2025 Eligibility& Bibliography

For awards season, I’d be honored if you’d consider these stories:

 

Graduated Justice: An Amelia Li Mystery (4054 words), Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 12, February 15, 2025. Genre: SF, Humor.

Mars Dome Police detective Amelia Li deals with chronic pain and a talking prosthetic leg while investigating a murder.

 

Null Empathy (950 words), Nature Futures, August 13, 2025. Genre: SF.

A cyborg must learn to blend in with the human population.

 

Changeling Bramble (350 words), Moon City Review, March 2025. Genre: Horror, Lit. (Print only; review copy available here). Nominated for Best Small Fictions!

A wolf, a rabbit, and starlight, all in a tiny gothic garden.

 

Jimmy. Fucking. Bang. (440 words), South Florida Poetry Review, Issue 39, November 2025. Genre: Lit, Fantasy. Included in P.A. Cornell’s 2025 Recap!

A ghost story with attitude, heavy on 80s nostalgia.

 

In addition to these stories, my MicroVerse Recommended Reading blog is eligible for Hugo fanzine & similar categories, and I’m eligible in fan writer categories. MicroVerse includes a monthly speculative flash roundup, as well as reviews and interviews with authors & publishers. A few examples:

 

2025 Bibliography

Links to all stories & poetry published in 2025. 

Fiction organized by length: micro, flash, short stories.

 

Micro (400 words or less)

 

Changeling Bramble (350 words), Moon City Review, March 2025. Genre: Horror, Lit. (Print only.)

A wolf, a rabbit, and starlight, all in a tiny gothic garden.

 

The Most Restful Stopover in the Galaxy (100 words), Penumbric Speculative Fiction, Volume 8, Issue 6, April 2025. Genre: SF, Humor.

A little alien needs a peaceful place to sleep.

 

Paperclip Empire (213 words), Flash Flood, June 14, 2025. Genre: Fantasy, Lit. (Reprint)

Radiant mice want to live in my house.

 

The Next Billionaire in the Queue (100 words), America’s Future by WWPH Press, September 2025. Genre: SF, Satire. Anthology available here.

Hacktivists fight against a corrupt system.

 

Borderland (317 words), Fractured Lit. Genre: Lit, Contemporary. (Reprint)

A woman hides in a cheap hotel to recover after an accident.

 

Flash (1000 words or less)

 

Amygdala (739 words), WOW Women on Writing Fall 2024 Flash Contest, February 13, 2025. Genre: Contemporary, Lit. (Reprint)

A woman encounters someone trying to gain entry to her garage, bringing up memories of past violence.

 

The Next Empty Cup (947 words), The Good Life Review, April 9, 2025. Genre: Contemporary, Lit.

Friends gather to acknowledge the passing of a larger-than-life member of their close-knit community.

 

Tascadora, Texas, 1935 (419 words), The Sunlight Press, April 21, 2025. Genre: Lit, Historical. 

Also reprinted by WOW Women on Writing, November 13, 2025. (Reprint)

A young girl considers a different kind of future when a rainmaker comes to town.

 

Null Empathy (950 words), Nature Futures, August 13, 2025. Genre: SF.

A cyborg must learn to blend in with the human population.

 

Jimmy. Fucking. Bang. (440 words), South Florida Poetry Review, Issue 39, November 2025. Genre: Lit, Fantasy.

A ghost story with attitude, heavy on 80s nostalgia.

 

Tough Guys (566 words), Blood+Honey, November 12, 2025. Genre: Contemporary.

A toxic corporate man tries to manage his temper, and gets more than he expected.

 

Short (7500 words or less)

 

The Luckiest Night (2735 words), MicroMance Magazine, Serialized in 3 parts: Jan 11, 18, 25, 2025. Genres: Fantasy, Romance.

A prince must solve a riddle to unlock his destiny.

 

Graduated Justice: An Amelia Li Mystery (4054 words), Translunar Travelers Lounge, Issue 12, February 15, 2025. Genre: SF, Humor.

Mars Dome Police detective Amelia Li deals with chronic pain and a talking prosthetic leg while investigating a murder.

 

Intersecting Datafields (1279 words), Manawaker Studios Flash Fiction Podcast, September 18, 2025. Genre: SF, Romance. (Reprint)

Cyborg love story!

 

What Did You Wish For? (2368 words), Writers Resist, December 25, 2025. Genre: SF, Satire.

Maria wants to make a cake for her daughter’s birthday, but a trillionaire and his corrupt carbon offset scheme get in her way.

 

POETRY

 

Let Us Dream (30 lines), reprinted in Seattle Worldcon 2025 Souvenir Book, August 2025. Genre: SF. 

Also reprinted in Small Wonders Best of Year One anthology, June 30, 2025. (Reprint)

Starcrossed cyborgs.