Published in Lightspeed.

A fantasy story about a dead, magic artist who begins to haunt the gallery hosting his posthumous work. Told in gallery descriptions.

Published in Protocolized Magazine.

1st place winner of the Ghosts in Machines competition.

A sci-fi story. If our digital selves come to outlive us, how do they find peace? When a relative passes away, our protagonist begins to receive messages from the networked afterlife. They must find a tender way to respond.

Published in The Adroit Journal.

A literary horror story. A small family honours their dead mother and wife by burning a giant wooden bird in effigy. A young boy navigates life while haunted by grief, guilt, and the ghost of his pet bird that died the same day his mother did.

Published in Diabolical Plots. Recommended by Reactor Magazine

A science fiction love story. About love, loss, and the emptiness of certain technological solutions to grief. Featuring AI, Nietzsche, and stroads.

Published in Asimov Press.

In 2060, bioartist Maxwell Ardeen was diagnosed with an undisclosed terminal illness. The threat of death produced the most intense, prolific, and celebrated era of this late artist's career.

Published in Protocolized.

3 flash fiction blockchain horror stories.

Published in Apex Magazine.

2023 Eugie Award Finalist.

A science fiction story about grief, loss, and how we understand and move through time.

Selected for inclusion in Afterlives 2025: The Years Best Death Fiction

Published in Not One of Us.

A short story about a soul who has taken up the mantle of Charon, replaced his boat with a train, and now finds himself at the end of the universe with no souls left to ferry.

Published in Protocolized Magazine.

A science fiction story. In Earth-6’s immersive VR megastructures, time stretches into centuries, and death has been engineered out of sight and mind. When thirty-three avatars simultaneously die, leaving a lone child behind, a digital undertaker is faced with a trauma that breaks his current protocols. A millennia-old cult’s planned extinction leads him to rediscover what humanity once knew: grief is not a glitch, but a rite.

Published in Weird Horror.

A weird, body-horror short story about skin, loss, and the dripping viscera of the thoughts we keep inside ourselves

1st place winner of the Protocolized Magazine Terminological Twists Competition.

In a gated community governed by strict noise quotas, a grieving couple struggles to hold their relationship together in near-silence. When Saar begins sneaking out to an underground punk venue to scream away her pain, her partner fears she’s risking everything.

Published in The Daily Tomorrow

A science fiction short story retelling the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. A bard on a generation ship falls in love with the craft’s AI system. When the AI goes missing, Orpheus must travel in the heart of chaos itself to rescue her, whether it kills him or not.

Published in Cold Signal.

A sci-fi retelling of the story of Isaac and Abraham. A couple must pass a final test to access their corporate-virtual afterlife. Can they do the unthinkable?

Published in Apex Magazine.

A weird story about sculptures made from the bones and bits found in owl pellets, a failing marriage, and claiming one’s place through art and action.

Published by Farthest Stars Publishing.

A sci-fi novelette. Near the blazing heart of the sun, Thrum and Ebb maintain a solar accelerator that pushes the boundaries of science—and their own sanity. When strange anomalies appear, their routine mission spirals into a deadly mystery. The truth waits on the other side—if he survives long enough to reach it.

Published in Phano Magazine.

A science-fiction story about illness, love, and the discovery of extraterrestrial life.

Published in The Ekphrastic Review.

Four interconnected literary/speculative flash fictions inspired by Arthur Dove’s painting, Sunrise, III. Katherine Dreier prepares to deliver a lecture on art while meditating on pain; mountain lions surround a San Jose ranch; a musician searches for melody, and a distant future human contemplates the end of the solar system.

Published in trampset.

A literary short story about a teen’s communion with a formaldehyde-preserved shark in the NYC Met. About memory and living life on your own terms.

Published in Bleating Things.

A literary short story about grief, loss, and changing lives. Told through a gallery description and footnotes.

Published in House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature, Volume 4.

A science fiction story about AI, identity, claiming your place in the world, and the love of parents.

Published in Weird Horror Magazine Issue 7

A horror story about a feral child kidnapped by an artist and forced to create paintings that make the artist famous. Told through numerous gallery plaque descriptions.

Published in Fusion Fragment. A Locus Magazine recommended story.

A science fiction story about the end of the world (via sound wave), change, friendship, transformation, and existential joy.

Published in Tales from Fiddler’s Green 2: Midnight Flowers.

An experimental poetic story about love, fairy tales, and beginnings.

Published in Epic Echoes.

A fantasy/weird west story about an undead outlaw, a revolutionary, and a former spy who find themselves dead and without a coin with which to pay Charon. Join them as they try to steal their way across the River Styx.

Published in Does it Have Pockets

A literary fiction story told through 5 art plaque descriptions that follow an artist’s life, fears, loves, and journey. About queerness, discovery, truths we keep hidden, and the way art can excavate it all.

Published in Cosmorama.

A short science fiction love story about loving in present tense, losing someone, and a love that stretches galaxies.

Published in Tumbled Tales.

A science fantasy genre-bender about a group of witches living off the side of a post-apocalyptic skyscraper, trying to contact the Voyager satellite and return its spell to Earth.

