Blue Incarnations
My queer young adult thriller novel about a futuristic society where you can be punished for crimes committed in a past life, and who to turn to when you can't even trust your own memories…
Mighty: An Anthology Of Disabled Superheroes
In these 14 stories by disabled authors, edited by myself and Emily Gillespie, superheroes with all sorts of disabilities battle evil and ableist clichés.
Available here from Renaissance Press!
Jack Jetstark's Intergalactic FreakShow
My debut novel about the performers of an intergalactic freakshow, who gain superpowers when they hear a certain song, and who might be the universe's last hope at ending a war
My debut novel about the performers of an intergalactic freakshow, who gain superpowers when they hear a certain song, and who might be the universe's last hope at ending a war
Available soon
Love & Bubbles
An anthology of queer romance under the sea, which I co-edited with Jaylee James!
In my story, Shallows, two trainers fall for each other as they scheme to rescue the animals from a dolphinarium... but one of them is a dolphin shapeshifter from Brazilian myth, and the other is about to find out!
Available in paperback and digital!
Anachronism
My debut novella! A time traveler and the future president on a roadtrip to save the world. More information here. Available in paperback and ebook from Kristell Ink, an imprint of Grimbold Books.
Space Opera Libretti: Modern Comedic Space Opera With Arias
An anthology of musical-themed science fiction I co-edited with Brian McNett. Twenty stories, poems, and even an opera feature in this comedic collection.
In addition to being an editor and designing the interior graphics, I also have a story in the book. Jukebox Ga Ga features two alien siblings who are forced to get along — and sing along — when their space ship is attacked by possibly extinct bears made of black holes. Plenty of references to Queen songs abound.
Space Opera Libretti is available in paperback and digital. And it's very good and we put a lot of work into it so please purchase it. This is how you advertise books, yes?
Free online
Queerano de Bergerac
Love & Bubbles
An anthology of queer romance under the sea, which I co-edited with Jaylee James!
In my story, Shallows, two trainers fall for each other as they scheme to rescue the animals from a dolphinarium... but one of them is a dolphin shapeshifter from Brazilian myth, and the other is about to find out!
Available in paperback and digital!
Anachronism
My debut novella! A time traveler and the future president on a roadtrip to save the world. More information here. Available in paperback and ebook from Kristell Ink, an imprint of Grimbold Books.
Space Opera Libretti: Modern Comedic Space Opera With Arias
An anthology of musical-themed science fiction I co-edited with Brian McNett. Twenty stories, poems, and even an opera feature in this comedic collection.
In addition to being an editor and designing the interior graphics, I also have a story in the book. Jukebox Ga Ga features two alien siblings who are forced to get along — and sing along — when their space ship is attacked by possibly extinct bears made of black holes. Plenty of references to Queen songs abound.
Space Opera Libretti is available in paperback and digital. And it's very good and we put a lot of work into it so please purchase it. This is how you advertise books, yes?
Free online
The Sound Of Silence
An autistic child tries to hide the fact that she is apparently the only person who can't communicate telepathically, for fear the gods (aliens?) will punish her.
Available from Bourbon Penn!
Alone
A twisty psychological horror about a man hunting a mysterious and murderous life form on a spaceship.
Available for free on Trembling With Fear!
The Spirit Of The Narcissus
A disabled person deals with their body image and internalized ableism… oh yeah, and some sort of weird water spirit in the swimming pool of a spaceship.
Knead
A gourmet chef working at a children's pizza parlor is haunted by his past in this story available free from 2000 Word Terrors!
Part Of Her World
When she leaves her accessible space station to help a pretty astronaut in trouble, a disabled woman must deal with increased gravity—and her own internalized ableism.
Available for free at Breath and Shadow!
Body by Franz Kafka
A body horror story about gender dysphoria and transphobia, told through the Twilight Zone lens of pod people, mass hysteria, and butterflies that aren't quite right.
Available online for free in Mirror Dance!
Heartbeat
The universe is alive, and its next heartbeat is going to end the world.
Available for free in The Cosmic And The Void!
No Collision
A recent graduate of Space Force Academy goes on a mission to cover up a collision that absolutely did not happen. Nope. There was no collision. But what she and her crew find instead is… not good for the 'Merican Commander. This political satire was originally published in in Shout: An Anthology Of Resistance Poetry And Short Fiction, which was published by Not A Pipe Press and is now available on my blog.
A recent graduate of Space Force Academy goes on a mission to cover up a collision that absolutely did not happen. Nope. There was no collision. But what she and her crew find instead is… not good for the 'Merican Commander. This political satire was originally published in in Shout: An Anthology Of Resistance Poetry And Short Fiction, which was published by Not A Pipe Press and is now available on my blog.
Don't Look Down
A little autistic girl runs away into the sky, saves an atmospheric whale, and finds her place back home on Earth.
All I Want For Christmas Is UFO
When he falls off her roof and hits his head on Christmas Eve, a little girl tries to remind Santa about the magic of Christmas. Only problem is, he’s not Santa. He’s an alien who’s been sent to destroy Earth.
If That Cowbird Don't Sing
When her abusive mother pushes her too far, a young, nonverbal autistic girl unlocks the magic hiding inside her.
Available in Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine!
The Care Home
A disabled woman fights her increasingly manipulative smart home for control of her life.
Available online and in print at Dark Matter Magazine!
The Twinkle Of A Fading Star
In which I take a TS Eliot poem a little too literally, and add transgender scarecrows. Content warning for death and misgendering.
Available in the June 2022 issue of The Quiet Ones!
How Do You Do, Fellow Chosen Ones?
What’s a witch to do when she accidentally gives herself the powers she was supposed to bestow on the Chosen One? Dress up as a teenage boy and pretend to be the Chosen One, obviously.
Available to read or listen to at Tall Tale TV!
Maiasaura Deifaeria
65 million years later, one fairy godmother triceratops comes to term with her grief while trying to finally grant her last hatchling's wish.
Originally published in Luna Station Quarterly, now available on my blog
*Darken The Corners Of My Mind
A person born without the ability to form memories steals them from everyone they touch, often with disastrous consequences.
Available for free online at The Arcanist!
An eloquent disaster lesbian waxes poetic about her beloved while simultaneously helping her companion-in-arms woo said beloved… in… SPAAAACE!
Available online, in digital, and in paperback in the first volume of Queer Blades!
Collaborative Giftmas 2021 Story
To raise money for the Edmonton Food Bank, Rhonda Parrish gathered up some friends and we wrote a Christmas story.
Read my contribution here, and be sure to follow the links to read the rest of it.
Santa Claws is Comin’ to Town
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Absolutely. But is it a queer Hallmark Channel-esque romance in which the main character is too busy working in the big city and doesn't have time for Christmas, love, or the giant cat from Icelandic mythology that attacks kids Christmas movie? Nope. So I had to fix that.
Keys To The Murder Castle
Frankenstein, Bluebeard, and historical serial killers inspired this sapphic steampunk tale about grief, during the right(ish) thing, and not letting your dark past keep you from a brighter future.
Available online at HyphenPunk!
*Epicenter
My dorky love letter to the monster movies I grew up with, in which an armchair pseudoscientist battles a corrupt mining corporation, saves an earthquake monster, and looks good doing it.
Available at Hexagon!
The Falling Marionette
In the future, there will be new and wonderful technology to assist disabled people in living normal, independent lives. But when Cass receives an innovative exoskeleton to counteract the weakness caused by her spinal muscular atrophy, she soon learns it isn't her body preventing her from feeling normal. It's society.
Originally published in Expanded Horizons and reprinted in (Dis)ability, though I've since noticed some unintended ableism in the piece and will not be linking to those publications. It is now available in Disabled Voices anthology, in a very edited and hopefully improved version, as well as on my blog.
In the future, there will be new and wonderful technology to assist disabled people in living normal, independent lives. But when Cass receives an innovative exoskeleton to counteract the weakness caused by her spinal muscular atrophy, she soon learns it isn't her body preventing her from feeling normal. It's society.
Originally published in Expanded Horizons and reprinted in (Dis)ability, though I've since noticed some unintended ableism in the piece and will not be linking to those publications. It is now available in Disabled Voices anthology, in a very edited and hopefully improved version, as well as on my blog.
The Good Girl
A story about finding who you're supposed to be, and mourning the person you thought you were. Also it's about a transgender vampire.
Originally published by Luna Station Quarterly, now available on my blog
Enough
Frankenstein's second monster tries to find her purpose by finishing the life's work of one of the people whose limbs she is made of. But the world sees her as less than because she's disabled. Can she ever be good enough?
Available in paperback and digital in We Shall Be Monsters and available for free on my blog.
Frankenstein's second monster tries to find her purpose by finishing the life's work of one of the people whose limbs she is made of. But the world sees her as less than because she's disabled. Can she ever be good enough?
Available in paperback and digital in We Shall Be Monsters and available for free on my blog.
Blame The Monster
An homage to The Twilight Zone‘s use of metaphor to tell the kinds of stories society doesn’t always want to hear, Blame The Monster turns victim blaming and assault into a literal monster. Deals with victim blaming, sexual assault metaphorically disguised as being attacked by something with teeth and claws, blood, and death. Available in digital in All Worlds Wayfarer and on my blog.
Protein
A strange little story about life and death, an empty spaceship, and a forgotten turkey sandwich.
Listen to it on Manawaker Studio’s Flash Fiction Podcast, find it on Spotify, or read it on my blog.
The Wolf Mother
A story about destiny, heroes, and giant genetically engineered time traveling wolves with two mouths. So, you know. The usual.
Available in paperback and digital in Under the Full Moon's Light
Also available on my blog.
Available in paperback and digital in Under the Full Moon's Light
Also available on my blog.
GAY JAWS
What if Jaws was a love story between Quint and the shark and they were lesbians and sometimes they do a little murder? GAY JAWS (always in uppercase) is available for free on my blog.
*The Steel Magnolia Metaphor
A young autistic girl tries to invent a robot tree to keep the mosquitoes away from her mama who’s going through cancer treatments, but sometimes there are problems even robot trees can't solve. Content warnings for cancer and death of a parent, non-graphic death of insects.
Available to read or listen to at Escape Pod!
*Don Queerxote
In a solarpunk future, a romantic fanfiction loving girl who has never read Don Quixote battles the windmill company to save some owls and impress a pretty girl who doesn't know she exists but is so clearly in love with her anyway. Except she might be wrong about that last part.
*Pushcart nominated!
Ice
She's just a normal girl, except sometimes she explodes and becomes part of the rain cycle.
Ice is available for free at Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine. Also available in the best of Penumbric!
Mari Lwyd
Like a festive version of A Quiet Place. Don't make a sound, or the Mari Lwyd will get you.
Available in paperback and ebook in Neon Druid, an anthology of Celtic urban fantasy.
Like a festive version of A Quiet Place. Don't make a sound, or the Mari Lwyd will get you.
Available in paperback and ebook in Neon Druid, an anthology of Celtic urban fantasy.
Also available for free on my blog.
