Fiction

Listed in reverse chronological order.

All free to read online at respective links unless stated otherwise

Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole
Clarkesworld, February 2024

  • (SF) Cashing in my “science fiction writer does an Omelas retelling” check. Mind the title. It’s about the title.

You Will Not Live to See M/M Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension
Lightspeed Magazine, August 2023

  • (F) Achilles visits the Oracle of Delphi.

The Labyrinth Loop
Assemble Artifacts, June 2023 (sorry, you have to buy this one)

  • (SF) Icarus, trapped in a time loop created by his father, searches for a way to get out.

Day Ten Thousand
Clarkesworld, June 2023

Clarkesworld Reader’s Poll Finalist
2023 Locus Recommended Reading List

  • (SF) I got nothing for you, this one’s weird even for me.

Zeta-Epsilon 
Clarkesworld, March 2023
Clarkesworld Reader’s Poll Finalist
2023 Locus Recommended Reading List

  • (SF) Nonlinear spaceship heist.

The Narrative Implications of Your Untimely Death
Lightspeed Magazine, January 2023

  • (SF) Murdergames vs. the narrative vs. becoming the villain.

The Big Glass Box and the Boys Inside
Apex Magazine, January 2023
2023 Locus Recommended Reading List

  • (F) Fae, lawyers, and inadvisable decisions involving your officemate.

Calf Cleaving in the Benthic Black
Clarkesworld, November 2022
Clarkesworld Reader’s Poll Winner!

  • (SF) Two spaceship scavengers crack open a generation ship and discover an ethical conundrum.

Termination Stories for the Cyberpunk Dystopia Protagonist
Clarkesworld, July 2022
Clarkesworld Reader’s Poll Finalist
2022 Locus Recommended Reading List
Reprinted in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023

  • (SF) Cool and Sexy Asian Girl’s life in the lotus eater machine.

You, Me, Her, You, Her, I
Strange Horizons, June 2022 (Fund Drive Special!)
2022 Locus Recommended Reading List

  • (SF) An AI is given the opportunity to become an artist. Sort of about the question of why anyone makes anything. Meshes interestingly with the current AI/art discourse.

Christopher Mills, Return to Sender
Fantasy Magazine, February 2022

  • (F) A necromancer brings her brother back to life to confront his killer, the brother mostly wants to drink Jamba Juice.

Plausible Realities, Improbable Dreams
Lightspeed, February 2022

  • (SF) A love story set in a collapsing multiverse.

The Massage Lady at Munjeong Road Bathhouse
Clarkesworld, February 2022
Clarkesworld Reader’s Poll Finalist
2022 Locus Recommended Reading List
Reprinted in the Year’s Best Fantasy Volume 2

  • (F) Choices are hard.

Clay
Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2022

  • (F) Bodies are clay but capitalism is still capitalisming.

AP Practical Literary Theory Suggests This is a Quest
Cast of Wonders, November 2021

  • (F) Four teens on a trip to resurrect their zombie friend and also, get illicitly drunk.

You’ll Understand When You’re a Mom Someday
khōréō, October 2021
2021 Shirley Jackson Award Winner

  • (F/H) Motherhood when you’re a noneuclidean tentacle thing. Lovecraft would spin in his grave.

Homecoming is Just Another Word for the Sublimation of the Self
Clarkesworld, March 2021
2021 Locus Recommended Reading List
Clarkesworld Reader’s Poll Finalist
2021 Subjective Chaos Kind of Award Winner

  • (SF) Immigration duplicates identity…literally.

Interviews

Sometimes people ask me questions and then I answer them.

Reverse-chronological order.

Miscellany

Other stuff I think is fun. Not in chronological order.

Kingmaker
Sub-Q Magazine - Interactive Fiction Game !!

  • You want the throne. You dream of empire.

Infinite Artwork Simulator
Hosting TBD (Sorry, down while I figure out new hosting.)

Short Story Submissions Guide
My blog

  • If you really don’t know where to start with short fiction submissions, there are worse places.