Fiction & Poetry

AITA for Killing All the Humans?

Forthcoming in Asimov’s Science Fiction

Of Plagues and Possibility

Forthcoming in Worlds of IF

After

Published in Worlds of Possibility

Would the Sea Still Sing to Me

Published in New Myths

Each Bite a Cleansing

Published in Star*Line

Ars Poetica

Published in Haven Spec

Time Cannot Contain Me

Published in Star*Line

Among the Beginnings Scattered Across the Kitchen Floor

I have nowhere to put my beginnings.

Ends are easy; rinds of tragedy and misfortune stink up the cupboard, waiting to be sunk into soups. Crusty edges of heartbreak line the countertop, salty as dried tears. The fridge is filled with the fatty excesses of guilt.

Published in If There’s Anyone Left

And You And I

It all began with our daughter. I didn’t recognize her at first, just another little girl playing in one of those in-ground fountains, where children wound themselves in giggling spirals around the fluid pillars arising from the hot pavement, made bearable only by the water’s ephemeral presence.

Published in The Sunday Morning Transport

Ten Reasons You Should Get Lasik Before the Apocalypse

1. You can’t see what’s coming, but I can. Some foreshadowing might be appropriate here, a look into the future. Care to gaze with me into the crystal ball? (I don’t really have a crystal ball. I am coming to understand there are two interrelated versions of sight).

Published in Small Wonders

Choose Your Own Future: Fascism Series #8

It’s time to write your lesson plan. You’ve been putting it off because this is the week on race and racialization, and even though it’s not technically “critical race theory,” you know how the students will interpret it.

Published in Liminalities under a creative commons license, now available to read online in Radon.

Hello, This is Automatic Antigrief: What Problem Can I Solve For You Today?

Hi. Yes. Well, it’s not a problem, exactly. It’s just that I don’t even know why I do it sometimes.

Originally published in Nature: Futures, now available to read online for free in Radon.

Our World Between Their Lines

When the strangers arrived on our shores, we knew their magic was powerful. But we didn’t realize it could be so unintentionally wielded.

Published in Orion’s Belt

‘Til Death Do Us Part

“Give me one more year,” Jason begs you, flowers and chocolates in hand. “It’ll be different.”

Published in Martian Magazine

Sing the Phoenix to Flame

Once, Tena Na Tena had been certain when she sang. Injustice gathered within her, swirling tighter until it solidified into a beat, lyrics, melody. When it clicked into place, she let it out.

Published in Little Blue Marble

Love Planted in the Night Sky

Truthfully, it started off as a joke. One shared between Gretchen, Annie, TJ, and I around a mess table on the lunar base, drinking in celebration of Gretchen’s daughter’s college graduation. Drinking too heavily, in fact…

Published in Amazing Stories

Far From Home

We’re always ready for war.

Published in Daily Science Fiction, reprinted in the Shacklebound Books newsletter on the Bullet Points blog.

Love’s Labors, Lost

I was lost after she broke down.

Published in Stupefying Stories

Break, O Time

Break, O waves, on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Published in Medusa Tales

Up the River, Over Mountains, Across the Sea

Soon, too soon, dawn will come and with it the necessity of a choice.

Published in Wyngraf

Answers Beyond Garden and Sky

How shall we answer the princess’s question? A thousand butterflies launch in our chest as we hear it, taking flight at her curiosity, gently lifting.

Originally published in Tree and Stone (unfortunately defunct), and reprinted in Stupefying Stories.

Were We To Waver, My Love

“But were we to waver—” A sob stops her words. 

“I know.” 

Published in Martian Magazine

Onyx & Snow

There once were two women who worked at the Office. The only two women, both dressing carefully every morning to appear professional, but not off-putting; attractive, but not sexy; and competent, but not aggressive.

Published in Corvid Queen

Collapsing Worlds Hail the Broadest Futures

When Sandra collapsed, so did my world.

Published in Martian Magazine.

We Found Ourselves Beyond the Vanishing Wave

We meticulously planned the journey. Bolstering defenses and collecting supplies—hacked servers and siphoned-off energy, code that would be unbreakable without us.

Published in Daily Science Fiction

The Weight of Expectation

Sandra sighed, readying a version of herself for the party.

Published in Martian Magazine

Shades of Journeys, Past and to Come

They aren’t ghosts, exactly, the figures that appear on your journey to Proxima B.

Published in Stupefying Stories

Like Any Other

Once we raced the void.

Published on the
Apex Patreon

Old Friends, Across Galaxies and the Space Between

Andromeda could have gone to the Intergalactic Jamboree on New Year’s Eve but instead, thanks to M33, she had been waiting in line for hours.

Published in Stupefying Stories

Boughs of Holly

She hovered over the deep green leaves before deftly pricking her finger on a spiked edge. Turning it over, she found only emptiness where blood once welled.

Published in
Daily Science Fiction

Every Day the Music Died

They took away the music but left the feelings it evoked.

Published in Stupefying Stories

The Dream Trainers

We built a world made of change.

Published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies