Fiction

2024

  • Beneath Ceaseless Skies issue #404 cover, showing a castle above a lake

    The Coffee of Torcat

    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.

2022

  • Flash Fiction Online October 2022 cover, with the magazine title in blue text and an image of a star map overlaying a silhouette of a house, with two stylized lions above it.

    Directions to the House of Unnumbered Stars

    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.

  • How to Find a Folded Bookstore

    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.

  • Different Kinds of Thorn

    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 February 2022 cover image, a tower on a pillar of earth

    A Lie in the Sand

    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.

  • A Partial Record of Enchanted Cheeses I’ve Fed My Wife

    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 Issue 8 cover image, featuring a green dragon and person looking up at it

    Guttation, Transformation

    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.

  • What Anger Breaks and Builds

    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 cover of The Reinvented Heart anthology, featuring two femme people looking at each other in a futuristic room full of plants

    Photosynthesis, Growth

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

    Preorders available at Amazon, B&N, Bookshop.org.

2020

  • Beneath Ceaseless Skies issue #303 cover, showing a fantastical treehouse city around a waterfall

    Fox Red, Life Red, Teeth Like Snow

    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.