The Courtship Dance
To impress a pretty guy, an 80s-obsessed girl decides the best course of action is to make a ton of Dirty Dancing references while learning to dance from a spider named Anita. Oh, and it's set in space, did I mention that?
Available in paperback and digital in The Tangled Web! (Cover shows a stylized image of a spider. My story should not be triggering to arachnophobes but other stories in the book are scary.)
Also available for free on my blog! Available in paperback and digital in The Tangled Web! (Cover shows a stylized image of a spider. My story should not be triggering to arachnophobes but other stories in the book are scary.)
Another Unnecessary Reimagining of A Christmas Carol (Except This One’s Queer)
Pretty much exactly what it sounds like. This very short, very queer Christmas tale is one of 24 flash fiction stories available in Gay Apparel, a digital anthology you get when you donate to the authors’ charity of choice. Mine is Autistic Self Advocacy Network. Just send me proof of a donation of any size, and I will send you a digital copy of the anthology.
Pretty much exactly what it sounds like. This very short, very queer Christmas tale is one of 24 flash fiction stories available in Gay Apparel, a digital anthology you get when you donate to the authors’ charity of choice. Mine is Autistic Self Advocacy Network. Just send me proof of a donation of any size, and I will send you a digital copy of the anthology.
My story is available for free on my blog, but the entire anthology really is delightful and I encourage you to read it if you can.
Harvest
A woman is trapped living the same day over and over. Like a scary Groundhog Day, and I can't say more without spoiling the end.
Originally published in Fall into Fantasy 2018, Harvest is now available for free on my blog.
Make America Goblins Again
Fairies, political intrigue, hats that drink blood. This satirical story with an autistic protagonist is available exclusively on my blog.
Tell Me Half A Story
Genre savvy sisters Scheherazade their way through the apocalypse, figuring that since you can't die in the middle of your character arc, you should tell someone only half of a story before going out on a dangerous mission. Tell Me Half A Story is available to read online at Abyss & Apex!
Velocirapture
A giant asteroid is on a collision course with earth and the only ones who can stop it are teenage girlfriends Zairiss and Jax. But they will need to rebel against Zairiss’s father, who thinks they should go extinct, and of course the world is scheduled to end on prom night… oh, and did I mention they are talking dinosaurs?
The Unwelcome Destiny Of Virginia Monahan
A girl who can see the future struggles to find a way to escape the inescapable destiny she sees for herself. Based on the song Meet Virginia, the first line of this story are the first six words I wrote after escaping my abusive home. The Unwelcome Destiny Of Virginia Monahan is available for free at Breath & Shadow.
Depth and Meaning
A nonbinary artist dealing with depression struggles with finding the magic in art. Literally. She's an art mage, and her ability to paint rain might be all that's standing between her community and drought.
A nonbinary artist dealing with depression struggles with finding the magic in art. Literally. She's an art mage, and her ability to paint rain might be all that's standing between her community and drought.
Harvest
A woman is trapped living the same day over and over. Like a scary Groundhog Day, and I can't say more without spoiling the end.
Originally published in Fall into Fantasy 2018, Harvest is now available for free on my blog.
Of Clockwork Hearts and Metal Iguanodons
What’s a girl to do when the girl she fancies is upset by inaccurate dinosaur statues? Build a giant steam powered iguanodon, naturally. This story, full of autistic, disabled, and queer rep, is available to read or listen to at GlitterShip!
Pocketful of Souls
Amy is a demon. She is also quite possibly the most adorable little girl in the history of adorable little girls. Surely it can’t be her fault someone is buying up good souls and damning them to H-E-L-L for all of eternity? (Amy might be a demon, but that doesn’t mean she’s allowed to swear.)
Originally published in Luna Station Quarterly, now available on my blog
The Man Whose Left Arm Was a Cat
The story of a man who finds shades of off-white a bit too exciting for his taste and who suddenly finds his life turned upside down.
Free to read on Diabolical Plots. Also available in Diabolical Plots: Year Four, an ebook.
The Medusa Channel
A flash fiction horror piece about Medusa and modern technology.
Available to read for free on Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing's newsletter, and soon to be a podcast.
Spider
An #OwnVoices disability rep story about orphans who live in a junkyard and turn a wheelchair into a fighting robot. Originally published in Unfading Daydream, it was published online and in an anthology as part of Rhonda Parrish's Giftmas fundraiser.
Earth Music
Earth Music is one of my favorite stories I've written, and features a blind alien girl who travels to Earth and dreams in music. Will the humans want to sing with her?
Earth Music is available for free on Syntax & Salt!
Chrysalis
The world's oldest man dies, and his wife discovers his body has been enveloped in a chrysalis. When he starts to go through metamorphosis, she must confront the idea that he may not be dead at all...
Chrysalis is a sweet and funny story (and my grandmother's favorite), available to read or listen to as a free podcast on Cast of Wonders.
Do-overs
A bisexual dork uses time travel to "do-over" her embarrassing attempts at asking out a pretty girl. It's funny and adorable and features real-life genius and historical figure Ada Lovelace.
Originally published on Spectrum Lit, although that page doesn't seem to be active anymore, it is now available to read for free or listen to in podcast form at GlitterShip and in a paperback and digital anthology.
What’s a girl to do when the girl she fancies is upset by inaccurate dinosaur statues? Build a giant steam powered iguanodon, naturally. This story, full of autistic, disabled, and queer rep, is available to read or listen to at GlitterShip!
Pocketful of Souls
Amy is a demon. She is also quite possibly the most adorable little girl in the history of adorable little girls. Surely it can’t be her fault someone is buying up good souls and damning them to H-E-L-L for all of eternity? (Amy might be a demon, but that doesn’t mean she’s allowed to swear.)
