Short Stories
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Life on Earth
Published in Phano Magazine.
A science-fiction story about illness, love, and the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
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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.
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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.
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Grail, 2004
Published in Bleating Things.
A literary short story about grief, loss, and changing lives. Told through a gallery description and footnotes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Beginnings
Published in Tales from Fiddler’s Green 2: Midnight Flowers.
An experimental poetic story about love, fairy tales, and beginnings.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Your Fungal Heart
Published in Dark Recesses
A dark fantasy story about being misunderstood, fungi, and revenge.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Husk
Published in Dark Void Magazine.
A science fiction horror story about memories, digestion, and who we are without our past.
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Winter's Song
Published in Fusion Fragment.
A science fiction/fantasy story about magic, generational knowledge, and deep space travel.
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Calling Me Home
Published in Metaphorosis.
A science fiction story about quantum entanglement, labor, parenthood and asteroid mining.
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Bootstraps
Published in Write Ahead/The Future Looms.
A science fiction story about nanobots, a perma-flooded city, our bodies under capitalism, and guilt.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Iconostasis
Published in manywor(l)ds.
A prose poem/flash fiction about religion, art, and finding meaning in the complex, messy lived-in world.
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Olga, the Saint of Longing
Published in Paranoid Tree.
A flash fiction about loving with precision and specificity through every stage of a life.
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The Geometry of Darkness
Published in Y2K Quarterly.
A prose poem ode to the GameCube loading screen and tweenage misery,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Moon, the River, the Lyre
A retelling of the Cassiopeia and Andromeda myth about love, loss, motherhood, and the callousness of kings.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Black Widow
Published in Corvid Queen.
A fairy tale about mourning, small town politics, gender, and arachnids.
Forthcoming Stories
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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.
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Life on Earth
A science-fiction story about illness and the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Forthcoming in Phano Magazine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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