Published in 2023. Grouped by Speculative Short Stories, Speculative Poetry, Literary Flash, and Creative Nonfiction. Thank you for your consideration!
Speculative Short Stories
- The Four Gifts of Empress Lessa Beneath Ceaseless Skies, 1529 words, Oct 19. Audio here. Included in the 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List. Featured in Maria Haskins’ October 2023 Short Fiction Roundup and Vanessa Fogg’s October/November 2023 Short Fiction Recs. Reviewed by Charles Payseur in Locus Magazine, here. (Fantasy)
- Come Out, Come Out Radon Journal, 433 words, May 14. Nominated for Best of the Net 2024, Best New Weird Horror, and The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 16. Featured in Maria Haskins’ May 2023 Maria’s Reading Roundup and Eugenia Triantafyllou’s 2023 Beautiful Stories roundup. (SF/Horror)
- “Intersecting Datafields” in Robotic Ambitions: Tales of Mechanical Sentience anthology (Apex Books), 1275 words, Nov 15. Reviewed here. Awards consideration pdf available. (SF)
- The Great Chickenomachy of Chandler County, Kentucky Metastellar, 776 words, June 1. (SF/Horror/Humor)
- “Situation Normal” SNAFU: Punk’d Anthology, 2760 words, Oct 31. Author spotlight here. Awards consideration pdf available. (SF/Horror/Humor)
Speculative Poetry
- Let Us Dream Small Wonders, 30 lines / 270 words, Sept 20. Reviewed here. Nominated for SFPA’s Rhysling Award. (SF/Horror) (Short Poem)
Literary Flash Fiction
- Wish Upon from The Potential of Radio and Rain, 100 words, Feb 1. (Literary) (Micro) (Reprinted in The Sunlight Press Sept 20)
- Blackberry Nights Cease, Cows, 142 words, March 30. Selected for Best Microfiction 2024. (Literary/Fantasy/Horror) (Micro)
- Daily Special New World Writing, 293 words, July 8. (Literary) (Micro)
- Suburban Median Writers Resist, 277 words, December 14 (Literary / Social Commentary) (micro)
- Hometown Johnnies originally published in The Middle House Review. Reprinted in Fractured Lit, 384 words, September 25. Selected for Best Microfiction 2024. Nominated for Best of the Net and longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 (Literary) (Micro)
Creative Nonfiction
- Timestruck 100 Word Story, June 1. (Literary) (Micro)