Originally published in Luna Station Quarterly, now available on my blog
The Man Whose Left Arm Was a Cat
The story of a man who finds shades of off-white a bit too exciting for his taste and who suddenly finds his life turned upside down.
Free to read on Diabolical Plots. Also available in Diabolical Plots: Year Four, an ebook.
The Medusa Channel
A flash fiction horror piece about Medusa and modern technology.
Available to read for free on Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing's newsletter, and soon to be a podcast.
Spider
An #OwnVoices disability rep story about orphans who live in a junkyard and turn a wheelchair into a fighting robot. Originally published in Unfading Daydream, it was published online and in an anthology as part of Rhonda Parrish's Giftmas fundraiser.
Earth Music
Earth Music is one of my favorite stories I've written, and features a blind alien girl who travels to Earth and dreams in music. Will the humans want to sing with her?
Earth Music is available for free on Syntax & Salt!
Chrysalis
The world's oldest man dies, and his wife discovers his body has been enveloped in a chrysalis. When he starts to go through metamorphosis, she must confront the idea that he may not be dead at all...
Chrysalis is a sweet and funny story (and my grandmother's favorite), available to read or listen to as a free podcast on Cast of Wonders.
Do-overs
A bisexual dork uses time travel to "do-over" her embarrassing attempts at asking out a pretty girl. It's funny and adorable and features real-life genius and historical figure Ada Lovelace.
Originally published on Spectrum Lit, although that page doesn't seem to be active anymore, it is now available to read for free or listen to in podcast form at GlitterShip and in a paperback and digital anthology.
Also available in Spanish as Repeticiones at El Nombre del Mundo es Cuento!
The Good, the Bad, and the Utahraptor
Dinosaurs are appearing in the Old West... and Rosita is gonna catch one and ride it in a Wild West Show. Available to read or listen to free on Cast of Wonders!
One Last Ride on the Horse with Purple Roses
Eleanor, a grieving mother, takes her deceased daughter's imaginary friend to the park, because she isn't ready to say goodbye. Warning: I'm told this one's a tearjerker!
Originally published by Luna Station Quarterly, now available on my blog
Dear Vegas
Lady Luck's breakup letter to Las Vegas.
Originally published in Viva Las Vegas, and now available for free on my blog.
Artist Unknown
A mysterious painting and a little alien named Gustav (Okay, he doesn't actually have a name in the story, but I call him Gustav) feature in this story my mom calls "cute."
Originally published in the now out of print Children of the Sky, it is now available on my blog.
Take Meme to Your Leader
The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. UFO7 features all-new fiction from the genre's top voices, and me! My story involves aliens who talk in Internet memes.
The book is available in paperback and ebook!
My story is available for free on my blog!
The Good, the Bad, and the Utahraptor
Dinosaurs are appearing in the Old West... and Rosita is gonna catch one and ride it in a Wild West Show. Available to read or listen to free on Cast of Wonders!
One Last Ride on the Horse with Purple Roses
Eleanor, a grieving mother, takes her deceased daughter's imaginary friend to the park, because she isn't ready to say goodbye. Warning: I'm told this one's a tearjerker!
Originally published by Luna Station Quarterly, now available on my blog
Dear Vegas
Lady Luck's breakup letter to Las Vegas.
Originally published in Viva Las Vegas, and now available for free on my blog.
Artist Unknown
A mysterious painting and a little alien named Gustav (Okay, he doesn't actually have a name in the story, but I call him Gustav) feature in this story my mom calls "cute."
Originally published in the now out of print Children of the Sky, it is now available on my blog.
Take Meme to Your Leader
The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. UFO7 features all-new fiction from the genre's top voices, and me! My story involves aliens who talk in Internet memes.
The book is available in paperback and ebook!
My story is available for free on my blog!
Jesus and Dave
It's been a year since the second coming of Jesus, and Dave the atheist is Not Amused by all of his religious relatives flaunting their selfies with their lord and savior. But when Jesus comes to his door (flanked by two be-tentacled angles) and says He needs an atheist, Dave reluctantly teams up with the son of God to help save the world.
Free to read online at Diabolical Plots! Also available in Diabolical Plots: Year Four, an ebook.
Squatchin'
When rival bigfoot hunters -- one studious and scientific, the other a viral YouTube star -- find themselves in the same forest one night, they discover something far more interesting than the elusive sasquatch... (Spoiler: it's each other.)
Available in digital from SERIAL!
Also available for free on my blog!
Anthologies
Growing Up Creepy
It's been a year since the second coming of Jesus, and Dave the atheist is Not Amused by all of his religious relatives flaunting their selfies with their lord and savior. But when Jesus comes to his door (flanked by two be-tentacled angles) and says He needs an atheist, Dave reluctantly teams up with the son of God to help save the world.
Free to read online at Diabolical Plots! Also available in Diabolical Plots: Year Four, an ebook.
Squatchin'
When rival bigfoot hunters -- one studious and scientific, the other a viral YouTube star -- find themselves in the same forest one night, they discover something far more interesting than the elusive sasquatch... (Spoiler: it's each other.)
Available in digital from SERIAL!
Also available for free on my blog!
Anthologies
Growing Up Creepy
Excerpts from an anonymously written article tell a metaphorical "gifted kid to burned out adult pipeline" tale.
Art-ificial Intelligence
A young girl living in a world where creativity has been relegated to machines discovers an old factory… And imagination…
Savior Of The Crying Hemlocks
With the help of her kid and a legendary creature from Pennsylvania folklore, one woman endeavors to save the last ancient hemlock trees from poachers
Available in Sunshine Superhighway: Solar Sailings!
Untamed
In this B movie inspired retelling of Taming Of The Shrew, an autistic woman who turns into a killer shrew when she gets emotional finds a unique way to deal with the latest gaslighting scientist to come to the island.
Available in Greater Than His Nature!
*Blood And Iron
An autistic forensic pathologist investigates a dead fairy and discovers something even more interesting.
Available in Rosalind's Siblings!
This anthology was nominated for a 2024 Lamada Award
Wardrobe Of The Worlds
An autistic girl and an army general who has watched too much Project Runway scramble to make the perfect dress to represent Earth at an intergalactic conference.
Available in Soul Jar!
Welcome Mat, Five Stars
The tragic story of a couple who unknowingly move into a community of vampires, as told through online product reviews.
Available in The Monsters Next Door!
And Let It Go
The true story of how the world ended, as told by the woman who kinda sorta is to blame. But really, it's not her fault. You see, aliens landed on her birthday…
Available in Yay! They're Here!
Transfer, Emphasis On Trans
It was just supposed to be a temporary body swap, but now a trans man find himself stuck in the perfect body—and a murder investigation.
Available in Mirrors Reflecting Shadows, benefiting The Trevor Project!
The Horsepower Whisperer
Katie should be practicing her dance routine, seeing as her continuing the tradition was mama's last wish. But the farm's in trouble and she thinks she knows how to help: by fixing up a broken down mechanical horse named Silver Gregory.
The Cracking Of The Cosmic Egg
Cosmic horror and transgender metaphors set to the tune of Drops Of Jupiter.
People Like Us
In a monochrome world where standing out gets you in trouble, a psychopomp uses their power to take transgender people to the underworld and bring them back in the new bodies. But what happens when they meet the brightest non-binary child they've ever seen… who doesn't want to hide their rainbow glow?
Available in paperback and digital in We Deserve To Exist!
Muse
Inspiration comes in pill form, but can a musician and recovering addict trust that it’s really not as addictive as they claim? Or maybe her girlfriend is all the inspirational she's ever needed.
The Flatwoods Monster And The Little Green Men
In 1952 West Virginia, a little monster turns herself into a local legend to protect her people—and to become the fabulous creature she's always wanted to be.
Summer Of The Blue Tide
Three young adults on a futuristic Martha's Vineyard search for a solution when their famous bioluminescent waves, a staple of the local economy, threaten to destroy the entire ecosystem.
The Beast Of Primordial Fire
Primitive human society is being terrorized by a beast; anyone who sees her is cursed to death. But to save her mother, one little girl decides to challenge that.
Barely Even Friends To Lovers
In this modern retelling of Beauty And The Beast, a dorky fanfic writer find herself instantly attracted to a beastly man, and instantly disappointed when he turns into an attractive man. Is there anything they have in common?
Available in Strangely Funny IX!
Other Peoples Tsunamis
A butterfly flaps its wings, and hundreds of people dance themselves to exhaustion in 1518. That’s chaos theory for you.
Available in The Dancing Plague!
The Endless Night At Promontory Summit
It's 1869, the Golden Spike has just completed the Transcontinental Railroad, and young Lysette is wildly in love with her girlfriend Jody. Everything is perfect, until the damn demons make her relive Jody’s death over and over and over…
Available in Queer Weird West Tales!
Peaches, Wishes, And Something Like Motherhood
When a baby alien miraculously finds his way into their life, a lesbian couple lives out their dreams of motherhood during an alien invasion, including learning to let go.
Available in Let's Get Weird!
Davy Bones and the Domestication of the Dutchman
In a flooded, post human world, a crew of pirate dogs encounter a ghostly wolf and help her find peace.
Available in Pirating Pups!
Don't Cry For Me Argentinosaurus
Having grown up in a parallel world full of dinosaurs, a young woman struggles to find her place in the real world, and her decisions might have disastrous consequences for the home she left behind…
Available in The Mesozoic Reader, Volume One!
Set The Night To Music
In a cyberpunk world run by corporations, queer radio pirates use music to take back control of the city's power grid.
Available in paperback and digital in Triangulation: Energy!
Seven Things I Learned Traveling Through Space With A Genetically Engineered Lesbian Peahen
It is basically exactly what it sounds like. It is very silly and very gay.
Available in paperback and digital in Bridge To Elsewhere!
The Moon Rabbit
In a society with a gendered magic system, a trans child fears going through the wrong puberty. But maybe they can find a solution by helping a magical rabbit escape the Emperor and get back to the moon…
Available in digital and paperback in Prismatic Dreams!
Handwritten Recipes: Excerpts From A Post-Apocalyptic Cookbook
Family stories intertwine with a journey across the end of the world in this story told in recipes.
Available in digital, paperback, and hardcover in Grandpa's Deep-Space Diner!
Spider Horse
Sleipnir, the eight-legged horse from Norse mythology, goes on an adventure to find his mom, who he believes is a giant spider.
Available in paperback and digital in Untethered!
**The Princess and the P. Sativum
On the advice of an anxious plant, a transgender witch investigates a royal scheme and maybe redefines what it means to be a princess.
*Available in paperback, e-book, and audiobook, in the anthology Xenocultivars: Stories Of Queer Growth, one of Tor.com’s Reviewers’ Choice Best Books Of The Year 2022!
*Xenocultivars: Stories Of Queer Growth is also a Lambda Literary Award nominee for best anthology 2023!
The Kraken Heist
An awkward trans man, a pretty girl with a secret, and a sea monster named Timothy star in this steampunk adventure.
