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"A Slightly Different Sunrise from Mercury, Nevada"
in STRANGE HORIZONS (November 18, 2024)
Out now in STRANGE HORIZONS!
Annie raised her arms as one of the Area 5 portal attendants ran a wand over her suit to scan for weapons. The tourists of the day marveled at the shimmering wall in the middle of the desert, surrounded by food vendors, souvenir stands, and stunted sagebrush.
"Covenants, Conditions, & Restrictions"
in FUSION FRAGMENT (issue #22, August 2024)
Out now in FUSION FRAGMENT: the world may be on fire, but Homeowners Association Newsletters can not be stopped...
As always, a new year means new color palettes—out with the old, and in with the YasssTM! Residents must remove last year’s holiday decorations and purchase Goluxx Yasss lifestyle items in the current palette of “Snowmelt” by January 7th. (Yes, even you, Cordelia.)
"RoxysMakeupMoxy Gets Real"
in FLASHPOINT SF (September 20, 2024)
My apocalyptic TikTok makeup tutorial is out now at Flashpoint SF !
Friends and frenemies, drag queens and drama queens, this will probably be my last tutorial. I’ll be trading the cold glow of my ring light for the warm glow of candlelight soon, with all of you. So, I’ll just rip off the wax strip and get to it.
I don’t have much to offer at the end of the world. But not much doesn’t mean nothing...
"The Piano Player Has Eight Arms"
in RECKONING (issue #9, 2025 TBA)
Life is NOT better down where it's wetter, under the sea. At least, not for the staff of Brine & Dine, the second most exclusive restaurant under the ocean. Coming soon to RECKONING, the magazine for creative writing on environmental justice...
The scent of fish lingers in the air for a moment. Nobody cares what the cocktails taste like here, only how many critically threatened or otherwise taboo ingredients we can squeeze into each one.
"A Body Is Horror"
in CHTHONIC MATTER QUARTERLY (Winter 2025)
Coming to CHTHONIC MATTER QUARTERLY in Winter 2025, my cosmic horror about chronic illness...
The adults had dismissed them as “growing pains,” but my childhood torments hadn’t gone away once I stopped growing taller. They were my constant companions, as inescapable as the fading timber town I grew up in, with its boarded windows and accumulation of drifters who had found the end of their lines.
"Anachronisms"
in RATTUS FUTURA (Manawaker Studio, May 2024)
My rat god cosmic horror "Anachronisms" appears in this new collection of short stories and poems depicting the various futures of humanity’s ever-present stowaway. There are also stories about future ferrets, prairie dogs, capybaras, & more!
I thought about how much respect this rat must command among other rats, about how ancient it must be to have reached such a size. To take a photo seemed disrespectful...
"The Beach House with Its Back to the Sea"
in THE OFF-SEASON (Dark Matter INK, October 2024)
Thrilled to announce that this story, set in my fictionalized version of Shelter Cove, will be in the Coastal New Weird anthology THE OFF-SEASON, edited by Marissa van Uden! Release date is October 29, 2024, available for pre-order!
A film crew, a dramatic re-enactment, an isolated, rugged beach village in the off-season...What could go wrong?
"Zero Zero"
in KING LUDD'S RAG (Malarkey Books, Spring 2024)
My longer story "Zero Zero," set on New Year's Eve 1999, is in the "lofi literature" two-story zine KING LUDD'S RAG, guest edited by Suzy Eynon!
“Do you feel that?” asked Azalea, the hippie housemate. Every punk rock house has a hippie housemate, and nobody knows why.
“Feel what?” Lee mumbled, pulling plates from the tower in the sink to get to the faucet.
“The world.” Azalea flicked her long skirt back and forth for the puppy to bite at. “Like it’s teetering on the edge of something...”
"Walls Become Webs"
in TREMBLING WITH FEAR (March 3, 2024 issue)
My first attempt at writing a drabble (a wee story of exactly 100 words) has been published in Horror Tree’s weekly column Trembling With Fear. It’s a tiny ode to a gigantic spider that lives in my kitchen…
... It was the unkindest season, and her sisters had already curled into themselves in a futile attempt to implode away from the cold. But I kept the heat on, and she tiptoed out each morning to greet me...
CLICK here to read the whole story (it's the 2nd short)
"Ponderous Gray"
in CURSED MORSELS Zine Issue No. 1, 2023
My second microfiction publication this year (see below for the first)! My weird horror tale is one of two stories in the first issue of a new mini-zine from Cursed Morsels Press! The issue's theme is "Reader Beware - The Landlord Lair!" This zine is available as part of a five zine bundle at the link below (just 99 cents for pdf version, or $6 for physical)!
"How to Talk to Your Luvvbot-3000 About WWIV"
in STRANGE MACHINES (Apex Publications, 2023)
Thrilled to announce I have a story in this microfiction anthology from Apex Publications, with some incredibly talented sci-fi authors! This anthology is a Kickstarter exclusive, so you have until November 9, 2023 to get it as a $6 add-on for backing The Map of Lost Places, a travel horror anthology edited by Sheree Renée Thomas (NYT besteller + F&SF chief editor) and Lesley Conner (Apex Magazine chief editor)!
"Anachronisms"
in COSMIC HORROR MONTHLY (March 2023, issue #33)
...I knew after years of living together there was no use in trying to wake Owen—I could only guide him through the house. Sometimes I envied him, as a light sleeper, but more often I was fascinated by our differences. His problem was that his body wouldn’t sleep—a hazard of productivity implants—and mine was that my mind wouldn’t. Several nights a week I would find myself awake, wandering through strangely vivid landscapes that don’t exist...
"Hallmark Holiday Movies Rejected for Being Too California"
in POINTS IN CASE (December 2021)
...This is where she bumps into rakishly handsome high school sweetheart Rattlesnake, whose cannabis farm has fallen on hard times due to legalization driving prices down. When Hayley realizes she still has feelings for him, she bids $200,000 over the asking price on his land, then convinces him to help her turn it into a much more lucrative Extra-Tall Christmas Tree Farm...
"Recipe for My Holiday Aspic of Despair"
in THE HAVEN (December 2021)
9. Try to forget that you spent about 7 hours of your precious alone time* preparing this (*the only time you seem to have anymore after pushing everyone out of your life like a snowplow). Check on your aspic in another 6 months...
"A Visit from Santifa Claus"
in ROBOT BUTT (December 2021)
A very-2020 parody of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” AKA “The Night Before Christmas,” in the POV of someone who watches way too many hysterical right-wing pundits.
...In the middle of a nightmare that I was held prisoner in a FEMA death camp by Rachel Maddow in thigh-high boots, I was startled awake by what could only be described as a clatter...
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