Published in Dark Recesses

A dark fantasy story about being misunderstood, fungi, and revenge.

Published in The Art of Being Human, a FableCroft anthology.

A fantasy story about a young, queer boy, in a world where homes are grown from the bones of your loved one.

Published in The Vanishing Point.

A science fiction story about generational debt, pain, and what we owe to the ones we love.

Published in Crow and Cross Keys.

A slipstream story about running away from home, becoming feral, and how families heal (or don’t) from loss.

Published in Dark Void Magazine.

A science fiction horror story about memories, digestion, and who we are without our past.

Published in Fusion Fragment.

A science fiction/fantasy story about magic, generational knowledge, and deep space travel.

Published in Metaphorosis.

A science fiction story about quantum entanglement, labor, parenthood and asteroid mining.

Published in Write Ahead/The Future Looms.

A science fiction story about nanobots, a perma-flooded city, our bodies under capitalism, and guilt.

Published in Short Editions. Jury Finalist.

A fairy tale about a feral princess locked in a tower, how she survives, and what it means to be free.

Published in matchbook.

A literary flash fiction. A high-school wrestler has a heart-attack in the middle of a match and sees heaven.

Published in Maudlin House.

A flash fiction story about a gambler, $100,000 in the hole, who gets a final chance from a mysterious stranger to win it all back.

Published in hex literary.

A weird horror tale about, well, a visit from a sentient slime mold specialist about that pesky mold you think may be growing in your bathroom.

Nominated for Best of the Net.

Published in Flash Fiction Online.

A weird horror flash fiction about a dead whale that washes ashore, the children of a small beach town's obsession with it, and a father's struggle to understand his children enough to love them.

Published in Saros.

A science fiction story about a robotic mind contemplating gender, told through coding statements.

Published in Does it Have Pockets.

A literary flash fiction story, told in the form of a gallery description. A piece of geosculpture in the desert of the American Southwest connects one man 10 years apart, reflecting on loss, family, and becoming.

Published in trampset.

Best Small Fictions nominee.

A literary flash fiction about small towns, growing up, and losing the people who mean the most to you.

Published in Paranoid Tree.

Best Microfiction nominee.

A flash fiction about loving with precision and specificity through every stage of a life.

Published in manywor(l)ds.

Nominated for Orison Best Spiritual Literature Award

A prose poem/flash fiction about religion, art, and finding meaning in the complex, messy lived-in world.

Published in Y2K Quarterly.

A prose poem ode to the GameCube loading screen and tweenage misery,

Pushcart Prize nominee.

Rhysling Award nominee.

Published in Cream Scene Carnival, Wild West issue.

A voicey poem about love, self-abnegation, the sweat-filled embrace of the desert, and how to love both yourself and the world, even when they hurt you.

Pushcart prize nominee.

Best Small Fictions nominee.

Published in The Disappointed Housewife.

A literary flash fiction story about art and obsession told through the form of a galley description.

Published in manywor(l)ds

A literary story/prose poem about art, where we find inspiration, and how to say no to death.

Published in The Marrow.

A literary/horror flash fiction about art, losing yourself, and the sculpture that resides at the base of all our spines.

A literary body horror story told in the form of a gallery description about nascent relationships, and what we give to and take from others.

Published in body fluids, issue 03 - suspended.

A retelling of the Cassiopeia and Andromeda myth about love, loss, motherhood, and the callousness of kings.

Published in Apparition Literary Magazine. Winner of the April 2022 Flash Fiction Challenge.

A science fiction story about a mining robot, sharing grief, and being more than the sum of your parts. An ekphratic story based on an image by artist Toshiko Okanoue.

Published in Etherea Magazine.

A science fantasy story about a young girl finishing her father’s mission to find the edge of the universe, and how to find your own purpose.

Published in MetaStellar. Included in Best of MetaStellar Year One.

A science fiction flash fiction piece about selling experiences, failed MMA careers, and death.

Published in The Cackling Kettle issue 3.

A flash fiction about mourning, mothers, witchcraft, and the magic we leave behind.

Published in Corvid Queen.

A fairy tale about mourning, small town politics, gender, and arachnids.

A science-fiction story about AR overlays designed to protect people from one another’s worst instincts. When a disaffected buisnessman discovers the overlay protocols have been hiding huge parts of his city from him, he endeavours to “prove the system wrong” by hacking it and exploring those forbidden places.

Forthcoming from Protocolized Magazine.

A science fiction story. A device maker, Tia, makes custom retinal implants, and receives a request to make one that enables the wearer to summon projections of their deceased loved ones. The piece follows both the technical challenges this poses and how she and her team solve those problems, paired with concerns over whether she is building a perseverance machine, rather than a mourning tool.

Forthcoming in Asimov Press

A sci-fi story about a “Spotify wrapped”-style summary of the 18,000,000 minutes one man filled with regrets has spent inside a Remembrance Machine reliving real and edited memories.

Forthcoming in Nature Futures

A story about a monster slowing stealing someone’s words from them, one at a time.

Forthcoming in Saros.