Stories

Vote in the Ignyte Awards!

I’m thrilled that one of my stories, “The Octopus Dreams of Personhood,” is a finalist for the Ignyte. Voting is open to the public until August 16.

See the finalists

2026

“Immigrant Girl from the End of the World,” Uncanny
^{A family escapes the apocalypse by immigrating to 2004.}

Reviews

^{✩ Recommended by Marissa Lingen}
^{✩ Reviewed by Tar Vol}
^{✩ Reviewed by Naomi Kanakia}
^{✩ Reviewed by @mossyshadows}

2025

“~~Brooklyn~~ Beijing,” Uncanny
^{A new city migrates across the East River.}

Reviews

^{✩ Recommended by Myna Chang}

^{✩ Recommended in the Bad Grammar Bulletin}

^{✩ Recommended on Turn & Work}

^{✩ Recommended by Marissa Lingen}

^{✩ Reviewed by The Skiffy and Fanty Show}
^{✩ Reviewed in Locus Magazine}

“Pandora’s Formula,” Strange Horizons
^{Two women enjoy their honeymoon at the end of the world.}

Anthologies

^{✩ Included in Locus Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, edited by Jonathan Strahan}

Reviews

^{✩ Recommended on Locus Recommended Reading List}

^{✩ Reviewed in Locus Magazine}
^{✩ Recommended by Charles Payseur}
^{✩ Reviewed by Kathleen Jennings
✩ Recommended on The Bad Grammar Bulletin
✩ Reviewed in Tangent Online
✩ Reviewed by @desantoos
✩ Reviewed in Night of the Hats}

“The Octopus Dreams of Personhood,” Diabolical Plots
^{An octopus tries to experience being a person.}
^✩ ^{A Finalist for the 2026 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Short Story}

Reviews

^{✩ Recommended on Locus Recommended Reading List}
^{✩ Reviewed in Locus Magazine}

^{✩ Reviewed by Tar Vol}

^{✩ Reviewed by Kathleen Jennings
✩ Reviewed in Tangent Online}

^{✩ Reviewed by AnaMaria Curtis}

^{✩ Recommended by Charles Payseur}
^{✩ Recommended in Words for Worlds
✩ Reviewed on Mhoontown Goods}

2024

“Everything in the Garden Is Lovely,” Apex
^{A woman gets sentenced to transform into a garden.}
^✩ ^{A Finalist for the 2025 World Fantasy Award}

Reviews

^✩ ^{Recommended on Reactor’s Must-Read Short Speculative Fiction}
^✩ ^{Recommended on Ephiny Gale’s 2024 Short Fiction Recommendations}
^✩ ^{Recommended on Carlie St George’s Favorite Short Stories 2024}
^✩ ^{Recommended on Tar Vol’s 2024 Recommended Reading List}
^✩ ^{Recommended on Tangent Online 2024 Recommended Reading List}
^✩ ^{Recommended by Renan Bernardo}
^✩ ^{Reviewed at Tangent Online}
^✩ ^{Reviewed by Elliott Dunstan}
^✩ ^{Reviewed by Tar Vol}
^✩ ^{Reviewed by Ana Maria Curtis}
^✩ ^{Discussed in The Speculative Fiction Workshop}
^✩ ^{Reviewed on TikTok by @she.is.a.robot}
^✩ ^{Reviewed by Alex Struver}

2023

“Bird-Girl Builds a Machine,” Clarkesworld
^{A girl helps her mother build a mysterious machine.}
^✩ ^{Longlisted for the 2024 BSFA Awards}

Anthologies

^✩ ^{Included in The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time, edited by Allan Kaster}

Reviews

^✩ ^{Recommended on Locus Recommended Reading List}
^{✩ Recommended on Tangent Online 2023 Recommended Reading List}
^{✩ Recommended on Ephiny Gale’s 2023 Short Fiction Recommendations}
^{✩ Recommended on A.C. Wise’s Favorite Short Fiction of 2023}
^{✩ Reviewed in Locus Magazine}
^{✩ Reviewed in Tangent Online}
^✩ ^{Reviewed by Tar Vol}
^{✩ Reviewed by Soh Kam Yung}
^{✩ Reviewed by Bogi Takács}
^{✩ Reviewed by Howard G. Cornett}
^{✩ Reviewed in SFRevu}
^{✩ Reviewed by Bonnie McDaniel}

