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.

25 peppercorns (forthcoming). Mythaxis
Instructions for rewilding the wasteland (forthcoming). Radon Journal
With nothing left (reprint, forthcoming). Small Wonders
Updated explainer: Composting during the zombie apocalypse (forthcoming). Roi Fainéant
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)
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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.
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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.