Short Stories
“Machine Dreams for Wired People” Spring 2025 (#22) issue of Cirsova Magazine. Available March 19th!
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Blurb, from Cirsova Magazine: “A family infiltration team is hired to break into a cybernetic AI factory to rescue the itinerant daughter of a wealthy benefactor before her mind can be liquified!”
“Gloryhound” as part of the Shoot the Devil 3: Militia of Martyr’s anthology.
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Blurb: A beast stalks the woods of France, devouring men, women, and children with the cold, cruel efficiency of a man. Hundreds have hunted the Beast of the Gévaudan, but none are quite like Jean Chastel. He follows the Beast’s trail and prays for an end to the carnage. When a mysterious girl arrives, knowing things only the dead could know, Jean soon realizes that his prayers have been answered. But the hunt has only just begun, and the end is in the sacrifice.
“Homefront” as part of Anvil Magazine Issue 4.
Blurb, from Anvil: “A housewife’s work is never done. She must get the children ready for school, tend the garden, clean the house, buy groceries, greet the new neighbors, and suss out any extraterrestrial activity and neutralize it before her husband gets home!”
“Extra Credit,” published in November of 2023 as part of Fantastic School Staff, edited by Christopher G. Nuttall and L. Jagi Lamplighter.
Blurb, from Fantastic School Staff: “Only enchanted treasure could drag a pair of master thieves back to school. Hired on as teachers, Pricilla and Chase must once again navigate the halls of Washington Academy, dodging teachers and students alike in order to steal Vivienne’s Locket. It’ll take all their skills, plus some extra credit, to pull off this heist.”
“Afflicted: Nourritures les Ver” was published in the Fall 2023 issue of Anvil: Iron Age Magazine (Issue #2), you can order a copy from the links below.
Blurb, from Anvil: “Amélia Mitre is Afflicted. Cursed by a pact of her own making, she is made to follow the Weird Way of Scealfe, God of Death of Decay. Summoned to the industrializing city of Beauanne, the Cursed Doctor finds herself investigating a disturbing disease that defies the laws of nature and therefore, the laws of her dark patron. She must discover the origins of the plague and punish anyone foolish enough to pretend rivalry with the God of Death.”
“Egg,” my first short story, was published in the Spring 2023 issue of Cirsova Magazine (Issue #14).
Blurb, from Cirsova Magazine: “A geo-seismic research team is stationed on the strange moon Epsilon Epsilon Six, better known as Egg, a smooth and volatile body that could go at any moment!”
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