Bespoke
(Embodied Exegesis Anthology, August 2024) A disgruntled high-fashion body-maker takes one last job in pursuit of a daring magnum opus.
Fire Puzzle
(Two Hour Transport Anthology 2, August 2024) A transdimensional being develops a dangerous addiction to a simple game: recursively editing human history to stave off global thermonuclear war.
Doctor Souvenir
(Beneath Ceaseless Skies, January 2024) In a deathless utopian bubble universe, a misfit combs through millions of lifetimes of discarded memories in search of the ultimate forgotten secret: a means of escape.
Being Quicksilver
(Luminescent Machinations Anthology, August 2023) Unwitting conscripts into a new kind of war find themselves instead on a strangely joyous journey of self-discovery.
Space Pirate Queen of the Ten Billion Utopias
(Lightspeed, November 2021) A self-exile from our universe finds better worlds lie just an interdimensional trainhop away.
Deep Music
(Clarkesworld, January 2021) Between yesterday's heartbreak and tomorrow's brewing trouble, a well-dressed woman ekes out a living wrangling mysterious, cute little blobs of animate water.
Champions of Water War
(Glitter and Ashes Anthology, October 2020) When four contestants fight in deadly cage matches for access to water, a secret love affair starts a revolution.
The Liberation of Ghost City
(Fireside Quarterly, June 2020) Minutes before her execution, a visitor to a brutal penal colony offers strange transcendence to the inmates.
The Last Stellar Death Metal Opera
(Escape Pod, September 2019) In a deathless far future, a lone woman sets out to save the soul of humanity -- by dying spectacularly.
A Handful of Sky
(Beneath Ceaseless Skies, June 2019) In a world of magic-infused clothing where the well-dressed rule, an aging tailor sets out on a mission to sew the fabric of the sky.
Mulligan Prime
(Two Hour Transport Anthology, May 2019) (Out of print) A rootless traveler roams the multiverse in a tortured quest to meet his unrealized better self.
The Curse of the Octopodes
(Daily Science Fiction, April 2019) When a man receives a dire warning from an octopus, utopian abundance is cast in a sinister light.
The Wordless Age
(Galaxy's Edge, January 2019) When all language is privatized and one must pay by the word in order to speak, a word broker sets out to find his estranged sister.
The Hyperheels Devour
(Geek Out! Anthology, December 2018) When a lovestruck scientist invents shoes that make the wearer shorter, a spatial mishap threatens to swallow the world.
At the Crossroads
(Bikes in Space Volume 5, October 2018) An interdimensional bicycle race becomes a new front in the eternal battle against Space Nazis.
Dandelion
(Clarkesworld, September 2018) An extrasolar artifact becomes a scientific legacy spanning three generations, with implications for the origins of life and the future of humankind.
Apotheosis
(Cockroach Conservatory, Volume 1, August 2018) When a dream-advertisement broadcasting machine runs amok, the scientist who created it makes a last-ditch effort to save the world from a sinister newborn god.
The Cool Kids
(Daily Science Fiction, April 2018) Life lessons are learned when a vampire begins to turn human again.
From An Interview with the Famed Roller Sara Zephyr Cain
(Bikes in Space Volume 2, May 2014) When the world collapses, a trans woman makes a living and a reputation as a bicycle adventurer.
This Must Be the Place
(Strange Horizons, February 2009) When a dejected corporate executive meets a nostalgic time traveler intent on spending the rest of his life in 1984, strange sparks fly.