short fiction
2026
Small Wonders (2026)
For when Jacqueline saw the lists for Le Grande Carrousel writ large upon the holoscroll, and learned she would not meet Chevalière Violette Montagne in any of the hastiludes until the final mêlée, she proclaimed, “Thank God,” and went forth, rejoicing.
2025
“The holy man was bringing healing water from the sacred mountain.” Claudio bends down to her height, hunching his broad shoulders to whisper to her. “Guess somebody killed him for it.”
Frivolous Comma (2025)
Of course, Ash hadn’t yet heard of the prophecy himself, and certainly nobody else noticed it coming true, because obviously, he went in his human form. He wasn’t born yesterday. Ma and Pa had taught him secrecy since his first transformation as a teenager.
Heartlines Spec (2025)
by S.C. Mills and Kaitlin Schmidt
As Repairman Oliver journeys home after university (and a successful Genderizing Spell), his beloved Talia is trapped in her Truth-Seer's Faith Journey. Can their love survive pirates, thieves, and magic?
Wyngraf Cozy Fantasy Romance Special (2025)
Manny was winding up for another of his favorite political rants. I went back to my phone, where the algorithm showed me endless proud, beaming trad-hubbies displaying magnificent roast birds.
MetaStellar (2025)
Steady as the earth below, until they weren’t.
NYC Midnight 500-word Contest Winner (2025)
Last Girls Club (2025)
She wrenched out her headphones, ran through flight safety stats in her head, and kept her ass planted in her window seat. She was making it back home this time. She was not saying goodbye to another loved one over the phone. Not again.
MetaStellar (2025)
The Circus Collective (2025)
Luis taps the last car and feels it—that sideways-slip in his sight, the ground twisting under him—symptoms that say an object’s got history. Sometimes, like this time, it’s the murder weapon that’s itching to snitch, by way of a vision of the victim’s last moments.
Twisted Horrors (2025)
An auspicious sun, red as rouge-smeared lips, rises over a stagnant sea.
Crepuscular (2025)
How to Move On (After Your Girlfriend’s Treatment Fails)
100-foot Crow (2025)
Rest her old wristwatch over your heart. It stopped ticking the day she died.
Wait. Your heart will stop ticking too.
“Why should you be the one to become stone?” Athena extends her hand. Within it squirms a ball of writhing snakes.
The Anti-Misogyny Club (2025)
2024
He doesn’t fear needles. It’s the anticipation, the acceleration in his pulse before the shot breaks skin. He dreads that moment of known helplessness before the blow falls.
Writing Battle Microfiction Contest Winner (2024)
Sci-Fi Shorts (2024)
I’m nothing without Her.
Then, he brings her bliss, ebbing and flowing like breeze rippling the pond. Like wings beating air above water, preceding the stillness of floating.
miniskirt magazine (2024)
A cheery woman turned from the table to address the camera. “As a mother of four, I can’t just take a day off. My kids need me! But with Anaesomia, I can have a taste of the oblivion I crave, while they get the best possible version of their mom, too.”
Sci-Fi Shorts (2024)
nonfiction
The Product is Docs: Writing technical documentation in a product development group
by Chris Gales and the Splunk Documentation Team