Available in paperback and digital in Runs Like Clockwork!
Just One Last Dance
That's not your dance partner, that's a cosmic horror creature who is stealing your youth!
Available in digital in 99 Tiny Terrors!
Sixty Percent
It's the worst drought in recent history, and nature is getting thirsty. Content warning for bees that want to drink your tears.
Available in digital and paperback in Chlorophobia, an eco-horror anthology!
O Howly Night
The littlest hellhound finally gets to join Odin on the Wild Hunt, but when they catch a spirit on his way home for Christmas, Bella must choose between running with the Hunt like she always wanted or helping him give his family the Christmas they deserve.
Available in paperback and digital in Home for the Howlidays! (And check out ‘Twas the Night of the Howlidays, performed by the authors and adapted—by me!—from A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement C. Moore.)
Cinder
After her princess rescuing app date doesn't go as it should, a disabled princess in a modern fairytale world decides to save herself and platonically teams up with another disabled princess to find purpose in the world.
Available in digital and paperback in Common Bonds.
Joan of Archaeopteryx
When one of her hallucinations turns out to be a real girl riding a real dinosaur, Joan becomes part of a war to a parallel universe. It's basically John of Arc but with dinosaurs.
Available in digital and paperback in Apex: World Of Dinosaurs.
Episode 51: Earth
Meet Teagan. Teagan is a lesbian with too many freckles, too many opinions, and not enough diplomacy. She was supposed to get married today, but they had a fight so now she's drunk. And accidentally the star of an alien nature documentary. And also maybe our planet’s only hope for survival. Available in paperback and digital in We’re The Weird Aliens!
The Real Jurassic Park Was The Gender Dysphoria We Felt Along The Way
I'm pretty sure there's nothing I can say about this story that the title doesn't already convey. It is body horror and deals with gender dysphoria, so keep that in mind. It is available in the digital body horror anthology Twisted Anatomy.
Of Dragon Genes And Pretty Girls
Living on a new planet means we need a new calendar system, so the people living on a generation ship decide to run a new race to determine the order of the zodiac—and, by extension, which signs are compatible with each other. Only problem is, they don't have a dragon. To ensure she’s compatible with her girlfriend, one woman decides she'll just genetically engineer one.
Available in digital and paperback in Hear Me Roar!
Loaners
A hopeful story about human perseverance during the pandemic… as told by anxious library books who are worried they will never be read again. Available in paper back and digital in Sunshine Superhighway.
Will-o-the-Walmart
Nature might be extinct, but there's one little nature spirit left, and it's haunting the garden center of a Walmart. And that might be a good thing, even if people are going missing between the Christmas trees, because sometimes you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Also, the story is gay. In case that wasn't clear.
Will-o-the-Walmart is available in paperback and e-book in Triangulation: Extinction.
Iris, Like The Song
Someone has stolen 1998, and this wouldn't be so bad if 1998 wasn't like, the best year ever AND the year Iris is from. In this story filled with 90s references, a queer time pirate sets off on an adventure to find 1998, and the girl of her dreams. Available in paperback and e-book as part of Tales From The Pirate's Cove
The Girl With Silver Feet
Seven Sisters
A story about loss, hope, and what happens when the Pleiades star cluster fall to earth on the night a teenage girl loses her father. Available in paperback and digital in Triangulation: Dark Skies!
The Repatriation Heist
An autistic witch travels through time to rescue a stolen spirit about to be auctioned off in Hotel Stormcove, one of many stories this hotel has to offer.Available in paperback and digital in Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove!
The Thunderbird Photo
A dorky cryptozoologist searches for a giant bird, but finds a memory-altering conspiracy instead.
Available in Hidden Histories, in digital and paperback!
My Fair Cavelady
In this retelling of My Fair Lady, autistic teen inventor Henrietta Higgins uses technology to cure Eliza, a cloned Neanderthal, of autism. But is it right to fix someone who isn't really broken?
Available in paperback and ebook in Brave New Girls: Adventures of Gals and Gizmos, proceeds of which will be donated to a scholarship fund through the Society of Women Engineers.
Nesting
Relationships are hard, especially when your beloved is an alien with peculiar ideas about romance.
Available in paperback and digital in Multiverse: Shoreline of Infinity International Sci-fi Poetry Anthology. Also available on my blog.
In this Wizard of Oz retelling, a young autistic girl finds herself the accidental leader of a revolution on an alien planet. With her robot pals, technological know-how, and some insider information from her stolen prosthetic legs, she has everything she needs to take down the witch. Available in paperback and e-book in Brave New Girls: Tales Of Girls Who Tech And Tinker!
The Queen
A young woman leaves her safe haven (an amusement park's World Of The Future area) and treks through an apocalyptic wasteland on a quest to save the bumblebees and, by extension, the world. And the bee is named Beeyoncé. Because of course she is. Available in paperback and digital in Welcome To The Alpacalypse.
A young woman leaves her safe haven (an amusement park's World Of The Future area) and treks through an apocalyptic wasteland on a quest to save the bumblebees and, by extension, the world. And the bee is named Beeyoncé. Because of course she is. Available in paperback and digital in Welcome To The Alpacalypse.
Not Like Other Ghouls
Adele, an autistic zombie with attention deficit disorder, thinks there's something wrong with her because she doesn't want to turn people into zombies. Logically, she decides to try dating a human. Hilarity, and possibly romance, ensues. Available in paper back and digital in Strangely Funny VII!
Write Me A Soul
A choose your own adventure story about found family, the power of connecting with another person, and soft girls with sharp teeth. Now available in paperback and e-book in Community Of Magic Pens!
Chen D'Angelo and the Chinese-Italian Dragon
When a young girl's moms are in danger of losing their Chinese-Italian pizzeria, she decides the best way to drum up customers, naturally, is to make them believe in dragons again. And did I mention they are on a spaceship? Available in paperback and e-book in Dragon Bike!
The Doll In The Ripped Universe
A queer and autistic story about a kid who ripped a hole in the universe. I can't say much more without spoiling it, but it is a very personal story to me. Not necessarily the story itself, the way it's written. The way the character interacts with the world.
Available in paperback and digital in Spoon Knife 4: A Neurodivergent Guide to Spacetime.
The House Of Lonely Vines
A flash fiction piece about a house that built itself from the ashes of tragedy. Content warning for mentions of death by fire, bad things happening to children.
Available in paperback into digital in Crypt Gnats: Horror You've Been Itching To Read. Content warning: the book is full of horror stories involving graveyards, cremation, and other death related topics.
Third Rule Is: Don't Talk To Aliens
Aliens are coming, and they're going to destroy Earth. Nothing we can do about it (Or is there?) except to decide what punk rock song will be the last song earth ever hears. Available in A Punk Rock Future.
Oil and Ivory
In a futuristic Greenland, Meri, a pregnant Inuit woman, is tasked with guiding endangered narwhals safely through their migration route. But when an oil spill threatens the ocean, she will have to team up with a clueless white boy from the oil rig in order to save everyone in this story originally titled "Ferngully But With Narwhals." Oil and Ivory is available in paperback and e-book, in Solarpunk Winters! Also available in Italian!
*Names
It’s hard being autistic in the old west, especially when the only way to defeat what supernatural creature is by looking in the eye.
Adele, an autistic zombie with attention deficit disorder, thinks there's something wrong with her because she doesn't want to turn people into zombies. Logically, she decides to try dating a human. Hilarity, and possibly romance, ensues. Available in paper back and digital in Strangely Funny VII!
Write Me A Soul
A choose your own adventure story about found family, the power of connecting with another person, and soft girls with sharp teeth. Now available in paperback and e-book in Community Of Magic Pens!
Chen D'Angelo and the Chinese-Italian Dragon
When a young girl's moms are in danger of losing their Chinese-Italian pizzeria, she decides the best way to drum up customers, naturally, is to make them believe in dragons again. And did I mention they are on a spaceship? Available in paperback and e-book in Dragon Bike!
The Doll In The Ripped Universe
A queer and autistic story about a kid who ripped a hole in the universe. I can't say much more without spoiling it, but it is a very personal story to me. Not necessarily the story itself, the way it's written. The way the character interacts with the world.
Available in paperback and digital in Spoon Knife 4: A Neurodivergent Guide to Spacetime.
The House Of Lonely Vines
A flash fiction piece about a house that built itself from the ashes of tragedy. Content warning for mentions of death by fire, bad things happening to children.
Available in paperback into digital in Crypt Gnats: Horror You've Been Itching To Read. Content warning: the book is full of horror stories involving graveyards, cremation, and other death related topics.
Third Rule Is: Don't Talk To Aliens
Aliens are coming, and they're going to destroy Earth. Nothing we can do about it (Or is there?) except to decide what punk rock song will be the last song earth ever hears. Available in A Punk Rock Future.
Oil and Ivory
In a futuristic Greenland, Meri, a pregnant Inuit woman, is tasked with guiding endangered narwhals safely through their migration route. But when an oil spill threatens the ocean, she will have to team up with a clueless white boy from the oil rig in order to save everyone in this story originally titled "Ferngully But With Narwhals." Oil and Ivory is available in paperback and e-book, in Solarpunk Winters! Also available in Italian!
*Names
It’s hard being autistic in the old west, especially when the only way to defeat what supernatural creature is by looking in the eye.
*Available in Nothing Without Us, a 2020 Aurora Award nominee for best related work!
Seven Sisters
A story about loss, hope, and what happens when the Pleiades star cluster fall to earth on the night a teenage girl loses her father. Available in paperback and digital in Triangulation: Dark Skies!
The Repatriation Heist
An autistic witch travels through time to rescue a stolen spirit about to be auctioned off in Hotel Stormcove, one of many stories this hotel has to offer.Available in paperback and digital in Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove!
The Thunderbird Photo
A dorky cryptozoologist searches for a giant bird, but finds a memory-altering conspiracy instead.
Available in Hidden Histories, in digital and paperback!
My Fair Cavelady
In this retelling of My Fair Lady, autistic teen inventor Henrietta Higgins uses technology to cure Eliza, a cloned Neanderthal, of autism. But is it right to fix someone who isn't really broken?
Available in paperback and ebook in Brave New Girls: Adventures of Gals and Gizmos, proceeds of which will be donated to a scholarship fund through the Society of Women Engineers.
The Leximancer's Rebellion
Hope is a leximancer, someone who can make magic by writing. She's also illiterate, so she'll have to find another way to magic away this alien invasion.
Available in paperback and digital in Battling in All Her Finery.
The Cemetery Cat
Pawdrey Hepburn is queen of the cats who live in the cemetery and purr to keep the ghosts asleep. But when her favorite ghost is woken up by ghost hunters, it's up to Pawdrey to help him finish his unfinished business so he can rest... and maybe she has some unfinished business to her own.
Available in paperback and digital in From A Cat's View!
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My Rumplestiltskin retelling about a disabled girl, her assistance robot, and a factory that turns gold into circuits for war machines,
Proceeds from sales of Brave New Girls: Tales of Heroines Who Hack will be donated to a scholarship fund through the Society of Women Engineers. The third in a series of anthologies. Available in ebook and paperback!
