Short Stories

2024

"Beneath the Unreal Gardens of the Virtual Villa," Cast of Wonders 618, Dec 22, 2024. Read or listen free online.

2022

"Shattered Petals of Celadon," Daily Science Fiction, January 11, 2022. Reprinted in audio in Podcastle Episode 787.

"Seafoam & Cinders," Flash Fiction Online, July 2022. Read it free online.

2020

"Upcycling Death", Brain Games: Stories to Astonish, October 2020. Find the anthology here.

"Useful Parasites", Keyforge: Tales from the Crucible. Sept 1, 2020. Find the anthology here.

"The Librarian's Duel", Keyforge: Tales from the Crucible. Sept 1, 2020. Find the anthology here.

"This is How the Rain Falls", Daily Science Fiction, May 18, 2020.

2019

"Staircase to the Moon", Fireside, July 2019 issue. Read or listen to it online.

"The End of Lunar Hens", Analog, March/April 2019 issue.

"The King's Mirror", Strange Horizons, January 21, 2019. Read it free online or listen to the podcast.

2018

"Shod in Memories", Daily Science Fiction, October 25, 2018.

"Ghost of the Pepper", Flash Fiction Online. September 2018 issue. Read it free online. Reprinted by KYSO Flash.

"Glass in Frozen Time", Diabolical Plots #43A. Read it free online.

"Seeds of the Soul Flower", Daily Science Fiction, July 30, 2018.

"Ana's Asteroid", Cast of Wonders Episode 301. Available free, as an audio podcast or text. The novel Ana's Asteroid continues where this short story leaves off.

"The Sixth Axiom of the Magician-Sages", in Myriad Paradigm's anthology Mind Candy.

2017

"Exhaling Memories", Aliterate, Volume 3.

"The Eternal Army," Daily Science Fiction, October 3, 2017.

"The Chaos Village", Podcastle. Episode 471 and 472. Available free, as an audio podcast. Part One and Part Two.

2016

"Dragon Soap," Fireside Magazine. Issue 38. Available for free online.

"Words of Creation," Daily Science Fiction, November 7, 2016.

"Dragon-Smoked Barbeque," Strange Horizons, September 12, 2016. Available for free online as text, and as an audio podcast.

"At the Museum of Holographic Art," Daily Science Fiction, June 23, 2016.

2015

"A Veil of Leaves," Cross Genres, Issue #35.

"Genie From the Gym," Daily Science Fiction, October 14, 2015. Reprinted as a free podcast at Far Fetched Fables.

"Poet-Scholars of the Necropolis," Podcastle, Episode 374. Available for free online as a podcast. Reprinted in Myriad Lands Volume 2: Beyond the Edge.

"Necromancer, 79th Infantry Division," Daily Science Fiction, June 17, 2015.

2014

"A Dragon's Doula," Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue #42. Available for free.

"Golden Chaos," Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue # 40. Available for free. Reprinted at Podcastle, Episode 422. Listen for free here.

"Waterlilies," Daily Science Fiction. April 21, 2014.

"Wishing Hard Enough," Leading Edge Magazine, Issue #65. February 2014.

2013

"Bricks and Sunlight," Suddenly Lost in Words, Vol. 3. Available on Amazon. Reprinted by Cast of Wonders in audio, free to listen.

"Raspberry Pudding," Abyss & Apex, Issue #46. Available for free.

"The Temple's Posthole," Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue #32. Available for free. Winner of an IGMS Reader's Choice Award, and included on the Tangent Online Recommended Reading List. Reprinted by Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. Reprinted in Lost Atlantis Short Stories from Flametree Studio.

2012

"Under Warranty," Cucurbital 3, Paper Golem. Edited by Lawrence M. Schoen.

"Blank Faces," Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, Issue #28. Available for free. 

"Indigestion," The Gruff Variations, Writing for Charity Anthology, Vol. 1. Edited by Eric James Stone. March 16, 2012.

2011

"Canvas," Daily Science Fiction, Oct 5, 2011.

"Cryonic Sushi," Leading Edge Magazine, Issue #60. January 2011.

Nonfiction:

"Making Soft Magic Systems Work," SFWA. January 31, 2023. Available for free.