Fiction

Annotated Setlist of the Mikaela Cole Jazz Quintet

Clarkesworld, December 2019

Escape Pod, May 2021

• Jazz musicians on a generation ship
• Tangent Recommended Reading List for 2019
• Tor.com Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction for December 2019

A Portal Fantasy for Grown-ups

Gamut, August 2024

• There’s a portal in your walk-in closet
• But it’s nothing like the portals you dreamt about as a child …

A Test of Trouble

Luna Station Quarterly, March 2021 (Issue 45)

• The first line gives some sense of what this one is about: “When the baby is nine weeks old, Bree begins to suspect she is a time machine”
• content warning for the depiction of domestic violence

Bedtime Snacks for Baby

Flash Fiction Online, May 2019

• A story about parenting a child with unusual appetites
• Three stars on Tangent Recommended Reading List for 2019

Calling on Behalf of the Dark Lord

Translunar Travelers Lounge, February 2020

• So you’ve taken a job at a call centre shilling for the Dark Lord …

Ephemera

Flash Fiction Online, November 2019

• What if your belongings had to choose between you and your ex?

Katabasis

Augur Magazine, Issue 2.3, December 2019

The Overcast, September 2021

• Longlisted for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic

The Amphisbaena in the Wild

The Pink Hydra, Issue 1-3, September 2024

• why are the heads on these two-headed mythological creatures in conflict?
• told in the form of a transcript from a fictional podcast
• also featuring: the difficulty of balancing work with parenting, assumptions being made about the competence of women in science, and a podcast host who’s a little too confident in his understanding of the events he’s reporting on!

The Bear Wife

Metaphorosis Magazine, February 2019

Metaphorosis: Best of 2019

• A contemporary take on the classic animal bride story

The Crow Bridge

Luna Station Quarterly, September 2024

• the power of storytelling to keep dreams alive, and a bridge that no-one can cross – or can they?