Short Fiction

Award-Winning, Finalist & Shortlisted Short Fiction

Illustration by Theory Wynn Art

Published Stories

“Baby” (NonBinary Review Issue #39: Mistaken Identity, 2025)

“The Magic in Our Hands” (Pick Your Potion, 2024)

“Smol Animaux” (Pick Your Potion, 2024)

“Overnight, a Forest Grew” illustration by Margot Jenner

“Overnight, a Forest Grew” (Pick Your Potion, 2024)

“Marina, Hel and Cady Save the Universe” (Pick Your Potion, 2024)

“Solace“
– Originally published in Stupefying Stories (2023)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“Nowhere, Australia”
– Originally published in The Vanishing Point – Issue 7 (2023)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“The Most Powerful Witch in Witchville”
– Originally published in Aurealis #163 (2023)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“This Is (Not) My Beautiful Cat“
– Originally published in Stupefying Stories (2023)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“La Vie En Mer“
– Originally published in Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, June/July 2023, Vol. IV Issue 06 (2023)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“Inheritance“
– Originally published in Stupefying Stories (2022)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“Restoration“
– Originally published in Stupefying Stories (2022)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“Rewind“
– Originally published in The Dread Machine (2022)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“The White Factory”
– Originally published in The Quarter(ly) Vol. III (2022)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“Faewild”
– Originally published in Wyldblood 10 (2022)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“Neuro” illustration by Margot Jenner

“Neuro”
– Originally published in The Art of Being Human (2022)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“Last Text”
– Originally published in Daily Science Fiction (2021)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“Traces of Us, Hot Enough for Dinner” illustration by Margot Jenner

“Traces of Us, Hot Enough for Dinner“
– Originally published in The Dread Machine (2021)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“Watchhouse“
– Originally published in The Dread Machine (2021)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“Ringing in Her Ears” (Stupefying Stories, 2021)

“Lovely Lilas“
– Originally published in Utopia Science Fiction Magazine (2021)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“Light and Sleek and Strong“
– Originally published in Wyldblood (2020)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“All the Times I’m Ten“
– Originally published in The Year After (2020)
– Reprinted in Small Wonders (2023)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)
– Reprinted in Best of Small Wonders Magazine Year One (2025)

“The Candle Queen” illustration by Margot Jenner

“The Candle Queen“
– Originally published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (2020)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“CurioQueens” illustration by Margot Jenner

“CurioQueens“
– Originally published in Constellary Tales Issue No. 4 (2019)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“The Orchard” illustration by Margot Jenner

“The Orchard”
– Originally published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #76 (2019)
– Reprinted in Best Stories: Vol. 4 (2021)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“When the Ice Comes In“
– Originally published in Kaleidotrope (2019)
– Reprinted in Pick Your Potion (2024)

“The Secret Death of Lane Islington” illustration by Margot Jenner

“The Secret Death of Lane Islington”
– Originally published in Next Curious Thing (2018)
– Reprinted in Curious Fictions (2020)
– Reprinted in Portals, Gateways, and Doors (2024)

“All the First Born Children” (Next Curious Thing, 2018)

“And the Queen was Vein” (Next Curious Thing, 2018)

“Everybody Knows” (Next Curious Thing, 2018)

“Honey in the Blood” (Next Curious Thing, 2018)

“Emelia and the Undrowned”
– Originally published in Next Curious Thing (2018)
– Reprinted in Curious Fictions (2020)

“Easy Like Arsenic”
– Originally published in Dimension6, Issue 15 (2018)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)

“Cavorts With Foxes”
– Originally published in Wild Musette Journal: Vegetable Pulp (2018)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)

“Five Tales of The Rose Palace” illustration by Margot Jenner

“Five Tales of The Rose Palace“
– Originally published in The Future Fire, Issue 2018.46 (2018)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)

“As Long as We Both Shall Live and After, Too“
– Originally published in HashtagQueer Vol. 2 (2018)
– Reprinted in Curious Fictions (2019)
– Reprinted in Indecent Magazine (2022)

“In The Beginning, All Our Hands Are Cold” illustration by Margot Jenner

“In The Beginning, All Our Hands Are Cold“
– Originally published in Syntax & Salt (2017)
– Reprinted in 2018 Best of the Net Anthology (2018)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)
– Reprinted in Etherea Magazine #13 (2022)

“Little Freedoms” illustration by Margot Jenner

“Little Freedoms“
– Originally published in Shoreline of Infinity 10 (2017)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)
– Reprinted in The Chosen from the First Age (2019)
– Reprinted in Curious Fictions (2019)
– Reprinted in PseudoPod (2022)

“Strange Dancemates” illustration by Margot Jenner

“Strange Dancemates“
– Originally published in GigaNotoSaurus (2016)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)

“Morning Sickness”
– Originally published in Slink Chunk Press (2016)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)

“From Strangers”
– Originally published in Strange Little Girls (2016)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)

“One More Time”
– Originally published in The Misfit Anthology (2015)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)

“Wrecked” illustration by Margot Jenner

“Wrecked”
– Originally published in Aurealis #78 (2014)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)
– Reprinted in Curious Fictions (2020)

“Sickly Sweet”
– Originally published in Black Apples (2014)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)
– Reprinted in Curious Fictions (2019)
– Reprinted on Ephiny Gale’s YouTube channel (audio version) (2022)
– Reprinted in A Coven of Witches (2023)
– Reprinted in Grimm Retold (2024)

“Candy”
– Originally published in Postscripts to Darkness Volume 4 (2013)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)

“The Light Princess“
– Originally published in The Future Fire, Issue 2013.27 (2013)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)
– Reprinted in Concrete Queers 13 (2020)

“Magnets”
– Originally published in Punchnel’s (2013)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)

“Experience”
– Originally published in Daily Science Fiction (2013)
– Reprinted in Next Curious Thing (2018)

“Not That Kind of Witch” (Fried Fiction, 2012)

“The Red Thread” (Silver Blade, 2012)

“Sleepwalking” (Silver & Green, 2005)