Bizarre Tales

forthcoming

The Court of Mouths (Pseudopod, reprint)

out now

Sap and Marrow (Common Bonds 2: An Anthology of Aromantic SFF): "There had been others over the years who wandered to his cabin, their eyes heavy with a kind of love that rolled off Beron’s skin like oil across water. He did not think that was why Karo kept sitting at his table to argue into the night. He thought, perhaps, that what Karo needed was something Beron could actually give him: companionship. Compassion. Peace."

Troglodyte (The Muddy Goose Guide to the Weird Northwest): " I thought it was normal. Years pass, and one day you walk down into the bright wash of morning sunlight and realize that the familiar, boring face of the person we love is just a shell over something dark and unknowable. And no matter how we convince ourselves that the surface reflects the interior, we have no idea of knowing what might be growing inside. That’s marriage."

Hemorrhage (Pseudopod): "It’s a dumb fight to pick, but I only learn that later." (reprint)

POV: I'm The Dead Wife In Your Flashback (Pseudopod): "Being carved down to the purest distillation of someone else’s desire is actually kind of my specialty. I’m just worried you don’t appreciate how difficult it is to be your Smiling Dead Wife Under The White Bedsheets."

Tongue of the Necrophage (Interstellar Flight Press): "A dead name could cut deep, honed sharp by years of misuse. Kal felt theirs like a hook in the center of their back, dragging them towards the shouts that echoed through the trees."

Passage (Beyond the Bounds of Infinity: An Anthology of Diverse Horror): "Cutting into the frozen earth would have killed two men more, so they buried Edward Jeffries under a cairn of loose stone."

In The Last Room You'll Ever Know (Strange Machines Micro Fiction Anthology, Apex Publishing)

Hemorrhage (The Book of Queer Saints, Vol. II)

The Temple of All (Escalators to Hell: Shopping Mall Horrors): "Makoma approached the temple from the west, as generations of king-widows had done before her."

In Vast and Fecund Reaches We Will Meet Again (Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia): As parasitic architecture overtakes her family's farm, Marsh submits herself to its service.

Excision (Fusion Fragment): A company-mandated neural lock makes the hard labor on the melting permafrost easier to bear. The only question is how much of your mind truly remains your own.

The Court of Mouths (Moonflowers and Nightshade: An Anthology of Sapphic Horror): As the head chef in a court of ravenous fae, Pela must carry out her wife's eternal punishment: to be forever devoured at the feastlord's table.

Burrower (NoSleep Podcast): An anthropologist visits a strange cult who ritually self-mutilate to prevent a strange fate.

As The Sea Drinks Our Salt (Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness): The sea gods are hungry, and Captain Damarcus refuses to feed them. But after defecting from a bloodthirsty navy to sail under a pirate flag, she cannot afford to ignore their whims for much longer.

Lingua Franca (Metaphorosis): Digital telepathy is the new norm — except for Vauneant's community, who fiercely reject any form of technological enhancement.

Sea Shanties (Apparition): An old high school crush drowns under mysterious circumstances, and a shipwreck survivor spirals into her own memories.

Terroir (Lamplight): You can never escape the ground that made you.