Short Fiction

2020

“An Elegy for Landings,” forthcoming in Truancy.

2019

“Gert of the Hundred,” in Beneath Ceaseless Skies.
Above her head the cobwebs shivered, but there was no other response; not from the spiders or the birds, the mice or the wind, not from the trees in the forest or what lay in the darkness within.

“The Sunrise Manor Routine,” in The Threepenny Review.
Magic, he always said, is a science of energy. Not sleight of hand, not illusion or misdirection.

“A Is for …,” in F Is for Fairy.
Why did she have to have a purpose? Even if she was a thirteenth fairy who resembled a ripe, plump apple, wasn’t it enough to simply care for the world around her?

2012–2018

• “All That I Left Behind (We Are),” in The Fabulist.
• “A Harvest Fit for Monsters,” in Nightscript IV.
  Honorable mention in The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 11.
• “Xavier,” in E Is for Evil.
• “From Court Visionaries of the Imperial Age,” in Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry.
• “Sabbaths,” in Syntax & Salt.
• “Properties of Obligate Pearls,” in issue 020 of New Haven Review.
  Podcast at Podcastle.
  
• “To Us May Grace Be Given,” in GigaNotoSaurus.
  Honorable mention in The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 10.
  
• “Females of the Species,” in D Is for Dinosaur.
• “Vestiges,” in Syntax & Salt.
• “Wolves,” in issue 6.02 of  Menacing Hedge.
  
• “Germinant,” reprinted in the Autumn 2016 issue of Mirror Dance.
  
• “We Are Sirens,” in Sirens.
  Podcast at Podcastle.
  Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
  Included in Tangent Online’s 2016 Recommended Reading List.
  
• “Rare Birds, 1959,” in C Is for Chimera.
• “Ada, Awake,” in Volume 2, Issue 1 of Strangelet.
  Reprinted in Dark Lane Anthology Vol. 5.
  Reprinted in Tales for the Camp Fire.
  
• “The Tale of King Edgar,” winner of On the Premises Contest #26.
• “Little Men with Knives,” in Crossed Genres.
  Podcast at Tales to Terrify.
• “Vendémiaire,” in B Is for Broken.
  Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
  Podcast at Far Fetched Fables.
• “Five Little Seeds,” in Issue 5 of Wyvern Lit.
• “Julie,” in Strange Tales V.
  Reprinted in Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 3.
  Honorable mention in The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 8.
  Reprinted in Visionarium.
  Podcast forthcoming at Tales to Terrify.
  
• “Littoral Drift,” in Issue 6 of Lackington’s.
• “This Is How You Lose Yourself,” winner of the 2015 OddContest.
  Reprinted in Dark Lane Anthology Vol. 2.
  Reprinted in Eridan 17.
• “Vacui Magia,” in Strange Horizons.
  Reprinted in Szortal.
  Reprinted in Catarsi (Ictineu Award winner).
  Reprinted in Spin.
• “The Queen of Lakes,” in Fae.
  Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
  Included in Tangent Online’s 2014 Recommended Reading List.
  Reprinted in Mosaics: A Collection of Independent Women Vol. 1.
• “Clotho,” in the June issue of Niteblade.
• “Marigolds,” in Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History.
  Longlisted for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. 
• “Salmacis,” in the Winter 2013 issue of Mirror Dance.
• “All Our Frames Are Dust,” in Metazen.
  Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
  
• “The Pursuit of the Whole Is Called Love,” in Interzone 247.
  Reprinted in the Summer 2016 issue of Mantid.
  
• “Alice, Her Katabasis,” in issue 7 of Corvus.
• “Baobabs,” in Catherine, refracted.
• “The 8:45 to Buffalo,” in Tastes Like Pennies.
• “Apostasy,” in Cutaway.
• “The Chimera Factor,” in The Molotov Cocktail.