
Short Fiction & Poetry
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Browse my portfolio of over 100 pieces of short fiction and poetry, published in various magazines, anthologies, and journals!
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“Someone Call Shadow Control!” reprint in Androids & Dragons
The exterminators wove their bags from the vodka strength of the noonday sun, killing the shadows straight off when they stuffed them in the bags. But Culver wove his bags from the strands of dawn, from when the first few beams trailed across the fields, not too bright, but just bright enough that they couldn’t slip through the stitches.
“The Finch and the Fir Tree” in Crow & Cross Keys
She wondered if she could transform into a bear, or an ant underground, something that could burrow into the depths of the soil or rock and stay there for months in the winter, unconcerned with the cold or with cages.
“The Way the Light Tangles” in Zooscape
When Jan reached four years into sixty, his daughter and her son flew off into the glorious first exploration past the Milky Way to somewhere called Z-1.
“Fox-Fires” in Small Wonders
In the autumn, we trek /
Into the Red Grove /
Where the little fox-fires grow /
“Unacknowledged Cows” in Bodyfluids Lit
We point at a field of cows as we pass and say “Cows,” for as everyone knows, the bovine population has a deal with all travelers.
“Purr Therapy” in Felis Futura
The purring rumbles throughout the cathedral room. It is loud, but not the horrible, bright kind of loud that bars or doctor’s offices have. This is a cozy loud.
“The Squirrelherd and the Sound” in Zooscape
Catherine didn’t much care for her job. It wasn’t that the squirrels gave her any lip. They had dental plans, 401Ks, and the whole caboodle after all. The Sound, though, that gave her the shudders.
“Snigglesnaffed” in Intrinsick
Evelyn was on the way to her big meeting with the department heads, but the box of kittens on the side of the road read ‘take what you can’ and what was a middle-aged woman to do? Leave them?
Of course the freaking not.