Short fiction, poetry, and translations, arranged at your fancy.
Heavens Fall The Long List Anthology Volume 9
translation 2025 Sep 6710 wordsOrbs large and small conferred, the vassal states thus adorned, anointed by the Heavens.
- Translation of 杞忧 by 陆秋槎/Lu Qiucha originally published in 银河边缘/Galaxy’s Edge 013.
The Astronomer Aspiring Rosalind’s Siblings
poetry 2023 Sep 177 wordsdo you think yourself / a cartographer
the burning river Uncanny Magazine
poetry 2021 Nov 83 wordsand I choose not to spend / purgatory hating you
- Dwarf Stars nominee, 2022.
The Empathy Lessons Fireside
fiction 2021 Sep 1160 wordsThe understanding that the world does not see itself through your eyes, the acceptance thereof.
Arenous Fantasy Magazine
fiction 2021 Mar 2600 wordsSand is for her and her alone.
- Interviewed by Veronica Henry for the Author Spotlight.
knowing too much, paralyzed jubilat
poetry 2021 Mar 110 wordsfalling / is different at two vs. fifty-two
sound science | Pacifica/Evergreen Climbing Lightly Through Forests
poetry 2021 Jan 270 wordssay the perseids. say the greek fire hailing down
Dream Soft, Dream Big Future Tense
fiction 2020 Dec 5400 wordsComplete the sequence—the wheel, the printing press, the transistor ... what’s next?
softening, come morning Fantasy Magazine
poetry 2020 Dec 84 wordsI am standing next to / the unsunken earth
Proof of Existence Uncanny Magazine
fiction 2020 Nov 6100 wordsNo flashing light, no puff of smoke. This isn’t the movies.
- Read by Joy Piedmont for the Uncanny Magazine Podcast, 2020.
Chicken Time Recognize Fascism, World Weaver Press
fiction 2020 Oct 4600 wordsBawk bawk!
- Also published in New Haven Review Issue 24
synthia.py Fireside
fiction 2020 Oct 1200 wordsI want to pour my head out from my left ear into your new chalice.
- Read by Hollis Beck for Fireside, 2020.
anatomicon Twisted Moon
poetry 2020 Aug 170 wordsthis is / the specter of blue, the sky, / all of it.
to my ghost by the sound Twisted Moon
poetry 2020 Aug 190 wordsopaque pang they would call / love, that rarefied thing
hurricane eye, neat | braking before the crash Prism Review
poetry 2020 Jun 130 wordsmix equal parts helpless and culpable. form into original shapes.
Only Treading Wizards in Space
poetry 2020 Feb 190 wordsHere amidst the Pacific / I have forgotten dryness.
Recollecting soil Qwerty Magazine
poetry 2020 Jan 130 wordsthe kind of thing you build / by hand, two of
denaturing Alegrarse Journal poetry 2019 Dec 100 words
the invader, goddess of the electric / hand.
findings at sea Pretty Cool Poetry Thing
poetry 2019 Nov 120 wordsonce there was meaning / but I swallowed
oubliette Newmyths.com
poetry 2019 Sep 180 wordsBreaking: Extraterrestrial Objects Found To Be Marketing Hoax
rope spawn heal over Pretty Cool Poetry Thing
poetry 2019 Sep 90 wordsthe red oaks all strings / not like artificial straw
what we gain in translation Kweli Journal
poetry 2019 Sep 130 wordseverything is // different. half of me too.
The Specular Boy DreamForge Magazine
fiction 2019 Sep 4500 wordsIt didn't take long for Laura Herrera to notice that something was strange about her twins.
Pomegranate–Persephone | Summer, scalloped edges of (colorized) Muse/A Journal
2019 Aug 280 wordsYour bird protests, but she does not know winter.
Signal to Noise Wikimedia Heart of Knowledge Contest
poetry 2019 Jul 200 wordsThey’re singing a chanson outside.
new mass | Only Found in Dreams Book XI: A Journal of Literary Philosophy
poetry 2019 May 180 wordsthe body is light and fruit. / the mind is color and water.
seven heads RECLAIM: An Anthology of Women's Poetry
poetry 2019 May 360 wordswhy did she take residence in you, how did she grow?
sundown Through the Gate
poetry 2019 May 220 wordsthe clock chimes six and / you transform into a different person.
Firelight, Firebright | runes, ruins Astral Waters Review
poetry 2019 May 230 wordsI have seen the light, / and you will be struck blind.
sun caves | sea-child, sea-mother The Hellebore
poetry 2019 Apr 230 wordswithout / light there are no things, there / is no shadow.
Sunday Cleansing ellipsis...Literature & Art
poetry 2019 Apr 120 wordsI can tell you're / thinking of your heart things again.
metaflor 01 | metaflor 10 | Things I’m Not filling Station
poetry 2019 Apr 190 wordsmyself a vessel for / the eternal things.
man drawn soft surface
poetry 2019 Mar 63 wordsshe goes between / the flat and real with // a thought.
Outfield Syntax & Salt
fiction 2019 Mar 400 wordsOn the tarpaulin I lay your body, cold and rigid as the geometry you love.
- Best of the Net nominee, 2019.
- Read by me at Story Hour (starts 25:43), 2020.
Ruby, Ruby, Black Sand The Bare Life Review
fiction 2019 Mar 3200 wordsThe neighbor’s girl coughs rubies and sapphires.
- Reprinted in Goddess Bandit of the Thousand Arms, 2020.
- Read by me at Story Hour (starts 28:50), 2020.
But for Grace If This Goes On
fiction 2019 Mar 5000 wordsVivian clutched the bag in her lap and thought of winged things.
Dark the Sky, Rust the Earth Gorgon: Stories of Emergence
fiction 2019 Feb 900 words...a beat beneath his feet, a quickening in his pulse.
Majorana, Back Again Strange Horizons
poetry 2019 Feb 200 words“What do you mean, backwards?”
- Podcasted by Strange Horizons, 2019.
something resembling good news The Knicknackery
poetry 2019 Feb 180 wordswhy we only love people after they die/I don't understand.
f/loss | specific heat | knight to mate in one | beldam? bedlam? Lockjaw Magazine
poetry 2019 Feb 400 wordsI need.
Shelly Scully | litotes | five forms of tigers Argot Magazine
poetry 2019 Jan 300 wordsI am thinking of a sharp thing.
Steeped in Stars Uncanny Magazine
poetry 2019 Jan 300 wordsroots, not wings.
- Podcasted by Uncanny Magazine, 2019.
Do you love me more than the stars? Helios Quarterly Magazine
fiction 2018 Nov 1400 wordsI laughed at your question in the glittery grass, our only cover the mantle of twilight.
cardioid Uncanny Magazine
poetry 2018 Nov 61 wordsslip between the grating of my/ribs
- Podcasted by Uncanny Magazine, 2018.
Seraphima Liminality
poetry 2018 Jun 190 wordsI did not know it would hurt/this much to turn into an angel.
- Rhysling nominee, 2018.
Cast Off Tight Fireside
fiction 2018 Jun 3200 wordsIt is all an accident.
- Locus Recommended Reading, 2018.
The Noctilucent Paradox in E Minor XPRIZE
fiction 2017 Sep 4000 wordsThe cello is her voice box and she lets it out.