Fiction

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.

Published in Nature: Futures

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 and on the Bullet Points blog

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

Were We To Waver, My Love

The lengths we go to for family.

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 collapse

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

Love’s Labors, Lost

I was lost after she broke down.

Published in Stupefying Stories

The Weight of Expectation

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

Published in Martian Magazine

Like Any Other

Once we raced the void.

Published on the
Apex Patreon

Sing Back the Stars

It was prophesied that the world’s end would be hearkened by starsong.

Published in Page & Spine

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

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 (in collaboration with Utopia SF)

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.

Published in Tree and Stone

The Dream Trainers

We built a world made of change.

Published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies