Short Fiction

Once Abandoned

in Escape Pod

When one of his working pigeons goes missing, dedicated pigeoneer Sappel sets out to find the poor bird and discovers much more than he bargained for.

Published January 2025 in audio format in Episode 974 of Escape Pod

Cover image for Cryptid Carols to Sing in the Dark. The title is bordered by bigfoots and evergreen trees. — Cover by Rue Sparks

Oh Christmas LÄmP

in Cryptid Carols to Sing in the Dark

Mothman’s obsession with lamps can get him into trouble, especially around Christmas time. Cryptid Carols to Sing in the Dark is a collection of poetry about cryptids in all their fluttery, slithery, and slimy glory.

Published October 2024 by Memento Vivere Press

The cover of the Inter Librarian Loan anthology. People face away from the viewer, holograms projected in front of them. In the background, a large spaceship hovers. — Cover art: Tithi Luadthong

The Anamatra (DIVERGENT) Only A Memory

in Inter Librarian Loan Vol. 1

The Librarian travels back in time to fix a mistake. This anthology is a collection of the multi-dimensional Librarian’s adventures - divergent from their original forms in other Librarian collections. The multiverse allows infinite possibilities, even for a stories that have already been written…

Published September 2024 by Air and Nothingness Press

The cover of The Librarian anthology. A person faces away, looking at a monument floating in the sky. — Cover art: Tithi Luadthong

Stolen History

in The Librarian Anthology

The Librarian discovers a people whose history, and ability to read, have been taken from them. This anthology is a collection of the Librarian’s adventures through the multiverse with their trusty Satchel, solving problems and paying people’s library fines.

Published December 2022 by Air and Nothingness Press

The cover for City in a Wild Garden. An ink print of pomegranates in front of a brick wall.

For Dirt is Mostly Mushrooms

in City in a Wild Garden

A woman wakes to find her carefully-tended mushrooms stolen… but by what? City in a Wild Garden is a collection of very short stories of future cities and the gardens that make them wild.

Published in December 2021 by TNOC

Cover for Analog's Nov/Dec 2020 issue. A person floats in a space ship with a pair of catlike aliens. — Cover art: Victoria Green

Winter’s Spring

in Analog Science Fiction Magazine

Surviving on a frozen planet is harder than anyone imagined. Personalities clash as a crew of scientists struggles to establish a viable human settlement.

Published in the November/December 2020 issue of Analog

The cover of Postcards from the Void. A ghostly skull floats above an escalator in an abandoned shopping mall.

Ullassee Gulch, AL

in Postcards from the Void

The forests of central Alabama hold a mysterious allure… and something more sinister. Postcards from the Void is a collection of 25 tales of forgotten, shunned places that exist only in our nightmares.

Published fall 2018 by Darkwater Syndicate (now Darkwater Media Group)

The cover of 200 CCs: Year One. Text on yellowed, tattered paper is superimposed over the image of a nebula.

Departure

in 200 CCs: Year One

An Emperor is forced to leave his dying planet. 200 CCs is an anthology of “microfiction” — stories told in just 200 words.

Published online in 2016 by Paul A. Hamilton and collected into a print anthology in 2017.