“The Man Who Wished Away Everyone.” In Heretic (September 2023) from tdotSpec. Available in ebook and paperback on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca.
I realized I did not want to talk. Not to Jancey, not to anyone at Sweet Fir, not even to Emily. I just wanted this all to… go away.
“The Mountains My Bones, the Rivers My Blood.” In Beneath Ceaseless Skies (October 2022). Read online.
“I have delivered two worlds to my goddess. I killed three gods and forced two more to surrender. Why would I need regrets, or more time?”
“Bride of the Blue Manor.” In Shattering the Glass Slipper (August 2022) from Zombies Need Brains. Buy as ebook or paperback: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, or via the Zombies Need Brains site.
Alone in this large, lonely manor with him, I thought of his previous wives. Their lives, their demises.
“Chasing the Sun.” In 4th and Starlight (June 2022) from Future Finalists Publishing. Buy as ebook or paperback: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca.
All she needed was to reach the sun. Then the light would never leave again and her brother would return.
“Fall from the Heavens.” In On Spec Magazine #118, Vol. 31, No. 4 (December 2021). Purchase the issue in digital or print.
He had the wings of a bat and the hands of a dead man.
“The Auger Process.” In Dark Matter Magazine Issue 006 (November 2021). Purchase the issue here.
Like bottle gourds, fetuses occasionally turn toxic. Hence why I’m here, trying to erase myself.
“Dress of Ash.” In Seasons Between Us (August, 2021) from Laksa Media. Information on the anthology here (including an excerpt). Available on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca.
As Kaya’s form disappeared into the trees, all I could think about was that girl in the dress of ash. Unlike her, no prince came for Kaya.
“Lace, Comb, Apple.” In The Dark (August 2021). Read online or listen to the podcast here. Translated into Spanish by Voces de lo insólito, available on Patreon.
There was nothing here but swirling grey fog, and me. The laces around my waist were cinched so tight I could hardly breathe. A comb threaded through my hair, and in my hands I held an apple.
“My Mirror, My Opposite.” In Beneath Ceaseless Skies (June 2021). Read online.
Let’s clear up one thing: that night, the storm didn’t hurl me into the sea.
“How I Became MegaPunch, Or, Why I Stayed with Dylan.” In Fantasy Magazine (April 2021). Read online.
Me? I’m MegaPunch. Just one of your many overworked, panda-eyed superheroes. Academia doesn’t pay what it used to, and I’m in dire need of cash.
“The First Day of School.” In Page & Spine (January 2021). Read online.
Tim burns his textbooks at 5:36 p.m. on a cloudy late-April Thursday, fifty-seven minutes after his final exam. The forty-nine tomes emit a pleasantly foul odour.
“Mangy White Dog.” In Asimov’s Science Fiction (September/October 2020 issue). Subscribe in print or digital. Listen to the podcast.
For years the mangy dog was simply there. Like the baozi restaurant, the phlegm-covered pavement, the old lady and her stupid scarf. Except one day the old lady stopped coming, and maybe that shifted the bones of the universe.
“The Last Leviathan.” In Outsiders (September 2020) from tdotSpec. Buy as an ebook or paperback on Amazon.com or Amazon.ca.
The stars are eternal and dying. It takes a long time for them to die when they turn red, if they ever do.
“Little Inn on the Jianghu.” In The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (September/October 2019 issue). Buy the issue in print or digital.
It starts in an inn. It always starts in an inn, or winds up there somehow.
“Glass Gardens.” In Cast of Wonders (August 2019). Read or listen online here.
The youngest marries the prince. The youngest saves the kingdom. The youngest is immortalized in song. I told myself I didn’t mind missing those things. I was happy being the wicked one.
“Buried Phoenix. And Leaves.” In Little Blue Marble (July 2019). Read it here.
Save the world. Burn the world. Cut out the rot from the world with my love’s ashes as the dagger. All the same thing.
“Skyscrapers in the Sand.” In Clarkesworld (April 2019). Read it online or listen to the podcast.
“I wish I were Petra, I wish I were Vegas . . .”
“The Lady of Butterflies.” In The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (November/December 2018 issue). Buy the issue in print or digital.
“Everything about it has changed: its senses, its diet, its body. And yet… people say the butterfly still dreams of being a caterpillar.”
“The Palace of the Silver Dragon.” In Strange Horizons (October 2018). Read online or listen to the podcast. Translated into Spanish in El Nombre del Mundo es Cuento. Read here.
“I was born beneath Farer’s Axe, under inauspicious stars. My mother left me and my father hated me. I dreamed no dreams, loved no one, lost nothing but what I destroyed with my own hands.”
“A Place Without Seasons.” In Factor Four #3 (October 2018). Read online, or buy the issue in paperback and Kindle.
In the gloom of the freezer, Shiro dreams of snow.
“Subtle Ways Each Time.” In Escape Pod #646 (September 2018). Reprinted in Best Vegan Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2018 and The Trouble with Time Travel.
A man loses a woman. As if she were car keys, an umbrella, a scraggly doll in the arms of a child.
“The Mooncakes of My Childhood.” In PodCastle #540 (September 2018). Read or listen online here.
The mooncakes of my childhood were hard as rocks. I killed a man with them, in the fall of ‘68.
“Glass Heart Giant.” In Sanctuary (September 2018) from tdotSpec. Buy the book: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca. Get the ebook for free here.
We lived in the glass heart of a giant. For many sleeptimes now, we’ve tried to escape.
“The Girl with the Frozen Heart.” In Awakenings (August 2018) from The Book Smugglers. Read online here.
He tried to pluck the arrowhead from her chest and close the wound, but her skin shrivelled and blackened at his touch. He was the god of winter, destined to take life and not to give it back.
“Final Flight of the PhoenixWing.” In The Razor’s Edge (June 2018) from Zombies Need Brains. Buy the book: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, from the publisher, or as an ebook (Kobo, Kindle, Nook).
She had done everything, said all she needed to say, outlived every other pilot of her generation. Keito was all that remained for her: his message, his homecoming, and the promise that had spanned seven years of his life and fifty-eight years of hers.