Short Fiction

  • The World’s Revolution, Vol. 2 2023

    Clive is working on a secret project to draw magical energies from the Earth when he goes missing. Landon, his husband, will have to work with Clive’s best friend, Douglas, to track him down, recover the stolen tech, and hope that SustainAble isn’t able to stop them in the process. This story builds from the collectively-imagined world from the first volume and serves as a prequel to my novel, but can be read as a standalone.

  • Tree and Stone: Queer as F* Vol. 2 November 2022

    What will it take for queer love stories to end happily instead of in tragedy? Charlie and Ell battle their way through a rogue-like Philadelphia to take on homophobes, unbridled bachelorette parties, and ultimately the entire city. Will they ever find their way out of this progressive death labyrinth?

  • Little Blue Marble 16 Sept 2022

    Here you’ll find some advice for expecting plarents from the one-and-only Earth.

  • Utopia Science Fiction Magazine August/September 2022

    Podcast Recording

    Having fled climate crises and his family, Charlie gets inducted into the Solar Bears. But first he has to pass the test: will he survive the plunge into the flooded I-676 that bisects Philadelphia? Inspired by last year’s flooding that left the expressway submerged.

  • Daily Science Fiction 30 June 2022

    Living in a recently colonized world, the narrator navigates the seemingly minor assaults on him and his people, a humanoid species with a delicate wattle trained to detect even the faintest shifts in the atmospheric scents. Will they notice when he prepares to shelter from the coming storm?

  • Gaia Awakens: The World’s Revolution Vol. 1

    In the mid-2040s, Imelda has been working for years to rehabilitate the abandoned golf course that was built on the site of a former strip mine in southern West Virginia with a diverse group displaced people. All had been going well until the Southern States of America sent them an eviction notice. Now Imelda and the great folks at the Bent Greens will have to rally to defend their home and their chosen family, and if they’re lucky, the Earth may just lend them a hand.

    A Climate Fiction story in the anthology The World’s Revolution: Gaia Awakens. It features stories from sixteen authors all told within the same exciting CliFi universe as my novel. Can be read in any order.

  • Metaphorosis May 2021

    Podcast Recording

    Charlie, a queer language professor, is feeling burned out. They’ve dedicated their life to teaching Leiprenese—the language of the alien race that colonized Earth in their youth—to aspiring college kids. But on the eve of receiving tenure and promotion, they and their mentor Zorah start to question whether they’ll ever really be rewarded with the ultimate prize: retirement on the Renner’s home world.

    A science fiction story about burn out, achievement culture, and the power of pronouns.

  • Boned 9 April 2019

    Boned Every Which Way 2019 (Reprint 2021)

    The General, smoking while on oxygen, spends all day sitting in her recliner, taking fastidious notes on the neighborhood she sees through the window. Her grandson labors to build everything she needs around her until so she never needs to leave. Will their relationship survive her undrateful demands?

  • Metaworker 31 December 2018

    A script for the commerical advertising Obliviol, a once-a-day pill for Drug Advertisement-induced Agitation, Anxiety, Apprehension, and Horror, or AAAH.

  • Here Comes Everyone. “The Tomorrow Issue,” Vol. 7, Issue 1 (2018)

    Reprinted in Metastellar: Speculative Fiction and Beyond 18 June 2021

    By tomorrow the remaining evidence of the life of Mabel will be erased and she will no longer exist. Will the narrator sit back and watch, as he did with his former partner, or will he too finally be called to action?

  • My Utopia: A Collection of Creative Writing, edited by Ruzbeh Babei. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

    Having escaped from their robotic captors, will the main character find a community in the underground disco?

  • Punchnel’s 2016 (website defunct, sadly)

    Co-Authored with Katherine Ann Davis

    This is the schedule for the orientation events for new taxi drivers in Gotham City.