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

  • With nothing left (reprint, forthcoming). Small Wonders
  • Third Planet Government Agrees Historic Ban on Floppy Meat Production (forthcoming). Foofaraw
  • 25 peppercorns (2025). Mythaxis
    • Everything, ash.
    • Intergenerational trauma, war, and genocide. Also, hope.
    • Full explanation and content warnings can be found here.
  • Spirit alembic keeper (2025). Uncharted Magazine
    • August keeps the spirits, war takes the bodies.
    • CW: war, oppression, depression
  • Herself anodyne (2025). Northern Gravy
    • You decide your future
    • Ft. fate, capitalism, quiet rage, and some really good words
  • Instructions for rewilding the wasteland (2025). Radon Journal
  • 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
  • Join with me tomorrow (2025 reprint, originally in Utopia Magazine). After The Storm Magazine
    • Only one apocalypse makes this one of my more less dire stories…
  • Welcome. Don’t be afraid. (2025 reprint, originally in Triangulation Anthology: Hospitium). Lorelei Signal.
    • After death, before forever, relax. Take a moment. Have a cup of tea.
  • 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
  • Plastic-eating fungus caused doomsday[2][3] (2025 reprint, originally in Nature: Futures). Brave New Weird
    • 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

Longer Fiction

  • Ex Partum (forthcoming). Atthis Arts
  • Reconnaissance (co-written with Christian Cameron, forthcoming). Grimdark Magazine

Editing