Published Fiction

You can find more than 30 of my published science fiction stories in The Butterfly Disjunct, published November 4, 2024 from Interstellar Flight Press. Available in print and ebook from all major retailers.

Forthcoming

  • “Record of Lumber Used in the Great Temple’s Main Hall” – The Archive

2024

  • “An Evening of Theatre at Floating World Station”
    • The Butterfly Disjunct: And Other Stories (Interstellar Flight Press), November, 2024 – buy a copy
  • “Festival of Lights”
    • The Butterfly Disjunct: And Other Stories (Interstellar Flight Press), November, 2024 – buy a copy
  • “Ghosts of Maricourt Crater”
    • The Butterfly Disjunct: And Other Stories (Interstellar Flight Press), November, 2024 – buy a copy
  • “The List-Making Habits of Heartbroken Ships”
    • Neurodiversiverse (Thinking Ink Books), August, 2024 – buy a copy
  • “White Lies Cast Dark Shadows”
    • Carpe Noctem (Tyche Books), August, 2024 – buy a copy
  • “Flowers for an Infinite Grave”
  • “Companion Animals in Mahō Shōjo Kira Kira Sunlight”
  • “The Copenhagen Exhibitions”

2023

  • “Magic Dad’s Cookie Bites”
  • “Six Ways to Get Past the Shadow Shogun’s Goons, and One Thing to Do When You Get There”
  • “Four Scenes from Proxima b”

2022

  • “The Spread of Space and Endless Devastation”
  • “Veracity’s Find”
    • Wizards in Space 8, November 2022 – buy a copy
  • “The Labyrinth’s Daughter”
  • “What Not to Do When You’re Polymorphed and Stuck in a Time Loop”
  • “The Nature of Stones”
    • Prismatic Dreams, All Worlds Wayfarer, June 2022 – buy a copy
  • “The Calligrapher’s Granddaughter”
  • “A Difference of Opinion”
    • Kaleidotrope, April 2022 – read online
    • Learning to Be Human from Flame Tree Publishing, February 2024 – buy a copy

2021

  • “A Lay of Light and Anger”
  • “How to Escape from the Marches”
    • Infinite Worlds #9, September 2021 – buy a copy
    • The Initialization of Briar Rose, September 2023 – buy a copy
  • “No Blood of My Heart, No Breath of My Lungs, But Love”
  • “Five Books from the Alnif Crater Travelling Library”
  • “The Future, One Summer Behind”
  • “Letters Submitted to the Department of Chronology in Place of a Thesis”
    • Black Eyed Peas on New Year’s Day, April, 2021 – buy a copy

2020

  • “How They Name the Ships”
  • “Maricourt’s Waters, Quiet and Deep”
    • No Police = Know Future, December 9, 2020 – buy a copy
    • Fight the Future, forthcoming
  • “Five Things I Hate about Phobos”
  • “Scenes from the End of a World”
    • All Worlds Wayfarer, June 20, 2020
  • “At the Edge of a Human Path”
    • 87 Bedford Historical Anthology, June 15, 2020 – read online
  • “Against the Dying of the Light”
  • “My Decohering Heart”
    • Quantum Shorts Competition, February 2020

2019

  • “Music, Love, and Other Things the Cat has Peed on”
    • Punk Rock Future, October 2019 – buy a copy
    • Solstitia (forthcoming)
  • “Three Tales the River Told”
  • “The Colours of Europa, the Colours of Home”
  • “How to Break Causality and Write the Perfect Time Travel Story”
    • Translunar Travellers’ Lounge, August 15, 2019 – read online or buy a copy
    • ChoroChronos Archives, JayHenge Publishing, 2021
  • “Communications from the Honeymoon Suite”
    • Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove from Atthis Arts, May 7, 2019 – buy a copy

2018

  • “Memorial Park”
  • “Words I’ve Redefined Since Your Dinosaurs Invaded My Lunar Lair”
    • Flash Fiction Online, October 1, 2018 – read online
  • “Failsafes”
  • “The City, Like Time”
    • Kasma SF, April 2018

2017

  • “Mercy at Eltshan-Time”
    • Intergalactic Medicine Show, December 2017 – read online
    • Kasma SF, May 2020
    • Strange Wars, April 2022 – buy a copy
  • “Something on Your Mind,” (with Gareth D Jones, Anatoly Belilovsky, Robert Dawson, Kate Heartfield, Holly Heisey, CL Holland, Laurie Tom, and Deborah Walker)
  • “Blood-Stained Letters Found in a Roadside Shrine on the Outskirts of Kyoto”
  • “Cut-Rate Couples Weekend at the Witch House Inne and Tavern (9 reviews)”
  • “Kuriko”
    • Tales of the Sunrise Lands, July 2017 – buy a copy
    • Summer of SFF Volume 3 (forthcoming)
  • Doge Coefficient
  • What She Left Behind
  • “The Monsters Your Mother Still Asks About”
    • Great Jones Street, May 2017
    • Worlds of Possibility, February 2023 – subscribe to read
  • “The Thing About Heisenball”
    • Daily Science Fiction, April 4, 2017
    • Flash Fiction Online, December, 2019 – read online
    • Manawaker Podcast (audio), April, 2023 – listen online
  • “Sharp as Sunrise”
    • Princess Fairy Tale Anthology, Fantasia Divinity, April 2017
  • “The Abbot’s Garden”
    • Bards & Sages publishing, March 24, 2017 – buy a copy
  • How I Became Coruscating Queen of All the Realms, Pierced the Obsidian Night, Destroyed a Legendary Sword, and Saved My Heart’s True Love,” (with Matt Dovey as Baker and Dovey)

