2025
“The Hag of Beinn Nibheis” (970 words). Flash Fiction Online #136. Published January 21, 2025.
A small mercy: she is alone. There is no one left in the village to laugh at a foolish old woman stumbling through the snow. No, no. There is no one left at all.
2024
“Linden Honey, Blackcurrant Wine” (3300 words). Beneath Ceaseless Skies #411. Published July 11, 2024.
What a fool to hope for more than silence—to think she might be welcomed, much less forgiven, after all this time! Irena stands alone in the heart of the grove, where she has never stood alone before, and lets disappointment settle like snow on her shoulders.
— Reviewed by Charles Payseur in Locus #764 as “a powerful and memorable narrative that simultaneously urges that it’s never too late to act out of love, and acknowledges that time is not infinite.”
— Reviewed by Maria Haskins in her Short Fiction Roundup as a “gorgeous, tender love story … a story of love and regret, but also of hope and joy.”
— Reviewed by Vanessa Fogg in her Short Fiction Recs as “a gorgeous fairy tale of love and of aging, of passing time and life.”
FORTHCOMING
“Lucinda Espinosa’s Twenty-Seventh Death.” Fusion Fragment #24.
Sometimes you have to chase your situationship across the multiverse. Sometimes you have to kill her.
“Hound, Hart, Crow, Queen.” Morgana le Fay: New and Ancient Arthurian Tales, Flame Tree Press.
In which Gwenhwyfar teaches Morgan the difference between what is and what might be.
“Erysichthon’s Daughter.” Small Wonders.
TFW your dad eats himself alive. (We’ve all been there before.)
“Handsomest Gentlest.” Haven Spec.
Consider this: dogs are very, very good.