2027

Four Hands Full, Three Eyes Open (2300 words) - forthcoming Mar 2027
Side Hustle: Horror Stories for Late Capitalism, edited by Mike Phillips
body enhancement / toxic workplaces / postpartum horror

It’s a sun-drenched September day in Lancaster when Rita’s third arm snaps off under the weight of her ten-month-old’s flailing.

2026

Salma in the Vase (1000 words) - forthcoming Sept 2026
hex literary, edited by Daniel Miller
missing person / parallel dimension / melody

The Araki-Jones Sequence (1000 words) - Jun 2026
If There's Anyone Left Volume 6, edited by Jason P. Burnham and C. M. Fields
dystopian / surveillance state / babies

Why does a government agency need to surveil babies? I asked that question too, before I was the one watching them.

Root Words (1000 words) - Mar 2026
Saros Speculative Fiction Issue #5 edited by Ariel Marken Jack
metamorphosis / linguistic detectives

The mass is visible through a borosilicate glass panel, and continues to move, like a great coiling octopus folding in upon itself.

The Dispatches of Dr. Clara Weber and Sgt. Andres Ramírez (1000 words) - Mar 2026
The Sprawl Mag Issue 3.1, co-edited by Mahaila Smith and Libby Graham
envoys / dying fleet / ice planet

envoy1-dispatch8/arrival+43: I’m not sure why, but I was forced to stay in my quarters today. And I’ve been assigned a new intermediary. Something has changed. I’ll try to get answers.

2025

The Wound I Watch (400 words) - Dec 2025
Night Shades Magazine edited by Anna Reser
heritage speaker / moral quandry / wormhole

At dawn, we breach the perimeter to tag each one, disperse them, and make way for the next day’s batch. We arrived at this agreement with no one. And no one has brought us harm, so it continues.

Wonderful (1025 words) - Nov 2025
Inner Worlds Issue 9 edited by Sarah Jackson
sartorial / warm / wistful

Chantilly, bobbin, guipure, knotted, knitted, on and on. Where is the floor? The door? The wiry buttermilk cat that led me into this maze? And how might I leave?