2016

  • “Proceedings from the First and Only Sixteenth Annual One-Woman Symposium on Time Manipulation”
  • “Fallinghome: A Reevaluation”
  • “The Plumes of Enceladus”
  • “Five Recipes You Can’t Live Without”
  • “The View from Driftwise Spindle”
    • Intergalactic Medicine Show, July 9, 2016 – read online
  • “Images Across a Shattered Sea”
    • Writers of the Future, volume 32, May 4 2016
    • Sub-Q Magazine, July 11, 2016 (interactive version)
    • The Overcast, December 27, 2016 – listen online
    • Kasma SF, November 1 2016
    • Best Vegan SFF of 2016, April 22, 2017 – buy a copy
    • Great Jones Street, April 2017
    • Wizards in Space, Spring 2020
  • “Just Another Night at the Abandoned Draft Bar and Grill”
    • Galaxy’s Edge, May 2016

2015

  • “Excerpt from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th Edition Regarding the Departed”
  • “Elements of a Successful Exit Broadcast”
    • Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, November 2015
  • “Fugue in a Minor Key”
    • Galaxy’s Edge, November 1 2015
    • Rabbit Hole, Vol 4, October 2021 – Buy a copy
  • “Love and Relativity”
  • “Concerning Your Recent Creation of Sentient Horse-things on the Next Planet Over”
    • Flash Fiction Online, August 1, 2015 – read online
    • Mad Scientist Journal, Winter 2018 – buy a copy
    • Toasted Cake (audio version), February 24, 2019 – listen online
    • Androids and Dragons, forthcoming
  • “Masks”
    • SFComet, March 2015 edition
    • Dark Matter Magazine Issue 2, March 2021 – read online
  • “Configuring Your Quantum Disambiguator”
  • “Some Salient Details About Your Former Lives”
    • Plasma Frequency, January/February 2015
  • “Nikumaroro, July 1937”
    • Fine Linen Magazine, January 2015

2014

  • “Little More than Shadows”
    • Daily Science Fiction, November 18, 2014
  • “The Mother of Sands”
    • Tales of Mystery, Suspense & Terror, October 31 2014
    • Beyond Steampunk, Old Sins Publishing, April 2018 – buy a copy
    • Spirits and Ghouls Short Stories, September 26, 2023, – buy a copy
    • Creepy Podcast January 18, 2023 – listen online
  • “The Robotic Poet reads Basho”
    • Beyond Borderlands, September 23 2014
    • Big Echo, January 2019 – read online
  • “They Come in Waves”
    • Freeze Frame Fiction, July 1 2014 – read online
    • Horror for the Throne, 2020
  • “Subtle Vibrato”
    • SpeckLit, May 11 2014
    • The Martian, 2021
  • “Ascension”
    • Plasma Frequency, April/May 2014
  • “Homecoming”
    • SpeckLit, April 7 2014
  • “Oubliette”
    • Flash Fiction Online, April 1, 2014 – read online
    • QuickFic 2, Digital fiction Publishing, 2016
  • “Butterflies”
    • Spark: A Creative Anthology, January 1, 2014
    • Strange Constellations (as “The Butterfly Disjunct”), August 12, 2016
    • The Overcast, October 2018 – listen online
    • Sunshine Superhighway, JayHenge Publishing, 2020 – buy a copy
  • “Selections from the Aarne-Thompson Index for After the End of Things”
    • The Next Review, #3, January 13, 2014
    • Sockdolager, March 2015 – read online

2013

  • “Raising Words”
    • Penumbra eZine, July 2013
    • My website, May 2014 – read online
    • MedusPod, February 2015 – listen online
    • Asian Birds & Beasts, Insignia Series, August 2018 – buy a copy
  • “Behind the First Years”
    • COSMOS Online, 28 May 2013
    • Science Fiction Short Stories from Flame Tree Publishing, September 30, 2015 – buy a copy
    • StarShipSofa, September 1, 2015 – listen online
    • Seasons Unceasing – buy a copy

Please consider purchasing a copy of the magazines listed above, or subscribe to the magazine if you’re able. I heartily recommend the SFF magazine subscription tool maintained by Jeff Reynolds, which lists ways you can support science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazines.

I also have a list of Published Fiction in Other Languages.