about running away from home, becoming feral, and how families heal (or don’t) from loss.

  • Husk

    Published in Dark Void Magazine.

    A science fiction horror story about memories, digestion, and who we are without our past.

  • Winter's Song

    Published in Fusion Fragment.

    A science fiction/fantasy story about magic, generational knowledge, and deep space travel.

  • Calling Me Home

    Published in Metaphorosis.

    A science fiction story about quantum entanglement, labor, parenthood and asteroid mining.

  • Bootstraps

    Published in Write Ahead/The Future Looms.

    A science fiction story about nanobots, a perma-flooded city, our bodies under capitalism, and guilt.

  • The Earth is Nothing More than a Marble

    Published in Short Editions. Jury Finalist.

    A fairy tale about a feral princess locked in a tower, how she survives, and what it means to be free.

Flash Fictions and Prose Poems: The Weird(er) Stuff

  • Within the Dead Whale

    Published in Flash Fiction Online.

    A weird horror flash fiction about a dead whale that washes ashore, the children of a small beach town's obsession with it, and a father's struggle to understand his children enough to love them.

  • The Wanting, 2011-2023

    Published in Does it Have Pockets.

    A literary flash fiction story, told in the form of a gallery description. A piece of geosculpture in the desert of the American Southwest connects one man 10 years apart, reflecting on loss, family, and becoming.

  • Iconostasis

    Published in manywor(l)ds.

    A prose poem/flash fiction about religion, art, and finding meaning in the complex, messy lived-in world.

  • Olga, the Saint of Longing

    Published in Paranoid Tree.

    A flash fiction about loving with precision and specificity through every stage of a life.

  • a gamecube

    The Geometry of Darkness

    Published in Y2K Quarterly.

    A prose poem ode to the GameCube loading screen and tweenage misery,

  • How to make love to a saguaro cactus

    Pushcart Prize nominee. Rhysling Award nominee. Published in Cream Scene Carnival, Wild West issue.

    A voicey poem about love, self-abnegation, the sweat-filled embrace of the desert, and how to love both yourself and the world, even when they hurt you.

  • To Misses Delilah, Who Killed My Sister

    Published in trampset.

    A literary flash fiction about small towns, growing up, and losing the people who mean the most to you.

  • Andromeda Among Asphodels, 2005

    Pushcart prize nominee. Best Small Fictions nominee. Published in The Disappointed Housewife.

    A literary flash fiction story about art and obsession told through the form of a galley description.

  • The Sky Below, the Ocean Above, 2014

    Published in manywor(l)ds

    A literary story/prose poem about art, where we find inspiration, and how to say no to death.

  • The Mouth, 2009

    Published in The Marrow.

    A literary/horror flash fiction about art, losing yourself, and the sculpture that resides at the base of all our spines.

  • His Heart, Forever Frozen, 2016

    A literary body horror story told in the form of a gallery description about nascent relationships, and what we give to and take from others.

    Published in body fluids, issue 03 - suspended.

  • The Moon, the River, the Lyre

    A retelling of the Cassiopeia and Andromeda myth about love, loss, motherhood, and the callousness of kings.

  • You Were Not Made for This

    Published in Apparition Literary Magazine. Winner of the April 2022 Flash Fiction Challenge.

    A science fiction story about a mining robot, sharing grief, and being more than the sum of your parts. An ekphratic story based on an image by artist Toshiko Okanoue.

  • The Women at the Edge of the Universe

    Published in Etherea Magazine.

    A science fantasy story about a young girl finishing her father’s mission to find the edge of the universe, and how to find your own purpose.

  • If Suddenly You Forget Me, Do Not Look for Me

    Published in MetaStellar. Included in Best of MetaStellar Year One.

    A science fiction flash fiction piece about selling experiences, failed MMA careers, and death.

  • God is a Woman, and My Mother, She's a Witch

    Published in The Cackling Kettle issue 3.

    A flash fiction about mourning, mothers, witchcraft, and the magic we leave behind.

  • Black Widow

    Published in Corvid Queen.

    A fairy tale about mourning, small town politics, gender, and arachnids.

Forthcoming Stories

  • Un-Pragmagic: A Tyler Moore Retrospective

    A fantasy story about a magical artist told through gallery descriptions that are slowly being taken over by the voice of the posthumous artist. It’s about money and power corrupting our artistic visions, revenge, and a dash of arson.

    Forthcoming in Lightspeed.

  • Life on Earth

    A science-fiction story about illness and the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

    Forthcoming in Phano Magazine.

  • The Wanting, 2011-2023

    A literary short story in the form of a gallery description. A geo-sculpture in the heart of the desert ignites thoughts of grief, change, and longing in its viewers.

    Forthcoming in Does it Have Pockets.

  • The Observer Effect

    A sci-fi retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice. A generation ship’s bard and quantum AI fall in love. When Eurydice goes missing after investigating a quantum deadzone, Orpheus must travel through the void of space to rescue his love.

    Forthcoming in The Daily Tomorrow.

  • In the Dream, He is Skinless and Beautiful

    Forthcoming from Weird Horror.

    A weird, body-horror short story about skin, loss, and the dripping viscera of our inside thoughts.

  • Razor Burn

    A science fiction novelette. Two astronauts and a physicist on a solar particle collider around the sun must work together to unravel an atomic mystery of a blue-shifting foot, disappearing electrons, and a mole that won’t vanish.

    Forthcoming in Farthest Star Publishing