Solve for X. Luna Station Quarterly, 2025. Academia, engineering, and how it’s honestly pretty soul-crushing sometimes, 7400 words.
The Scientist Does Not Look Back. Escape Pod, 2024. Queer Frankenstein-meets-Orpheus-and-Eurydice unbury-your-gays, 2900 words.
Alternate. Translunar Travelers Lounge, 2023. Disaster sapphics speedrunning romcom tropes, 2400 words.
The Ada Lovelace Finishing School for Young AIs, as Kristina Nelson Kloop, M.A. Ed Asteroid’s Flabbergasting Science Fiction (James Gunn’s Ad Astra), 2022. A new and exciting approach to machine learning. Flash.
This Is Our Get-Along Brainship. Escape Pod, 2022. Brainships, perfectionism, ghosts, and mostly metaphorical (but in one case quite literal) fires, 4800 words.
One and a Half Stars. Baffling Magazine, 2021. Cyborg maintenance and menstrual humor; yep, you read that right. Flash.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Portals at Frank’s Late-Night Starlite Drive-In. It Gets Even Better: Stories of Queer Possibility, 2021. Portal urban fantasy shenanigans and also root beer and auguries of death, 4000 words.
The Snow Queen’s Discount Skate Rental and Half-Off Magical Workings. Toasted Cake, 2020. Put The Snow Queen, Yuri!!! on Ice, and an email starting with “Sorry for the delayed response” in a blender and this is what you get. Flash.
The Ashes of Vivian Firestrike. GlitterShip, audio forthcoming, text available through GlitterShip’s Patreon in the Spring 2020 issue; will be reprinted in We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020. Urban fantasy/humor/true crime podcast, 3400 words.
Tasting Menu. Kaleidotrope, 2020. Food horror, 2100 words.
Make. Daily Science Fiction, 2016. Flash, 1000 words.
You’re a Mile Away and You Have Their Shoes. Issues in Science and Technology, 2016. Psychological horror/near-future science fiction, 5000 words.
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