2022

”Inheritance,” Analog Science Fiction
^{Two sisters clash over who should inherit their dying mother’s memories.}
^✩ ^{A Finalist for the 2023 Locus Award for Best Short Story}

Anthologies

^{✩ Included in The Best Science Fiction of the Year, edited by Neil Clarke}
^{✩ Included in Year’s Best Science Fiction on Earth, edited by Allan Kaster}

Reviews

^✩ ^{Recommended on Locus Recommended Reading List}
^✩ ^{Reviewed in Locus Magazine}
^✩ ^{Reviewed in Tangent Online}
^✩ ^{Reviewed by SFRevu}
^✩ ^{Reviewed by Short SF}
^✩ ^{Reviewed by Joe Stech}

Translations

^✩ ^{Translated into Spanish by Laura Morán Iglesias} ^{for Aanuk}

“A Girl of Nails and Teeth,” Nightmare
^{A mother meticulously collects her daughter’s fingernail clippings.}

Anthologies

^{✩ Named as a Notable Story in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by R.F. Kuang}

Reviews

^{✩ Recommended in Book Riot’s “20 Must-Read Horror Short Stories“}
^{✩ Recommended on Lee Murray’s List of Must-Read Asian Horror Writers}
^{✩ Recommended on SF Story of the Day}
^{✩ Reviewed in Locus Online}
^{✩ Reviewed in SFRevu}
^{✩ Reviewed in Tangent Online}

Translations

^{✩ Translated into Spanish} ^{by Aitana Vega Casiano for Voces de lo Insólito}

“A Monster in the Shape of a Boy,” Apex
^{A monster-slayer’s son meets a monster identical to himself.}
^✩ ^{A Finalist for the 2023 Locus Award for Best Short Story}

Anthologies

^{✩ Anthologized in Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, edited by Paula Guran}

Reviews

^✩ ^{Recommended on Locus Recommended Reading List}
^✩ ^{Reviewed in Haven Spec Magazine}
^✩ ^{Reviewed in Tangent Online}
^✩ ^{Reviewed in Grimdark Magazine}
^✩ ^{Reviewed by The Short Story Editor}
^✩ ^{Reviewed by Kathleen Jennings}
^✩ ^{Reviewed by Martin Jones}
^✩ ^{Featured in Episode 6 of Locus Magazine’s Storytellers series}

“How to Make a Man Love You,” Fantasy
^{A man realizes his marriage hinges on a dark secret.}

Anthologies

^{✩ Named as a Notable Story in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by R.F. Kuang}

Reviews

^{✩ Reviewed in Locus Magazine}
^{✩ Reviewed in SFRevu}
^{✩ Reviewed in Tangent Online}
^{✩ Reviewed by Nick Johnson}

“Vocabulary Lesson,” The Bureau Dispatch
^{An immigrant mother watches her son study for his vocabulary test.}
^{✩ A Finalist for the New Millennium Writing Awards}

2021

“Eating Bitterness,” The Dark
^{A girl grows up in a world where all women are born with two mouths.}
^{✩ A Finalist for the 2022 Ladies of Horror Fiction Award}

Reviews

^{✩ Recommended on the HWA Bram Stoker Award Recommended Reading List}
^{✩ Recommended on Carlie St. George’s Recommended Short Fiction 2021}
^{✩ Recommended on Ephiny Gale’s 2021 Story Recommendations}
^{✩ Recommended by The Short Story Editor}
^{✩ Recommended by Reed Mingault}
^{✩ Reviewed by SFRevu}
^{✩ Reviewed by Koji A. Dae}
^{✩ Reviewed by The Library Cryptid}
^{✩ Reviewed by Quick Sips Reviews}
^{✩ Selected by the HOWL Society for their July 2022 book club}

Translations

^✩^{Translated into Spanish by Voces de lo Insólito}

“So We Did,” Daily Science Fiction
^{The gods give us orders, and we obey.}

“A Selkie’s Tale,” TulipTree Review
^{A woman trapped in the modern world yearns for the ocean.}