Short Fiction & Poetry
Collections & Anthologies
Recent Years’ Bests:
“The Rain Remembers What the Sky Forgets,” The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, (July 2024)
“Shadow Plane,” The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror (July 2023)
“Unseelie Brothers, LTD.”, The Year’s Best Fantasy, Vol. 1 (July 2022)
“A Catalog of Storms,” The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy ; The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (2019)
“Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left,” The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror (2017)
From A Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi: “No Contingency”
Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors.
Screams from the Dark: “Midway”
Screams From the Dark is a chilling anthology featuring 29 all-original tales of monsters from bestselling and award-winning authors, edited by Ellen Datlow, one of the top editors in horror.
ISBN 9781250797063
His Hideous Heart: “The Fall of the Bank of Usher”
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Best of Uncanny: “The Sea Never Says It Loves You” & “Clearly Lettered, in a Mostly Steady Hand”
The Best of Uncanny collects many of the best stories and poems from the first 22 issues of Uncanny Magazine.
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Infinity’s End: “The Synchronist”
Infinity’s End contains stories of a future that’s lived in; of a life in space that’s hard and lonely, whether it’s inside Saturn’s rings or a colony in the clouds of Neptune.
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Futurescapes: “Happenstance”
Eclipse Phase: After the Fall “The Thousandth Cycle”
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The Death of All Things: “Death and My Mentions”
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Literary Magazines
The following stories can be found in various magazines, journals, and zines.
"The Rain Remembers What The Sky Forgets," Uncanny Magazine, May/June 2023
“The Midway,” 29 Screams from The Dark, June 2022.
“Shadow Plane,” Weird Tales, Spring 2022. selected for Years' Best Dark Fantasy & Horror
"My Cloak of Keys," The Deadlands, Vol. 10, January 2022
"Seed Star," Asimov's Science Fiction, July/August 2021.
"Unseelie Brothers Ltd.," Uncanny Magazine, May/June 2021. Best Fantasy of 2021, Hugo Finalist, Locus Reading List
“Mayor For Today,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, January/February 2021.
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“An Explorer’s Cartography of Already-Settled Lands,” Tor.com, April 2020.
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“A Catalog of Storms,“ Uncanny Magazine, January 2019.
Nebula Award Finalist ∙ Hugo Award Finalist ∙ Locus Award Finalist ∙ 2020 Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy ∙ 2020 Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror ∙ The Saga Anthology: 2020 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy
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“The 10,000th Cycle," Future Magazine, 2019.
“Choose Wisely,” Fireside Fiction, December 2018.
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“The Sea Never Says It Loves You,” Uncanny Magazine, March 2018.
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“Ruby, Singing,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September/October 2018.
BSFA Longlist
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“Disconnect,” Uncanny Magazine: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction, October 2018.
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"A Recipe for Magic," co-written with Kat Howard, BarnesandNoble.com, 2017.
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“Clearly Lettered in a Mostly Steady Hand” Uncanny Magazine, September 2017.
2018 Eugie Foster Award Winner ∙ Nebula Award Finalist ∙ Hugo Award Finalist ∙ World Fantasy Award Finalist
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“Regarding Your Future with the Futures Planning Consortium,” with Raq Winchester, Fireside Fiction, April 2017.
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“Only Their Shining Beauty Was Left," Shimmer, September 2016.
2016 Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror ∙ 2016 Locus Rrecommended Reading List ∙ WSFA Small Press Award Finalist
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“A Moment of Gravity Circumscribed (A Bone Universe Story),” Lightspeed Magazine, October 2016.
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“Bent the Wing, Dark the Cloud,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies, September 2015.
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“You Are Two Point Three Meters from Your Destination,” Uncanny Magazine, Spring 2015.
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“With Regrets, the Official Report of the Ballot Incident at the Academy Scientific (The Naturalist Cycle),” Lakeside Circus Year Two, Issue One, 2015.
“How to Walk through Historic Graveyards in the Digital Age,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2015.
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“Welcome Briefing At The Obayashi-Ragan Youth Hostel” Abyss & Apex, October 2014.
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“Like a Wasp to the Tongue,” Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2014.
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“Nine Dishes on the Cusp of Love,” Daily Science Fiction, June 2014.
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"Local Delicacies," Drabblecast #328, June 2014. Read by Lauren Synger.
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“The Topaz Marquise,” Beneath Ceaseless Skies issue #152, July 2014.
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“Without,” Nature, September 2012.
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“Everlasting,” Daily Science Fiction, September 2011.
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