Riot of the Wind and Sun
In the subterranean Australian town of Coober Pedy, where two young girls have a simple goal: get their favorite band to come and play a concert. Read about my real-life inspiration.
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers is available in paperback and ebook here.
Always, Always
A tale of distrust, sacrifice, and assassins set in a futuristic Australia. Ostensibly the same world as Riot of the Wind and Sun, but much darker.
When You're Strange is available in paperback and digital.
Scrapefoot
One of twenty sci-fi fairytale retellings featured in the Circuits & Slippers anthology edited by Jaylee James. Scrapefoot is my take on Goldilocks, and my first publication ever! When a young girl finds herself in a mysterious cottage and put through a series of three tests by ferocious, shadowy figures, can she sort out her real memories from the false ones they want her to believe?
Available in paperback and digital.
Christmas Magic
Mrs. Claus is a media darling fashionista in a rivalry with Duchess Kate... oh, and she's also an alien. But is she here to save Christmas or destroy it?
Available in Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairy Tale They Say is available in paperback and digital.
Poetry
Available in paperback and digital in Battling in All Her Finery.
The Cemetery Cat
Pawdrey Hepburn is queen of the cats who live in the cemetery and purr to keep the ghosts asleep. But when her favorite ghost is woken up by ghost hunters, it's up to Pawdrey to help him finish his unfinished business so he can rest... and maybe she has some unfinished business to her own.
Available in paperback and digital in From A Cat's View!
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My Rumplestiltskin retelling about a disabled girl, her assistance robot, and a factory that turns gold into circuits for war machines,
Proceeds from sales of Brave New Girls: Tales of Heroines Who Hack will be donated to a scholarship fund through the Society of Women Engineers. The third in a series of anthologies. Available in ebook and paperback!
Riot of the Wind and Sun
In the subterranean Australian town of Coober Pedy, where two young girls have a simple goal: get their favorite band to come and play a concert. Read about my real-life inspiration.
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers is available in paperback and ebook here.
Always, Always
A tale of distrust, sacrifice, and assassins set in a futuristic Australia. Ostensibly the same world as Riot of the Wind and Sun, but much darker.
When You're Strange is available in paperback and digital.
Scrapefoot
One of twenty sci-fi fairytale retellings featured in the Circuits & Slippers anthology edited by Jaylee James. Scrapefoot is my take on Goldilocks, and my first publication ever! When a young girl finds herself in a mysterious cottage and put through a series of three tests by ferocious, shadowy figures, can she sort out her real memories from the false ones they want her to believe?
Available in paperback and digital.
Christmas Magic
Mrs. Claus is a media darling fashionista in a rivalry with Duchess Kate... oh, and she's also an alien. But is she here to save Christmas or destroy it?
Available in Mrs. Claus: Not the Fairy Tale They Say is available in paperback and digital.
Poetry
An Open Letter To The Legislators Forcing Me To Become A Kaiju
(It's really about restricting access to puberty blockers.)
Available in the Spring 2023 issue of Illumen!
Fine Print
A little bit Frankenstein, a little bit Rocky Horror, a lot transgender.
Available in the Spring 2023 issue of Illumen!
Your Light Was On
Also known as "Mothman tells you a Norm Macdonald joke."
Available in the Spring 2023 issue of Illumen!
Unboxing
Pandora has a YouTube channel where she unboxes things.
Available in the Spring 2023 issue of Illumen!
Footprints
A short poem about the people left behind when someone goes through a time portal.
Available in the Spring 2023 issue of Illumen!
The Dog Who Walked with Zombies
A rhyming poem about a Very Good Dog and her zombified master.
Available in Dark Ink in paperback and ebook or watch me read it here!
A rhyming poem about a Very Good Dog and her zombified master.
Available in Dark Ink in paperback and ebook or watch me read it here!
Nesting
Relationships are hard, especially when your beloved is an alien with peculiar ideas about romance.
Available in paperback and digital in Multiverse: Shoreline of Infinity International Sci-fi Poetry Anthology. Also available on my blog.
La Voce to Me
A poem about gender dysphoria, being disabled, and never having seen The Little Mermaid.
Cheering For The Dinosaurs
In which I use Jurassic Park metaphors to talk about being disabled, living with abusive parents, and realizing I’m not exactly a girl.
There's No Special Ed At Hogwarts
An essay about escaping into fantasy worlds, and coming to terms with the fact that you're not always welcome there, either. Available to read for free online at Breath & Shadow!
Friendship
A very personal essay about making friends as an autistic person.
Free to read online in Unbroken.
A very personal essay about making friends as an autistic person.
Free to read online in Unbroken.
How Camp Cretaceous Connects To The Jurassic World Canon
In this article for Den of Geek, I analyze how the Netflix original series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous fits in with – and influences – the rest of the franchise. Read it at Den of Geek!
Camp Cretaceous Season Two Ending Explained
In this Den of Geek article, I talk about how Camp Cretaceous wraps up its second season. Check it out!
Camp Cretaceous Reveals The Real Monsters Of Jurassic Park
Another article for Den of Geek. This time, I discuss the franchise as a whole, and explain why humans are the real monsters. Read it here!
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous Season Three What To Expect
Den of Geek let me speculate about what I think will happen if the Netflix series gets a third season. Read my theories here!
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous Season Three Easter Eggs And References
Den of Geek asked me to play "Spot the Jurassic Park reference" in the latest season of the Netflix series. I might have missed one or two, but I still won because I love writing these articles for them. Check it out here!
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