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.) Nominated to the  Tangent Recommended Reading List for 2020.

• "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 Feathers, in Moonlight," Galaxy's Edge #44, May 1, 2020. Nominated to the  Tangent Recommended Reading List for 2020.

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

• "Mending Broken Toys," The Arcanist, June 11,2020.

• "We Are All of Us," NewMyths #51, June 15, 2020.

• ""Pterrors of the Caribbean," DreamForge: Magazine of Science and Fantasy Fiction, #6, July 15, 2020. (Part 2 of 2.)

• "A Tool Shaped to Any Task," Flame Tree Newsletter #23, August 4, 2020.

• "The Big Steep: A Soft-Boiled Mystery," Bodies in the Library, Flame Tree Publications, September 22, 2020.

• “Life and the Places Between,” in Heavy Metal Jupiters and Other Places. Ed. Heather Clitheroe and Jessie L. Christiansen. (Produced for the Exoplanet Demographics Conference, 2020, in affiliation with NASA, Caltech, ipac, and NExScI.)

• "Two in One," Tales to Terrify #459, November 13, 2020.

• "To Our Own Ghosts," Cabinet of Curiosities, November 18, 2020.

• "Non tutti i gatti di notte sono neri," in Short Èdition, December 3, 2020; translation into Italian of "When No Cats are Gray."

• "In the Leaves' Embrace," DreamForge: Magazine of Science and Fantasy Fiction, #7, December 7, 2020.

• "Wings at Midnight, Wings at Dawn," in Twilight Worlds: Best of NewMyths II, ed. by Scott T. Barnes. (reprint)

2021

• "A Shot in the Dark," Analog Vol. CXXXXI No. 1 & 2, January/February 2021.

• "Etched in Light," Speculative North #4, February 17, 2021.

• "Malum in Se," Abyss & Apex #78, April 2021.