Short fiction

Many of my older short works are available at CuriousFictions, often without fee, particularly for subscribers. Check it out!

2016

• "The Cenotaph," Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, #52, September, 2016.

2017

• "Demeter's Regard," Compelling Science Fiction, April 1, 2017.

• "Ave, Caesarion," novella reprinted in Altered Europa: An Exploration of Passed Possibilities, ed. Martin T. Ingham, Martinus Publishing, April 2017, via CreateSpace.

• "Candont," Grievous Angel, May 31, 2017.

• "The Graveyard of Ships," (novella) Silver Blade #34, May 31, 2017.

• "Sun and Moon," novella, The Fantasist #3, June 15, 2017.

• "Viridian." Remixt, Vol 2. Issue 1, July 8, 2017.

• "The Shoes," Nonbinary Review #14, The Tales of Hans Christian Anderson. Zoetic Press, August 30, 2017; full text and podcast, September 12, 2017. * Nominated for Best of the Net!

• "She Who is Red," Hydrophobia, a Houston Harvey Charity anthology, October 31, 2017. Available at https://www.books2read.com/hydrophobia and Amazon.com.

• "Honeyed Tongue," Curiosities #1, Winter 2017. Podcast February 12, 2018, at Gallery of Curiosities.

2018

• "Demeter's Regard," (reprint), in Event Horizon 2018: An anthology of science fiction and fantasy works by authors eligible for the 2018 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

• "Ghosts of All Our Pasts," (novella/novellete) Silver Blade #38, Spring 2018.

• "Maze in the Sea of Voices," Future Visions Vol. 1, June 14, 2018.

• "Conceit and Capability," Galaxy's Edge #33, July 2018.

• "Becoming the Morrigan," Factor Four #3, September 30, 2018. (Requires subscription to read.)

• "Mustering Out," Abyss & Apex #68, October 1, 2018.

• Demeter's Regard," (reprint), in Robots & Artificial Intelligence, Flame Tree Publishing, 2018.

• "Reflected in Mirrored Skies," in Compelling Science Fiction; Special Kickstarter Companion issue (Nov. 6, 2018.)

• "A Mother's Love," Flame Tree Fiction, December 1, 2018.

• "The Lonely Dark," Compelling Science Fiction #12, December 2018.

• "Wings at Midnight, Wings at Dawn," NewMyths.com, December 2018.

• "The Immortal O. Ryan," Red Sun #4, December 21, 2018.

  • "Leaving Red Footprints," Finalist, XR Alliance 2019 contest, not published.

2019

• "A Thousand Echoes in One Voice," Overcast #97, January 16, 2019.

• "The Intercessor," (novella) The Fantasist #9, January 27, 2019.

• "The Archmage's Invitation," Constellary Tales #2, February 14, 2019.

• "Last Week I was Esther," Pseudopod #635, February 15, 2019.

• "When the Silvershade Blooms," Liquid Imagination #40, February 27, 2019.

• "Forward, Into Violet Sunset," Factor Four #5, April 1, 2019. (Requires subscription to read.)

• "On the Sixth Day," Pulp Lit #23, Summer 2019. (Also at Amazon.)

  • "Luddite Bodies," Honorable Mention, Sapiens Plurum / Future of Life 2019 contest, Not published.

• "The Improbable Case of the Were-Hydra," Mad Scientist Journal, Summer 2019.

• "Sweet Tooth," The Arcanist, August 6, 2019.

• "The Experiment Meets Certain Doom," Mad Scientist Journal, Autumn 2019.

• "Leaving Red Footprints," Pulp Modern: Tech Noir, October 20, 2019.

• "The Ghost Teas of Sakurajima," Mithila Review: The Journal of International Science Fiction & Fantasy, #12, December 5, 2019. (purchase)

• "Carols on Callisto," Escape Pod, December 19, 2019.

2020

• "Night of a Thousand Eyes," StoryHack Action & Adventure #5, January 12, 2020.

• "Pterrors of the Caribbean," DreamForge: Magazine of Science and Fantasy Fiction, #5, March 12, 2020. (Part 1 of 2.)

• "Spun of Salt and Stone," NewMyths.com #50, March 15, 2020.

• "Papyrates," The Overcast #127, April 25, 2020.

• "The Djinn of Titan's Dunes," Cossmass Infinities #2, May 1, 2020.

• "In Blood, In Shadows, in Moonlight," Galaxy's Edge #44, May 1, 2020.

• "When No Cats are Gray," Short Èdition #2, May 28, 2020.

• "We Are All of Us," NewMyths #51, June 15, 2020. (coming soon!)