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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Emmie Christie 1/1/25 Emmie Christie 1/1/25

“Investigating a Series of Stubbings” in Once Upon a Crocodile

Victim One: 56-year-old male Gary Beary. Balding, supervisor. Assaulted with a desk on the fourth floor of the insurance building on 10th street.

Emmie Christie 7/5/24 Emmie Christie 7/5/24

“Texts My Panic Attack Sent Me” in Pink Hydra

Panic Attack: WAKE UP THERE’S A BEAR

Me: what no there’s not

Panic Attack: BEARS EVERYWHERE

Emmie Christie 4/14/23 Emmie Christie 4/14/23

“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.

Emmie Christie 7/31/22 Emmie Christie 7/31/22

“Arm Warmers for the Elder God, Quantity: 66” in Andromeda Spaceways

My mind won’t stop once I lie supine. A thousand reminders prick through from my subconscious—how could I forget the trash full of my shed skin?

Emmie Christie 12/27/21 Emmie Christie 12/27/21

“Exercising Demons” in Sci-Fi Lampoon

The woman held her four demons back, leashed according to the law. “No, no, I meant exercise, m’dear! My darlings are quite tame, thank you.”

Emmie Christie 2/21/21 Emmie Christie 2/21/21

“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.