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

  • 10207 (Dec 2025). Daikaijuzine
    • An oldie, but a goodie. Originally in Elegant Literature (reprinted in a bunch of other places, too).
    • Probably nothing bad happens after you donate your body to science, right?
  • Marked Unread (Dec 2025, reprint). Metastellar
    • Originally in Extrasensory Overload: An anthology of speculative excess
    • When it’s all too much, and then it gets worse
  • 25 peppercorns (Sept 2025). Mythaxis Magazine
    • Everything, ash.
    • CW: Intergenerational trauma, war, and genocide. Also, hope.
    • Full explanation and content warnings can be found here.
    • Listed on the Bram Stoker eligible works reading list, because apparently this is a horror story.
  • Spirit alembic keeper (Sept 2025). Uncharted Magazine
    • August keeps the spirits, war takes the bodies.
    • CW: war, oppression, depression
  • Herself anodyne (June 2025). Northern Gravy
    • No, you decide your future
    • Ft. fate, capitalism, quiet rage, and some really excellent words
  • Instructions for rewilding the wasteland (June 2025). Radon Journal
  • Bone-eater Earth (May 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…
  • With nothing left (2025 reprint, originally in Mythaxis Magazine). Small Wonders
    • A gentle, platonic love story involving a caregiver, their person, and some unauthorised fun.
  • 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
  • Candidate 1143172 cover letter: Junior pot scrubber (2025 reprint, originally in Nature:Futures). Manawaker Studio
    • Learn new skills! Meet new lifeforms! See the universe! Sign up to work on intergalactic spaceships today.
  • 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
    • Keep your eyes on the screen for a bonus!
    • 2024 flash fiction contest winner
  • 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

  • Reconnaissance (co-written with Christian Cameron). Grimdark Magazine
    • Episode 1 (issue 44). A new world, some weird plants.
    • Episode 2 (forthcoming, issue 45).

Editing

  • FamPunk special edition, guest editor (November, 2025). Flash Fiction Online
    • An issue where we subvert some of the assumptions built into sci-fi and fantasy, the need to be expansive and overblown.
    • Go small and go home: The editorial.
    • The issue is freely available, but if you want to buy a copy to support FFO, you can do that here.