2023
Where the Wind Blows
Flash Point SF
I’m working at the grocery when the wind blows you into town. I stock the shelves there, arranging the oldest merchandise in front, cleaning up after shoppers who think twice about that bar of chocolate and stuff it between pasta boxes two aisles down. It suits me, this job; I like the orderliness of the rows of boxes and cans, the way I can shuffle things around to fill any gaps. The way that everything has a place.
And then you land in the parking lot, bruised and disheveled.
Atticat
Spirits & Ghouls: Short Stories
The cat is the only one who can see us.
His name is Jekyll, and he’s half gray and half white. Sometimes he ignores us but sometimes
he stares at us, unblinking, until we give up and melt back into the walls. Jekyll isn’t afraid of
ghosts, but sometimes, when he stares at us like that, we are a little afraid of Jekyll.
The Day of the Sea
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July/August 2023
When the Sea came to our village, she was an old woman. She arrived when the water crested and draped over the earth, its salty fingers pushing out offerings of sea glass and bladder wrack. Her dress trailed behind her, hair tangled with kelp and tentacles. No one doubted that she was the Sea. Everyone was disappointed.
Beverly's Sonata
Not One of Us, Issue #75
When the record player first spoke to Beverly, it used the voice of her old piano. At first, just the whisper of air among strings, like a clearing of the throat. A single tap of the middle C. Then came the scales, forwards and backwards, and the muted thud of felted hammers against metal strings. Beverly took in a sharp breath. She'd learned to play her first notes on that piano, decades ago. She knew its vocabulary intimately: the delicate chuckle of the upper registers, the lisp of its sticky high A, the squeaky press-and-release of the sustain pedal. There was no mistaking it.
2022
Between the Storms
Worlds of Possibility
What the Water Left Behind
Into Chaos
A Recipe for Crocodile Tears
The Dread Machine, Issue 2.3
Sturgeon Moon Jam
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 86 (December 2022)
Spindle House
The Future Fire, 2022.63 (Autumn 2022)
Lisa's Garden
Kaleidotrope, August 2022
The Weight of It All
Fantasy Magazine, Issue 83 (September 2022)
Between the Lines
Factor Four Magazine, Issue 15 (September 2022)
Ninety-Five Percent of the Ocean
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2022
The Topography of Memory
Fusion Fragment, Issue #10
Opal, Everywhere
Not One of Us, Issue #69
2021
With the Nectar Comes the Sting
Apparition Lit, Issue 13
Til Human Voices Wake Us
Mermaids Monthly, Issue #3
The Taste of Centuries, the Taste of Home
khōréō, Issue 1.1
Reprinted in Immigrant Sci-Fi Short Stories
A Gardener Teaches His Son to Enrich the Soil and Plan for the Future
Triangulation: Habitats
2020
The Cat Lady and the Petitioner
Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 3
Reprinted in CatsCast Episode 1