Worlds of Possibility, 1,300 words (June 2024)

Before I left Bellingham, my overprotective dad told me, "You're a woman traveling alone, you have to be careful." I knew that, but I did not know I'd have to be careful about picking up a hitchhiking supernatural being from the ocean.

Diabolical Plots, 1,710 words (November 2024)

Captain Ruby Tauda of the whale-ship Balentora strapped down a crate of medicine and hurried across the star-whale’s mouth. She and her crew had always used the mouth as a cargo bay, but this wasn’t their usual cargo. They weren’t thieves.

Heartlines Spec, 3,200 words (April 2024)

Medevia took slow, deep breaths as an eighth hexagon was tattooed onto her thigh. She had seven already healed, one for each of her professional deaths and resurrections, inked in shades of peacock blue and teal.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2,020 words (April 2024)

"I drank a cup of ordinary coffee once with the Archduke of Holal," Osa said to the girl. "I need to drink it again.”

Audio version available, read by Maxine L. Moore.

Flash Fiction Online, 1,000 words (October 2022)

The house of unnumbered stars will be there when you need it, the night cartographer waiting with her pens and silver inks. Do not be ashamed of wanting her to draw you a star map.

Tales & Feathers Magazine, 2,000 words (September 2022)

I run Blue Heron Books, although it folded in 1993.

When the real world stops supporting them, Seattle’s bookstores shift out of mundane reality and into a fold of space-time.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 4,950 words (June 2022)

She has offered a dangerous thing, but oh, it is a sweet one too. To lie with a dryad, queen of the wood, would be an experience unlike any other.

Audio version available, read by Folly Blaine.

Metaphorosis Magazine, 3,200 words (February 2022)

The trees at the edge of the beach lean away from the water. They could have been blown back by a powerful sea wind, but Haworth is certain the trees are simply trying to get as far from the beach as possible. She wants to lean back too.

Audio version available, read by Matt Gomez.

One of Tor.com’s Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for February 2022.

PodCastle, 1,100 words (May 2022)

Werewolf’s Eye: sheep’s milk, rennet, salt, black pepper, moonlight

Peppery, mushroomy taste. The woman running the deli told me this cheese was enchanted by a local cheesemaker who’s been enchanting cheese for generations. Not sure if she was joking; she said it very straight-faced. I picked this cheese because Guin’s always liked werewolf stories, and she needs cheering up right now.

Audio version available, read by Kelly Robson.

Factor Four Magazine, 580 words (February 2022)

Lex on my doorstep, her arms wrapped around a potted monstera deliciosa, smiling. The plant’s fenestrated leaves sway in the breeze, viridescent and bigger than dinner plates. My eyes must be nearly as big.

Strange Horizons, 3,500 words (March 2022)

The storm raged, and all night Suuana stalked the corners of her candle-bright cottage. With bare feet, she stamped shaking into the earth; each time she lifted a foot she pulled the grains of soil with her, loosening them.

Audio version available, read by Courtney Floyd.

The Reinvented Heart: Tales of Futuristic Relationships (May 2022)

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 2,300 words (May 2020)

Hungry wolves eat pieces of the world, and the most ambitious hunters go after pieces of the heavens. Hryggda has heard it told. Wolves have been hunting the sun since her autumn waning, but she has escaped, hidden herself in a den to sleep until spring like a bear. And now, it seems, the forest's hunters aim to eat the moon.

Audio version available, read by Michael J. DeLuca.

One of Tor.com’s Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for May 2020.