Short Stories & Poetry

 
 
 
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Madness Afoot

Prince Charming’s sister offers her perspective in this epistolary Cinderella retelling.

Printed in the Sept/Oct 2019 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

 
 
Mural by @veraprimavera

Mural by @veraprimavera

 

A Feast of Butterflies

A constable assigned to a backwater county finds himself confronted with his own past when told to investigate a strange girl who has begun to eat butterflies.

Printed in the Mar/Apr 2020 issue of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.

 
 
 

Easily Diminished at the Edges

An alien apocalypse seems imminent, and as the narrator notes in the words of Benjamin Franklin, a great empire is like a great cake…easily diminished at the edges.

Printed in September 2020 by Daily Science Fiction

 
 
 

A Strange and Muensterous Desire

A new and mysterious boy arriving at school, townspeople disappearing, and a friend’s newfound fascination with woodworking are nothing to Zorah when compared with the real priority: winning the State Fair Grilled Cheese Competition. Dairy escapism and satire of the undead.

*Selected for the 2022 Locus Recommended Reading List

Printed in May 2022 by Diabolical Plots

 
 
 

The Drowned One

A poem about a ghost, a riverbank, and revenge.

 
 
 
Two young women paddle a canoe on the East River with an elderly woman possessed by a spirit in the middle. In the background, ibises fly over a climate-ravaged downtown New York City
 

The Ibbur and the Ibis

Two sisters agree to ferry an ibbur and her host across the East River to help her complete a final task in this tale of a climate-ravaged yet hopeful future.

Printed in Augur Magazine 5.2