Stories
2024
“Everything in the Garden Is Lovely,” Apex Magazine
A woman gets sentenced to transform into a garden.
2023
“Bird-Girl Builds a Machine,” Clarkesworld Magazine
A girl helps her mother build a mysterious machine.
✩ Locus Recommended Reading List
2022
“A Girl of Nails and Teeth,” Nightmare Magazine
A mother meticulously collects her daughter’s fingernail clippings.
✩ Selected as a Notable Story in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy
”Inheritance,” Analog Science Fiction
Two sisters disagree over who should inherit their dying mother’s memories.
✩ Locus Award Finalist
✩ Anthologized in Year’s Best Science Fiction on Earth
“A Monster in the Shape of a Boy,” Apex Magazine
A monster-slayer’s son meets a monster identical to himself.
✩ Locus Award Finalist
✩ Anthologized in Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror
“How to Make a Man Love You,” Fantasy Magazine
A man realizes his marriage hinges on a dark secret.
✩ Selected as a Notable Story in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy
“Vocabulary Lesson,” The Bureau Dispatch
An immigrant mother watches her son study for his vocabulary test.
2021
“Eating Bitterness,” The Dark Magazine
A girl grows up in a world where all women are born with two mouths.
✩ Ladies of Horror Fiction Award Finalist
✩ Bram Stoker Award Recommended Reading List
“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.