Fiction

Looped.

  • Heartlines, November 2025
  • The good news is, they’re going to name a time loop after you.


The Fate You Choose.


Silence, in the Doorway, with the Gun.

  • Flash Fiction Online, September 2025
  • Retelling of Le Roman de Silence, only I added time loops and gave Silence a gun
  • There are two doors. The problem is, there’s a goddess in front of each.


Five Things You Can See.

  • Strange Horizons, May 2025
  • Charles Payseur said some nice things about this in Locus.
  • The woman your counselor is talking about isn’t your mother. She’s you. Your future self, traveled back in time.


The Lord of Mice's Arrows.

  • Strange Horizons, November 2024
  • Retelling of Cupid and Psyche, with side helpings of Galatea, the Oresteia, and myriad others
  • Statues are only beautiful until they move. Then they become monsters.


Another Old Country

  • Apparition Literary Magazine, July 2024
  • Mash-up of Tochmarc Étaíne (medieval Irish epic) with Maiden Swifter than Horses (Serbian fairytale)
  • I’m telling you this now so that you remember not everyone in this world gets called by their real name, and because I want to be as honest a translator as I can.


Then Came the Ghost of My Dead Mother, Antikleia.

  • Apex Magazine, January 2024
  • Retelling of the Nekuia, from Book 11 of the Odyssey
  • Audio version in Space Cowboy Books Presents: Simultaneous Times
  • When you were young, Mama sent you away from the land of the dead and told you not to look back.