Fiction 2025

This is the page for publications in 2025. If you need more distraction, you can find last years’ fiction here, and even more from before that here.

Short Fiction

  • 25 peppercorns (forthcoming). Mythaxis
  • With nothing left (reprint, forthcoming). Small Wonders
  • Spirit Alembic Keeper (forthcoming). Uncharted Magazine
  • Instructions for rewilding the wasteland (2025). Radon Journal
    • Join the forest, do your time
    • CW: body horror, incarceration
    • Amazing review in Myna Chang’s June 2025 Flash Roundup
  • Updated explainer: Composting during the zombie apocalypse (2025). Roi Fainéant
    • Keep your garden soil full of nutrients whilst being climate friendly and showing care to the corpses of those infected.
    • CW: body parts, death
  • Bone-eater Earth (2025). Uncharted Magazine
    • If we don’t get our act together, Mother Earth is gonna make some big decisions for us. So, hey, maybe degrowth would be easier?
    • CW: amputation, rude language, techbros
  • Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3] (2025). Brave New Weird (originally in Nature: Futures)
    • Information must be disseminated! Log in to help keep the information on this fungal outbreak up to date.
  • In the style of banshees keening (2025). The Forge Literary Magazine
    • In a busy hospital, how important are you?
  • Take a PASTWORLD trip to the Last Polar Ice Cap (2025). Augur Magazine, 2024 flash fiction contest winner.
    • Keep your eyes on the screen for a bonus!
  • Monsters in the tenement (Feb 2025). Foofaraw
    • Cozy horror where some slugmonsters play hide and seek. High quality literature.
  • Translucent katabasis (Feb 2025, Issue 44). Factor Four Magazine
    • A truly sad story. But tea might help.
    • CW: maternal death, child death, suicide
  • After boom (Jan 2025). Nature:Futures
    • Post-apocalyptic expansion. About as depressing as you’d expect.
    • Lovely review in Myna Chang’s Feb 2025 Flash Roundup

Microfiction

  • Announcement (forthcoming). Cosmic Horror Monthly
  • Tell me about your mother (forthcoming). Crab Tales Magazine
  • Plenty to eat (2025). ScribesMicro
  • Perfectly down (2025). Friday Flash Fiction

Long Fiction

  • Community, built (forthcoming). Atthis Arts

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