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

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

2020

The Cat Lady and the Petitioner

Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 3

Reprinted in CatsCast Episode 1

Mirrored

Flash Fiction Online, May 2020

Reprinted in Hidden Realms Short Stories

2019

A Word for What We Have

Apparition Lit, Issue 8

Getaway

PodCastle Fantasy Fiction Podcast, Episode 585

Reprinted in Fusion Fragment, Issue 4

2018

All the Rest is Silence

Daily Science Fiction

A Promise

Apparition Lit, Issue 1

Reprinted in The Drabblecast 431

Changed

Endless Apocalypse Short Stories

2017

The Old Woman on the Subway

Hypertext Magazine